Comments on: How to Format an External Hard Drive or a Spare Hard Drive http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm Computer Tips and Tricks from Tips4pc Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Janis Gagliardi http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-26098 Janis Gagliardi Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:29:05 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-26098 This is great information. Having a spare hard drive can really save you just in case your computer crashes or your files are corrupted with viruses. The spare hard drive should however be formatted from time to time to refresh its memory and also to remove any unnecessary item including viruses. This is great information. Having a spare hard drive can really save you just in case your computer crashes or your files are corrupted with viruses. The spare hard drive should however be formatted from time to time to refresh its memory and also to remove any unnecessary item including viruses.
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]]> By: panduranga chandrakant mohite http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-23663 panduranga chandrakant mohite Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:05:20 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-23663 hello i am P. C. MOHITE. | Member Design [W/R] Acually problem is when i insert windows xp format disk and after some perocess i pressed C ( create) and computer search privious version of xp and and this process does not stopped. actually privious version does not found to computer. what problem so support for that. thanks you hello i am
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Acually problem is when i insert windows xp format disk and after some perocess i pressed C ( create) and computer search privious version of xp and and this process does not stopped. actually privious version does not found to computer. what problem

so support for that. thanks you

]]> By: david davis http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-12497 david davis Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:52:24 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-12497 @<a href="http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12319" rel="nofollow">Robert H Mercer</a>: hey, robert. i read your post about your problem and it sounded very similar to a problem i had. 1 week ago i installed a new 250 hd to my 80 hd but could not format it. after reading your post i decided to delete partion and it worked! thanks for your information! sivad3d @Robert H Mercer:
hey, robert. i read your post about your problem and it sounded very similar to a problem i had. 1 week ago i installed a new 250 hd to my 80 hd but could not format it. after reading your post i decided to delete partion and it worked! thanks for your information!
sivad3d

]]> By: Robert H Mercer http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-12319 Robert H Mercer Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:18:21 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-12319 Believe it or not I found a solution, finally. After having almost given up hope I tried once again with the Disk Manager in computer management. Noticed [who's been asleep then?] that one of the menu options of right-click is "delete partition". Didn't think it would do any good but lo, it deleted the damned partition, thus allowing me to format the drive. Good ol' MS, always have to do things the hard way! Believe it or not I found a solution, finally. After having almost given up hope I tried once again with the Disk Manager in computer management. Noticed [who's been asleep then?] that one of the menu options of right-click is “delete partition”. Didn’t think it would do any good but lo, it deleted the damned partition, thus allowing me to format the drive. Good ol’ MS, always have to do things the hard way!

]]> By: Eric http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-12237 Eric Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:19:34 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-12237 You are correct. Windows will not delete files it believes are system files. You need to delete them off the secondary drive before windows loads up. I use a win98 boot disk and then the fdisk utility at the dos prompt. Hope that helps. You are correct. Windows will not delete files it believes are system files. You need to delete them off the secondary drive before windows loads up. I use a win98 boot disk and then the fdisk utility at the dos prompt. Hope that helps.

]]> By: Robert H Mercer http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-11596 Robert H Mercer Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:31:30 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-11596 @<a href="http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm/comment-page-1#comment-10522" rel="nofollow">Mitz</a>: Not so! I have a hard drive on which I had Windows 7 32 bit. I installed Windows 7 64 bit on another drive for convenience as I did not want to over-write some of the programs. Now, apart from deleting all NON-SYSTEM files I am unable to format the hard drive [nor delete windows files] although it has no programs in use. The system boots using the 64 bit HDD and there has been no way to format the old 32bit HDD. I have tried external programs but so far even these are unable to format. The command prompt also fails in allowing it. I believe the problem is that Windows of whatever flavour sees that there are system files on the drive and therefore refuses to format - believing it will stop the system from working. Shows just how stupid Windows really is!! @Mitz:
Not so! I have a hard drive on which I had Windows 7 32 bit. I installed Windows 7 64 bit on another drive for convenience as I did not want to over-write some of the programs. Now, apart from deleting all NON-SYSTEM files I am unable to format the hard drive [nor delete windows files] although it has no programs in use. The system boots using the 64 bit HDD and there has been no way to format the old 32bit HDD. I have tried external programs but so far even these are unable to format. The command prompt also fails in allowing it. I believe the problem is that Windows of whatever flavour sees that there are system files on the drive and therefore refuses to format – believing it will stop the system from working. Shows just how stupid Windows really is!!

]]> By: Mitz http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-10522 Mitz Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:48:43 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-10522 If the folder is not in use and on a spare hard drive then it should be ok to format it. If the folder is not in use and on a spare hard drive then it should be ok to format it.

]]> By: Roger http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-10481 Roger Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:41:03 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-10481 Hello from Colombia, thamks for ur help ;-)Please why can I not delete the folder WINDOWS from my slave hard drive? If I format my slave hard drive and delete that folder will I have conflicts with teh OS? Bye Hello from Colombia, thamks for ur help ;-) Please why can I not delete the folder WINDOWS from my slave hard drive? If I format my slave hard drive and delete that folder will I have conflicts with teh OS? Bye

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]]> By: Format Windows – How to delete a partition on a hard drive http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20maintenance/how_to_format_your_spare_hard_dr.htm#comment-3270 Format Windows – How to delete a partition on a hard drive Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:11:40 +0000 http://growingtomatoestips.com/?p=667#comment-3270 [...] You can format any other hard drives or partitions while still in Windows. You cannot format the partition that holds Windows unless you start from scratch with the install cd. Read how to format your spare hard drive. [...] [...] You can format any other hard drives or partitions while still in Windows. You cannot format the partition that holds Windows unless you start from scratch with the install cd. Read how to format your spare hard drive. [...]

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