What is the easyest way to tottalt erace a hard drive ao a pc?
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Go into DOS and type in C:&#92;format\n\nIt'll ask if you're sure, and you say yes.\n\nHD manufacturers have a small program you can download to write 0s over the entire drive, ensuring that no data can be recovered - run that program after formatting off of a floppy disk, and it should be totally erased.\n\nAlternatively, there are a TON of programs that offer to completely erase hard drives - I have no experience with those, however.\n\nGood luck!
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take the hard drive out and stick it into your other computer
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another thing you can do is  take out your hard drive and put it in someone elses computer copy the data across to their computer, put you hard drive back in you pc install windows and then either setup a network and copy your data back or again take out you hard drive and put it in their computer and copy the data across again.\n\nIt may be time consumeing but it works
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There is a software called Easy recovery that has tools for testing the mechanical and logical functions of any hard drive.  You need another hard drive if you are going to attemp any data recovery though.  Check the website.
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USB External hard drives are very affordable and have the advantage of being portable. Another alternative is copying your data to a DVD(s). Then store them offsite in case of a fire or other disaster.
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The last thing you can do is to copy all your important data to a clean and formatted drive or even another HDD(by making it slave and connectin it to the IDE channel) and then formatting your Windows drive and doing a new Windows installation.
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Your question doesn't have a simple answer; however, if you don't need two computers, the easiest thing to do would be to transplant the HD from the slower machine into the better one.  This way, you'll have both drives available in the same computer, with a minimum of muss 'n fuss :)
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All hard drive manufacturers offer a free utility to do what you are trying to do.  Download Western Digitals "Data Lifeguard 11" from their website.  It is free, very easy to use and works perfectly on any brand of drive.  Just install the drive, start data lifeguard and copy the drive. If you want the drive to be your new boot drive, check Format drive as boot disk when prompted and your good.
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copy ur entire windows folder to a dvd ... if u ever need the drivers go to device manager and update driver ... point it to ur dvd and itl find them .. backup ur registry while ur at it and save that to a dvd to ... heres how::::\n\n                                    BACKUP\n\nHow to Back Up Files and Folders\nNote You must have permissions as an administrator or as a backup operator on your computer to back up files and folders. Also, backup operators and administrators can back up and restore encrypted files and folders without decrypting the files or folders.\n1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Backup. The Backup or Restore Wizard starts.\n2. Click Advanced Mode.\n3. Click the Backup tab.\n4. On the Job menu, click New.\n5. Click to select the check boxes for the drives that you want to back up. If you want to be more specific in your selections, expand the drive that you want, and then click to select the check boxes for the files or folders that you want.\n6. Click to select the System State check box.\n\nNote If you want to back up your system settings and your data files, back up all the data on your computer plus the System State data. The System State data includes such things as the registry, the COM+ class registration database, files under Windows File Protection, and boot files.\n7. In the Backup destination list, click the backup destination that you want to use.\n8. If you clicked File in the previous step, type the full path and file name that you want in the Backup media or file name box. You can also specify a network share as a destination for the backup file.\n9. Click Start Backup. The Backup Job Information dialog box appears.\n10. Under If the media already contains backups, use one of the following steps:\n• If you want to append this backup to previous backups, click Append this backup to the media.\n• If you want to overwrite previous backups with this backup, click Replace the data on the media with this backup.\n11. Click Advanced.\n12. Select the Verify data after backup check box.\n13. In the Backup Type box, click the type of backup that you want. When you click a backup type, a description of that backup type appears under "Description."\n14. Click OK, and then click Start Backup. A Backup Progress dialog box appears, and the backup starts.\n15. When the backup is complete, click Close.\n\n\n                                    RESTORE\n\n\nNote You must have administrative or backup operator credentials on your computer to restore files and folders. Backup operators and administrators can back up and restore encrypted files and folders without decrypting the files or folders.\n\nTo restore files and folders, follow these steps:\n1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Backup. The Backup or Restore Wizard starts.\n2. Click Advanced Mode.\n3. Click the Restore and Manage Media tab.\n4. Use one of the following steps:\n• If you want to restore from a backup file, expand File, and then expand the backup file that you want. For example, expand Backup.bkf created 01/01/2002 at 1:15 PM. By default, backup includes the date and time of the backup as part of the file name.\n• If you want to restore from a tape backup, expand the tape device that you want, and then expand the media name that you want. For example, expand Travan, and then expand Media created 01/01/2002 1:15 PM.\n5. Select the check boxes for the folders that you want to restore. If you want to be more specific in your selections, double-click the folder that you want, and then select the check boxes for the files or folders that you want to restore.\n6. If you are restoring the whole operating system, select the System State check box.\n\nNote If you want to restore the operating system and your data files, you must restore the System State data. The System State data includes such things as the re
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You can download a 15 day trial version of a program called ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE.\n\nIt will make and EXACT copy of your drive. I have used it many times and it works great!
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Easy recovery professional and other data recovery software can recover data from hard drive.\n\nbut for that hard drive should be in detectable condition and media of disk should be readable for having a little damage drive in working condition try putting it in freezer for 1 or 2.
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Yes, this is very easy. Get your external HD kit and it should have instructions for you. It will guide you through he process.
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something simple and not a lot of people know about is installing a hard drive in a computer. It can be done in about a minute. My friend did this in a college course and got a great grade.
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find a external hard dirve. copy the files to it and move to laptop.
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1) if it's a power supply issue, replace the power supply in the host machine.\n\n2)You can pull the drive and install it as a secondary internal drive in another machine.\n\n3)Buy an external usb or firewire enclosure, install your hard drive in it. And now you have the ability to connect that hard drive to any computer with a usb or firewire connection.
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Easiest way is to use the utilities available from the hard drive manufacturer.  All new hard drives come with a CD that gives you the option to copy everything from your old hard drive to your new one.  Plug in both drives, boot from the CD, and copy.  This is probably the best way as it doesn't use an operating system to copy contents over to the new drive (the operating system locks/hide certain files while in use).  It would, of course, only serve them well to provide such a feature.
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Assuming you have a XP disk.\n\n1. Make a start up disk (floppy)\n2. Boot from start up disk.\n3. At a: prompt type c:\n   If c is your hard drive\n4. At c: type format \n  Depending on the size of your hard drive this operation could take a while, up to 1 hour.\n5.  Now your hard drive is clean.  \n6. Re-boot your PC with start up disk in.\n7. Select CD support oprion.\n8. Insert XP CD. It should start installing by itself.