Deleting a hard drive

weirddemon · 12-29-2005, 06:09 AM

Basically, I was wondering how to delete everything that is on my hard drive. I have too many problems with it and just want to erase everything. Thanks

**The_Other_One** · 12-29-2005, 06:15 AM

When you begin to reload windows, you should get the option to format the drive. That's all you got to do

**Praetor** · 12-29-2005, 02:38 PM

You can also goto My Computer, right click on the target drive and select "format"

[-0MEGA-] · 12-29-2005, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Praetor

You can also goto My Computer, right click on the target drive and select "format"

not if the drive he wants to format is currently being used by windows

**Praetor** · 12-29-2005, 02:46 PM

See post #2 and note the use of the word "also" in my post.

**Praetor** · 12-29-2005, 02:55 PM

Annoying an admin is not a reccomended course of action. But I guess I have to spoonfeed you at least once before I can justify a ban:
1. If he has the problem as described (which neither of us actually know) then post#2 is sufficient to deal with that. But what if it's not that drive thats giving us a problem? (i.e., we always tell people to put drives into working computers to get them working)....
2. Now to conver the scenario where it's not the OS partition on the OS drive, we include post #3
Now continuing this pointless banter is really not ideal.

H_L · 12-30-2005, 12:43 PM

If you want to get rid of everything e.g. format then pop in your xp disc (if that’s your os) and you can wipe the hdd just before you do a reinstall
or boot from a startup floppy and format c:

12-29-2005, 06:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
weirddemon New Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 12	Deleting a hard drive Basically, I was wondering how to delete everything that is on my hard drive. I have too many problems with it and just want to erase everything. Thanks

12-29-2005, 06:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
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12-29-2005, 02:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
Praetor Administrator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 19,949	See post #2 and note the use of the word "also" in my post. __________________ ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8 4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400 5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10 OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI

12-29-2005, 02:55 PM	#6 (permalink)
Praetor Administrator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 19,949	Annoying an admin is not a reccomended course of action. But I guess I have to spoonfeed you at least once before I can justify a ban: 1. If he has the problem as described (which neither of us actually know) then post#2 is sufficient to deal with that. But what if it's not that drive thats giving us a problem? (i.e., we always tell people to put drives into working computers to get them working).... 2. Now to conver the scenario where it's not the OS partition on the OS drive, we include post #3 Now continuing this pointless banter is really not ideal. __________________ ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8 4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400 5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10 OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI

12-30-2005, 12:43 PM	#7 (permalink)
H_L Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 146	If you want to get rid of everything e.g. format then pop in your xp disc (if that’s your os) and you can wipe the hdd just before you do a reinstall or boot from a startup floppy and format c:

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