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I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing.
The term "format" has a very specific meaning -- to recreate one or more filesystem partitions on a drive. This effectively removes the partition(s) formerly there and while it writes a filesystem to the drive, that is blank -- so the drive no longer has Windows on it and it no longer boots.
Is this what you did, or did you do something else?
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