[Mmmm]Sacrificial Lamb June 2, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Sacrificial Lamb Member June 2, 2004 Tell me how to reformat my hard drive so that every single file is off of it. I keep getting crazy error messages and pops so fast I can't close them. Therefore I am reformatting. Please help the Lamb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa June 2, 2004 Share Playaa Member June 2, 2004 simple reformat if you're doing it from a Dos Prompt Format C: (and every other drive you have, E:, F:, D:, etc.) if you're doing it from a windows install disk...just format every drive. you hafta go out of your way to format and NOT get rid of everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubblegum Bandit June 2, 2004 Share Bubblegum Bandit Member June 2, 2004 Just call me Thursday night or Friday and I'll walk you through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railz June 2, 2004 Share railz Member June 2, 2004 Sure it is your hard drive? Nothing sucks more than Reformatting, and losing everything only to have those error messages come back, I know that feeling But ya, the DOS way is probably the simpliest, unless you have the Windows CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Sacrificial Lamb June 2, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Sacrificial Lamb Member June 2, 2004 thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer June 3, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member June 3, 2004 Boot off the Windows XP CD. Hit F6 during the load if you need to load any RAID, SATA, or SCSI drivers from a floppy drive. When you get to the install Windows screen it will ask you if you want to Repair the Windows install, install Windows to another drive, or install Windows in place of the current one. Choose the last one. Then tell it to do a full format using NTFS (not the quick format). Prior to the the last step here you could also repartition your drive by hitting the key to delete partitions and then recreating one or more partitions. I suggest at least 2 partitions so you can install Windows on one (give yourself at least 30gb here) and put your data on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX June 3, 2004 Share NOFX Member June 3, 2004 whats the difference between quick and not quick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa June 3, 2004 Share Playaa Member June 3, 2004 quick basically just deletes the file that tells the computer where everything is...so that it forgets where everything is and thinks the hard drive is blank...from that point on you actually overwrite information. not quick makes the hard drive blank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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