Formatting hard drive can be categorized into two types: Quick format and Regular format. Regular format : When you choose to run a regular format on a volume, files are removed from the volume that you are formatting and the hard disk is scanned for bad sectors. The scan for bad sectors is responsible to make you sure that your drive is in healthy mode or not.
Quick format : If the quick format option is chosen, format process removes files from the partition, but does not scan the disk for bad sectors. Only use this option if your hard disk has been previously formatted and you are sure that hard disk is not damaged.
But if you have more than one OS on a disc as I do , then you need to run it on both partitions. What could be wrong? Should I have to keep XP SP2 as it is or should I have to update it every often through automatic update option including with critical security updates? I have been trying to install Windows Vista on my Intel 3. Is my PC compatible for the said installation.
I always find great help everytime I open this site. Yes this is the right way that I have been using to Format and Install Windows. My computer allows the page scroll buttons and the ESC button to work, but not F8 for some reason.
I have a windows xp disk but I dont know how to run it or anything can you help me out? I was infected by the trojan generic downloader. It would not boot from disc, but did after we pressed the F12 key. I updated gradually to service pack 3, but had no sound. I only found this out by lots of google searching, and reading the tech help forums, as I think Dell will only tell you this, if you pay for their tech. Thanks Leo. I have a question though. Can I copy the installation CDs onto an external drive and follow the above instructions from there?
Can I boot from the external drive? Thanks for your help! Thank you Leo 1 for the helpful answer 2 for constantly reminding us to back up our data in SOME way I wanted to share a bit about my experience in case it helps someone else, and ask a question….
On April 1st, for some reason virus? From there, I was able to follow the directions in your article. How do I know which one to delete? I figured I had nothing to lose, so I reluctantly deleted all of them except for the unpartitioned space. From my description, can you tell me why I had those additional partitions that are not on your screen shots? Once you are happy that all your files have been saved move on to the next step. If your using Windows Vista, go start, control panel, administrative tools and then double click computer management.
You will need to press continue. Then select Storage, Disk Management and right click on the partition on the bottom of the page and select delete volume. The Print Screen on the right explains it easily. Open Disk Management , the hard drive manager included with all versions of Windows.
Opening Disk Management can be done a number of ways depending on your version of Windows, but the easiest method is to type diskmgmt.
Another way to open Disk Management is through Control Panel. After Disk Management opens, which might take several seconds, look for the drive you want to format from the list at the top.
There's a lot of information in Disk Management, so if you can't see everything, maximize the window. Look for the amount of storage on the drive as well as the drive name. For example, if it says Music for the drive name and it has 2 GB of hard drive space, then you've likely selected a small flash drive full of music. Feel free to open the drive to make sure that it's what you want to format if it makes you confident that you're going to format the right device. If you don't see the drive listed on the top or an Initialize Disk windows appears, it probably means that the hard drive is new and has not yet been partitioned.
Partitioning is something that must be done before a hard drive is formatted. Now that you've found the drive you want to format, right-click it and choose Format to open the disk-formatting wizard. Now is as good a time as any to remind you that you really, really, really need to make sure that this is the right drive.
You certainly don't want to format the wrong hard drive. You cannot format your C drive , or whatever drive Windows is installed on, from within Windows. In fact, the Format option isn't even enabled for the drive with Windows on it. The first of several formatting details which we'll cover over the next several steps is the volume label , which is essentially a name given to the hard drive. In the Volume label textbox, enter whatever name you'd like to give to the drive.
If the drive had a previous name and that makes sense for you, by all means, keep it. Drive letters are assigned during the Windows partitioning process but can easily be changed after the format is complete. You can change drive letters after the formatting process is done if you'd like. Next up is the file system choice. NTFS is the most recent file system available and is almost always the best choice.
Only choose FAT32 FAT—which is actually FAT16—isn't available unless the drive is 2 GB or smaller if you are specifically told to do so by a program's instructions that you're planning on using on the drive.
This is not common. In the Allocation unit size textbox, choose Default. The best allocation size based on the size of the hard drive will be chosen. It's not at all common to set a custom allocation unit size when formatting a hard drive in Windows.
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