Formating of entire HDD?. Hi, I wonder if I will get any benefit from formatting the entire HDD instead of just the system partition when reinstalling the OS. Is there any idea about it? Thanks. Hi, I wonder if I will get any benefit from formatting...

I thought it might be something to do with the drive coming off a Mac laptop but as I am formating the drive, it should at least be SEEN? (or doesnt a full install of XP Pro format the drive?) Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq () In article , Paul...

dont show on warm boot, had hard drive problems (noisy) messed with hard drive settings, no avail, did a low-level format using estool(samsung software), did clean install of vista, installed wifi driver, computer ...

Cannot Format Entire Drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () XP Home originally on drive. I am trying to install Professional. Compaq Presario, 2.2 ghz, 200 gig HD, 512 ram. I am working on a computer for family friend. It was...

of a partitioned hard drive. For instance I have DRV1_VOL2, DRV1_VOL3, DRV1_VOL4 and would like to format DRV1_VOL3. Will this format the entire drive or just the targeted volume? Thanks, -- Donna J.. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware...

WinXP CD-ROM and boot. Follow the > prompts, including the early one that asks if you want to partition and >format the HD. Say yes, but pay close attention; if you're not careful, > you'll get the default, which is to format the entire HD as a single...

RAW" format. So > I took the next logical step and looked under the Windows > disk utility and then in Partition magic. they both show > it as un formatted and will not allow me to just convert > the partition over to NTFS with out formatting the entire...

Format. I've accidently formatted my entire hard drive (Windows XP) with FAT32. I haven't installed another OS yet - just reformatted. How can I recover what was there before? It used to be 2 partitions. If I purchase these apps/utilities mentioned wouldn't...

installed you should be able to format the rest from within windows i think. Been a long time since ive used 98. I know in xp you can make partitions from within the os. I got a new MOTHERBOARD with a modern BIOS and was able to format the entire 160GB as...

Format HDD to into FAT32. I want to format my entire HDD and do a clean install of Win98 SE. So how do you format the HDD into FAT32 partition ? Thanks. I want to format my entire HDD and do a clean install of Win98 SE. So how do you format the HDD into...