In this post, you can know about How To Format HP Laptop Windows 10 easily. HP Pavilion is a line of consumer-oriented laptop and desktop computers produced by HP Inc. It was introduced in 1995 by erstwhile Hewlett-Packard.

In 1995, HP introduced the Pavilion PC, an IBM-compatible computer of the desktop type, which marked the company’s introduction into the home-computing market. Dave Packard published The HP Way, a book which chronicled the rise of Hewlett-Packard and gave consumers insight into its business practices, culture and management style. HP also produced a low-cost, high-speed infrared transceiver that allowed wireless data exchange in a range of portable computing applications; these included telephones, computers, printers, cash registers, automatic teller machines, and digital cameras.

How to format HP laptop in Windows 10 securely?

Two ways are available below in reformatting hard drive of HP laptop. Turn to the first solution if you have a Windows installation disc in hand. Also, you can refer to the second one to learn how to format HP laptop in Windows 7 without CD, for instance. Let’s get to know them one by one.

Note: these two operations will cause data loss and system unbootable on HP laptop hard drive. Please back up important files to cloud storage or external drive in advance if necessary.

How to format HP laptop with installation disc?

In the first place, shut down your HP laptop and insert the installation disc.

• Boot up your HP laptop from the installation disc. To do that, you may need to change boot order in BIOS.

• Click Repair your computer in the screen of Install now after two “Next” clicks.

• Press Shift + F10 to start command prompt.

• Type disk part and press Enter at the prompt, and then type the following commands successively and press Enter after each input.
  • List disk
  • select disk n (where n is the disk number of the hard drive you want to format)
  • clean
  • exit

• To format system drive only, input these commands instead:
  • list disk
  • select disk n (where n is the disk number of the hard drive you want to format)
  • list partition
  • select partition m (where m is the volume number of the system drive)
  • format fs=ntfs quick
  • exit

• Wait for the process completes and shut down your computer.

Tips

• You can install Windows operating system with the help of Windows installation disc immediately after formatting the drive, or overwrite the current operating system by installing new Windows OS directly.

It is quite helpful to format hard drive on HP laptop by using the installation disc. However, not all users have an installation disc around. Also, some users may not familiar with command-line operations, which becomes a potential cause for unnecessary data loss. Fortunately, there is another easier way to secure erase HP laptop hard drive. Let’s take a closer look.

How to format HP laptop with USB drive?

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is free partition manager that helps you erase or format HP laptop thoroughly. It allows you to format partition or wipe hard drive in a graphical user interface. It also embeds the technology to secure erase SSD without hurting its lifespan. In addition, if you cannot boot up the laptop successfully, you can use the feature Make Bootable Media on a good condition PC and then do the formatting in WinPE mode. Take formatting HP laptop hard drive with a bootable USB drive for example.

• Prepare a USB drive and plug it into your HP laptop. Insert it to a Windows-based good condition computer if your HP laptop cannot boot.

• Free download, install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard on that computer.

• Click on Make Bootable Media in the left pane. Choose USB drive option in the next page and then click Proceed to start.

Notice: AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard will be pre-installed on the USB drive.

• Shut down your HP laptop (or remove the USB drive from the computer) and then boot the HP laptop from the USB drive. You may need to change boot order as covered before.

• Once log in, you’ll see loaded AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. Right-click the hard drive you want to format and select from the menu to execute.

Wipe Hard Drive: It will delete all partitions and erase all data on the selected hard drive.

• Choose the first option to fill hard drive with zero, if you want to other three wiping methods, upgrade to Professional version.

Delete All Partitions: You have two choices, delete all partitions only, or delete all partitions and wipe all data on the hard drive.

• Click Apply on the toolbar and then proceed in the pop-up window to execute the changes. Then, shut down your laptop.

Tips

• To format a certain partition, like system drive only, please right-click the partition and select Format Partition from the menu. And then, specify partition label, file system and cluster size for that partition. Finally, click Apply and then proceed to take effect.

After formatting hard drive on HP laptop, you may want to know how to clean installation Windows 10 to hard drive. Above steps also apply to how to format HP laptop in Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows XP/Vista.