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How to Erase and Recover Vista Hard Drive?

After the invention of hard drive or memory stick, it became too easy to store and manipulate data. A perfect operating system makes this task much easier than command user Interface. Vista Operating System has rich graphical user interface that provides best way to store, retrieve and delete data from the hard drive. However, hard drive is always used for storing different kinds of data but sometimes we need to delete our data permanently from the hard drive. Sometimes, we also need to erase our entire hard drive data. Deleting or erasing entire hard drive is not a big task and any one can easily erase Vista Hard Drive.

Some easiest steps are mentioned below which will help you a lot to erasing hard drive. Before deleting vista hard drive you must ensure that there is no any valuable data is stored in targeted drive. Once you delete hard drive, there is no any manual way to recover erased data from Vista PC.

How to Erase Vista Hard Drive?

  • Launch My Computer and Right Click on the targeted drive which you want to erase.
  • Select “Format” Option from the context menu. You will get a pop up window.
  • Choose your desired file system from the drop down list or make it default.
  • Put your desired drive name in the label column.
  • Check the Quick Format option and click on Start Button.
  • Congratulations! Your selected drive has been successfully erased.

You can’t delete or format the drive that is currently being used by Windows OS. After deletion the entire hard drive by this way, you also will not be able to restore them from recycle bin.

If you mistakenly delete or erase hard drive and want to recover lost data then you need to effective vista recovery tool that could get back your data from the erased hard drive. Vista Data Recovery software can help you a lot to recover erased data from Vista PC. This tool perform deep scanning and able to recover data from the formatted hard drive. Once scanning will be completed, you will see the preview window in which you will get a preview of all the recoverable data. Now, just select your location and save your data.