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Surely you will have heard from a computer technician telling you, make a Format your computer, and it will become like new. A friend or acquaintance will have told you that your computer is using a Format to become like new. So let's see what format is and how you can do it yourself without having to go to a technician and pay a fairly large amount of money.

What is Format?

Format is the configuration of a partition or the entire disk. In what simple terms and as the leme in the village, Format is the permanent deletion of all files from the computer and the reinstallation of the operating system. First of all, let me remind you at this point and before we move on to Format, that it would be wise to keep a Backup of all the files and programs we need. After format all files and programs will be permanently deleted. Let's start doing format.

Step 1

• Initially we find the icon my computer (usually it is on the desktop).
• Then we right-click and find the properties option, and from there we see what architecture our Pc has. After we have found the architecture of our Computer (32 or 64 bits) we continue with step 2.

Step 2

• We enter the Microsoft page to download the file that we will need to make the Format. I add the link for your convenience https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
• From the options that Microsoft will show you, do not forget to choose the right architecture of your computer as we saw in step 1.

Step 3

• After you have downloaded the file, you run it.
• It will take us out in the beginning of 2 options. We will choose the 2nd one where he writes to create installation media for another PC.
• Press next and then choose language, version and architecture.
• And finally and very importantly it will ask us to choose the flash that we will install the operating system. Attention here we choose the first option that writes USB flash Drive. We definitely make sure to have a flashlight of at least 8GB and to have it connected to our computer. We press Next.

Step 4

• After we have installed the Installation on our flash, we restart our computer.
• Here as soon as the computer opens we will need to hold down one of the following keys. ESC,F8,F9,F10,F11,F12 Depending on the motherboard we have. Beware each motherboard has its own key to display the BIOS Menu. The most key we will need to press, it usually writes it down below as soon as the computer opens.
• Having entered the BIOS MENU we find the BOOT tab
• Then we choose our computer to start by reading the USB flash and not the hard drive.
• After we have chosen the means that our computer will boot, we press F10 to save our options.

Step 5

• A Windows 10 Setup window will appear to us. We choose the language we want and press Next
• In the next step, it will ask us to enter the activation code. Press Skip(Ignore)
• Then we accept all the terms.
• Once we have done all the above actions correctly, we go to the most important step. It will show us 2 options. In order to make a form, we will choose the 2nd option where it writes Custom Install Windows only.
• The next action we will need to do is to delete all the data from the hard disk partitions. We select the partitions one by one and press Delete.
• When we have deleted all the partitions. We will select the hard drive where we want to do the installation of Windows 10, and we press Next.
• That's it, now Windows will do the installation on its own and we'll have to wait a few minutes before it's done.

Step 6

• Now all that's left for us is to configure Windows the way we want. Eg. to give him a username, to put a password, etc.
• WARNING!!! Do not forget after the installation of Windows 10 to go to the BIOS MENU and choose again as a starting medium the Hard Drive.

CONGRATULATIONS You just got your computer in shape.