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How do I format a hard drive
Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP
pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? |
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How do I format a hard drive
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:43:25 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote:
Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Since you no longer care about the contents of the drive, it would be much faster just to try it and see what happens than wait for an answer here. Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. This may depend on why you want to format the drive. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. Does format give you that option? And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Did you look at the "compress" articles in Help and Support? -- Remove del for email |
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How do I format a hard drive
On Feb 8, 1:08*pm, Barry Schwarz wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:43:25 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote: Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Since you no longer care about the contents of the drive, it would be much faster just to try it and see what happens than wait for an answer here. Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. This may depend on why you want to format the drive. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. Does format give you that option? And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Did you look at the "compress" articles in Help and Support? -- Remove del for email Thanks for the reply but kind of seems like you know less than I do about windows and why would it matter why I want to format the drive I just do. lol |
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How do I format a hard drive
DJW wrote:
On Feb 8, 1:08 pm, Barry Schwarz wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:43:25 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote: Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Since you no longer care about the contents of the drive, it would be much faster just to try it and see what happens than wait for an answer here. Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. This may depend on why you want to format the drive. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. Does format give you that option? And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Did you look at the "compress" articles in Help and Support? -- Remove del for email Thanks for the reply but kind of seems like you know less than I do about windows and why would it matter why I want to format the drive I just do. lol I think Barry's intention was to get you to think for yourself on this one :-) Not much has changed from the Win 95/98 days as far as formatting goes, so right-click on the drive you want to format and select "Format." The Format window will come up, giving you a number of choices. Just go from there. -- SC Tom |
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On Feb 8, 2:39*pm, "SC Tom" wrote:
DJW wrote: On Feb 8, 1:08 pm, Barry Schwarz wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:43:25 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote: Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Since you no longer care about the contents of the drive, it would be much faster just to try it and see what happens than wait for an answer here. Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. This may depend on why you want to format the drive. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. Does format give you that option? And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Did you look at the "compress" articles in Help and Support? -- Remove del for email Thanks for the reply but kind of seems like you know less than I do about windows and why would it matter why I want to format the drive I just do. lol I think Barry's intention was to get you to think for yourself on this one :-) Not much has changed from the Win 95/98 days as far as formatting goes, so right-click on the drive you want to format and select "Format." The Format window will come up, giving you a number of choices. Just go from there. -- SC Tom Ok will try it thanks but never did a format of a hard drive that way in win 98 days always used FDISK. floppies yes hard drive no. And as far as just trying something not big on that. Like telling some one ok just go into your windows folder and rename, remove or delete whatever you want and reboot and see what will happen lol |
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How do I format a hard drive
DJW wrote:
On Feb 8, 2:39 pm, "SC Tom" wrote: DJW wrote: On Feb 8, 1:08 pm, Barry Schwarz wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:43:25 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote: Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Since you no longer care about the contents of the drive, it would be much faster just to try it and see what happens than wait for an answer here. Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. This may depend on why you want to format the drive. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. Does format give you that option? And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Did you look at the "compress" articles in Help and Support? -- Remove del for email Thanks for the reply but kind of seems like you know less than I do about windows and why would it matter why I want to format the drive I just do. lol I think Barry's intention was to get you to think for yourself on this one :-) Not much has changed from the Win 95/98 days as far as formatting goes, so right-click on the drive you want to format and select "Format." The Format window will come up, giving you a number of choices. Just go from there. -- SC Tom Ok will try it thanks but never did a format of a hard drive that way in win 98 days always used FDISK. floppies yes hard drive no. And as far as just trying something not big on that. Like telling some one ok just go into your windows folder and rename, remove or delete whatever you want and reboot and see what will happen lol Well, since you're removing an OS from a different drive than your C: (by formatting it), I have to assume you're not really messing with system files. I wasn't suggesting anything near that drastic; more like telling you to delete your temp files. I have to ask before you start- is that drive part of a dual boot setup, or is it just a spare drive that you're installing simply to format? -- SC Tom |
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How do I format a hard drive
On 02/08/2012 10:43 AM, DJW wrote:
Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Just use disk management |
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How do I format a hard drive
On Feb 8, 7:45*pm, philo wrote:
On 02/08/2012 10:43 AM, DJW wrote: Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Just use disk management It is just a drive that is a slave in the computer I put in from an older computer thus it is formated as FAT34. No bootable system on it just old personal files. What is disk manager is it part of windows XP pro? Or a third party application? |
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How do I format a hard drive
"DJW" wrote in message ... On Feb 8, 7:45 pm, philo wrote: On 02/08/2012 10:43 AM, DJW wrote: Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Just use disk management It is just a drive that is a slave in the computer I put in from an older computer thus it is formated as FAT34. No bootable system on it just old personal files. What is disk manager is it part of windows XP pro? Or a third party application? Disk Management is part of Windows. Go to Start Run, type in diskmgmt.msc and press Enter. -- SC Tom |
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How do I format a hard drive
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:28:40 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote:
On Feb 8, 1:08*pm, Barry Schwarz wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:43:25 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote: Time for me to wipe and format my slave hard drive running windows XP pro. What do I do? Only done it a long time ago on a win 98SE machine and then used FDISK. Can I just right button click while it is selected in My Computer and choose format? Since you no longer care about the contents of the drive, it would be much faster just to try it and see what happens than wait for an answer here. Can I do a quick format or should I do the long way. This may depend on why you want to format the drive. Also am wanting to switch from FAT32 to NTFS. Does format give you that option? And if I want to compress a file or two from time to time (zip / make file entry blue) do I need to enable compress also? Did you look at the "compress" articles in Help and Support? -- Remove del for email Thanks for the reply but kind of seems like you know less than I do about windows and why would it matter why I want to format the drive I just do. lol You are right. I know absolutely nothing about your system except what you said - "XP pro". Hopefully, you know a bit more, such as SP level or whether you have added any system utilities or deleted any previously unused components which might now be needed. But since you don't consider that information relevant to your question, who am I to give advice. If you are formatting the drive just to start with a clean file allocation table, then a quick format is probably adequate. If you are formatting the drive because you believe it has bad or flaky sectors, then a full format will write each sector and possibly provide diagnostic information. But since you don't think that is relevant to your question, who am I to give advice. -- Remove del for email |
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