How do I reformat/format a hard drive?
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You really seem to have a need to get rid of the data on that hard drive. Hmmmmm.................
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Delete or reformat the partition that it is in.
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Use Disk Utility in your Utilities folder to reformat it.\n\nOpen Disk Utility\nHighlight your volume in the sidebar\nclick the Erase tab\nchoose "MS-DOS" for format\nclick Erase\n\nDisk Utility will automatically choose FAT-32 or FAT-16, depending on your disk size.  Your 100 Gig disk will be formatted in FAT-32 format.
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Depends on how drastic you wanna be. Even after formating some data can still be recovered by someone who knows what he/she is doing.\n\nMy Solution:\n1) Boot pc with boot disk.\n2) Use Fdisk to delte partition and recreate it \n3) Use the Format C: /U command (unconditional format)\n4) Bootup with windows XP or 2000 cd and when installing choose format as NTFS partition.\n\nNote: When deleting the current partition and recreating it as either fat or fat32 and afterwards reformating as NTFS it makes it virtualy impossible to do a data recovery on the disk.
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Your best bet is to boot from floppy or CD and just repartition/reformat the hard drive.
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As long as the hard drive is plugged in and it shows up in your computer's BIOS (and is given a drive letter) then it doesn't matter where it is... or what enclosure it's contained in.\n\nIf you're using Windows, you should be able to right click on that drive and choose "Format".
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You don't need to reformat your hard drive to replace Windows.\n\nIf all you want to do is to replace Windows, just do a "clean" install.\n\nHowever, if you want to reformat your hard drive and erase everything on it, you can go to the Microsoft web site and read in the Knowledge Base  how to do that.  Be sure that is what you want to do because you can loose everything.  If you are not sure of what you are doing, it is worthwhile to pay someone to reformat your hard drive.
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Or\n\nRight click on the drive icon and select format.\n\nOf course you wouldn't want to do this on your C drive
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at the command prompt. type "FORMAT D: /q |y" \n(without the double quote and assuming your 8gb is on drive d)
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reformat your HD You didn't overwrite your original OS
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When you start the installation for XP, it'll ask you to format or remove the current partition.  You can remove all partitions and reformat this way.
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before deleting data, plz save all ur necessary data.\n\n1. Right click on hard drive. e.g. C:&#92;> and click on "Format"\n2. Mark "Quick Format" and click on "Start" button.\n3. Repeat this process for every drive... thats it... \n\nThis thing u can also do from command Prompt\n\n1. C:&#92;> Format\nthat drive will be formatted\n\n2. apply 1st step for every drive.
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format c:/\nYou can also format the drive by just putting the xp disk into the drive and restarting the computer, when it asks which drive to install it too look at your options.  Delete the partition and create a new one.  Through the process you will format your drive.
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If all you want to do is reformat then you could use FreeDOS or Knoppix.
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Reformat and reload.\n\nCoach
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the only way is to do a complete reformat of your hard drive and relaod windows XP
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re-format the hard drive.