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How Do I format my hard drive
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Name: ~ZoRb~
Date: May 26, 2000 at 11:14:46 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive
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Comment: I am afraid to format my hard drive because I dont wonna lose system files and drivers that I might need and other such things, is their a way I could go about doing this? If so please tell me thanks for you time,
~ZoRb~
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Response Number 1
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Name: Preston
Date: May 26, 2000 at 12:35:34 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive |
Reply: (edit)formatting will lose everything on the hard drive. No exceptions. Why don't you let us know why you think you need to format your drive? Once formatted, a drive shouldn't need to be formatted again unless the FAT tables become error ridden.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Preston
Date: May 26, 2000 at 12:36:46 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive |
Reply: (edit)correction, what I meant to say was that formatting will erase everything on that partition. If a hard drive has several partitions, then formatting one partition will not affect the other partitions.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Ronnie Ratt
Date: May 26, 2000 at 16:40:53 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive |
Reply: (edit)G'day ZoRb, there is a How To button at the top of this page [advanced] that will give you a rough idea on what to do and what to have. If you have 98 you should have a boot disc to access your Cd-rom but your normal drive letter might temporarily change to the next letter with this disc. And yes the first time can be scary, it was for me as I had a reason to be, I didn't know about the file MSCDEX.exe [in 95] then and ended up getting it 'fixed' at the shop after being 'locked' out of Windows for a week and no-one to help me, but I learned quick after that.
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Response Number 4
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Name: LM-S
Date: May 26, 2000 at 16:49:44 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive
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Reply: (edit)Why do you want to format your drive? If you do format the drive, then the only way to 'save/preserve' files/drivers.etc... is to back-up those files; or to 'copy' them somewhere safe... If the system files are for an OS/application, then if you have the OS/appllication installation CD's you will still have them when you re-install the OS...; drivers are usually either within the OS files, on supplied CD/floppies, or more current versions on the appropriate web-site - but check first... As Preston remarks, formatting a partition will destroy all info on that partition only... But again, why do you want to format the drive? More info from you means more useful/appropriate advice from folks here?
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Response Number 5
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Name: Ben
Date: May 26, 2000 at 22:38:03 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive |
Reply: (edit)I know this is sort of different, but how can I get my win98 system to read a previously winNT formated drive so that I can format it for fat32
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Response Number 6
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Name: Geoff
Date: May 27, 2000 at 10:58:24 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)First off is it really necassary for you to format your hard drive. I would suggest you buy a Tape streamer or Jazz disk or even nowadays a Cd writer - and back up your data! The real reasons for formatting a hard drive is 1. You have a virus 2. You have bad sectors 3.Your putting a new operating system on.
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Response Number 7
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Name: BentChaos
Date: May 27, 2000 at 18:33:32 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive
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Reply: (edit)Hehe... well.. you format your drive by going into DOS... and typeing... format c:
than something will come up to the effect of... are you sure you want to do this... and if you do.. push y... than enter.. and it will start formating... SIMPLE AS THAT...
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Response Number 8
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Name: BentChaos
Date: May 27, 2000 at 18:34:34 Pacific
Subject: How Do I format my hard drive
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Reply: (edit)CORRECTION... the c: in the command line can be any drive.. (c:,d:,a:, etc....)
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