There are many times that I find it primary to format a harddrive on a computer principles that I am working on. Many of the home systems that come to our labs are in such bad shape that the best thing to do is format the harddrive and them reload the operating principles and drivers and software.
When I talk with the client in man or by phone I all the time ask,
What is the computer doing? They usually say that it is running very slow, have any pop-ups appearing, wont let me download anything, take me to places on the internet that I don't want to go.
Then I will ask how long has this been going on? There come back will be for some time now.
Next question, when was the last time you had the computer tuned and cleaned up, and or you cleaned the registry files and defrag the computer. 9 times of 10 they will say never.
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It is fantastic that most citizen think they can run a computer especially on the internet and they don't have to do anyone to it to keep running at optimum performance.
Formatting Your Hard Drive
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From the scenario above approximately all the computers that we have come into our lab are in terrible shape. We will first check over the principles and approximately inevitably we will ghost copy an image of the drive and then format the drive to erase all the data that is stored on it.
Step by step directions to format a harddrive
Backup - Before doing anyone to format the harddrive, back up the data from the harddrive that you are going to format. There are any ways to do this, the easiest way is to purchase an external harddrive for about - . Most external harddrives have back up software built into them to make the process much easier to do. You want to make sure that you back up your Documents folder, your bookmarks, your email and contacts, and if potential your drivers folder. If you have documents and pictures saved elsewhere on your computer make sure you copy them over to the external harddrive. Remember, when we format everything will be erased from the drive and it will not be recoverable.
For formatting a harddrive you have some options in this area. We will now look at these options.
Format by menu - If you are running a dual drive you can format the slave drive by going to "My computer" and selecting the slave drive usually drive "D". Right click on the drive and plump "Format" from the window that popped up. Someone else petite window will appear and ask you to plump the file principles you want to use. If your operating principles is Xp or newer use the Ntfs file system. Now plump Quick Format selection and then click start. After this is completed your drive will be totally erased and it is read to use again.
Using Windows facility Disk - Again make sure all data is backed up. Restart your computer and choose the selection to enter into your Bios setup. This is sometimes done by either pressing your Delete or Esc or F1 key. It should tell you when you restart. Go into the setup menu and go into boot configurations. choose to boot from Cd/Dvd. Install your windows Install disk into the drive and then exit setup. When exiting it will prompt you to save and exit, choose this option. As your computer restarts it will prompt you to hit any key to boot from disk, do this. You cannot format while your operating principles is running and by booting from disk it keeps the operating principles from firing up. After the compute boots to windows facility it will take you through any screens before it gets to the format area. When you get to the area to format it will ask you to either format by Ntfs or Fat32. By selecting Ntfs it will allow the drive to run faster and more accumulate than Fat32. After this your harddrive is formatted and all data is gone from the harddrive. You can gait now to reloading the operating principles that you want.
Older Computers- You can choose to reformat sections of your harddrive by using the command window. Type 'format' at the command line, followed by the drive name. For example, if you want to format the D drive, type .If you want to do a quick format on a single drive, you should pass the Q parameter as well.Newer Computers - Open the operate panel. You can find the operate panel in the Windows Vista start menu located in the lower left angle of the screen. plump "System and Maintenance." Click "Administrative Tools." plump "Computer Management." You may be prompted for a password if you are not an administrator in Windows Vista. plump "Storage" from the Disk management section of the pilotage pane. HighLight the harddrive you want to format. Right-click the drive and plump "Format" from the menu. Click "Ok."
These are some options for you to try and format your own harddrive. Again I caution you that formatting a harddrive erases everything on it. So make sure that you have backed up everything onto an external harddrive, or flash drive, or Cd/Dvd.
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