We’ll go over each item one-by-one so you can decide It presents options about how you want to format your drive. In any File Explorer window, browse to “This PC.” In the list of “Devices and Drives,” right-click the drive you’d like to format and select “Format” in the menu that appears.Ī “Format” window will open. Or you can right-click the Start button and select “File Explorer.” You can usually do this by clicking the folder icon in your taskbar. Luckily, formatting is very easy to do directly from File Explorer. Formatting a hard drive or SSD in Windows 11 erases any existing data on a drive or prepares and prepares the disk for use.
