I recently purchased an old computer and I was wondering if I can format the hard drive to were it its completely blank… and how do I do it? or is there a DIY section in where it can teach me how to format the HD..
Actually you can..there are several ways, some harder than others, but still they still get to the same end off course with some differences on the disc format (FAT32,NTFS), so the easiest way is to get norton or powerquest partition magic, and connect your disk to a bootable computer, install partition magic on the computer, inside partition magic right click on the disk you want to format, click format, select the file system and then click apply changes and once it ended your disk is now formated, now if you dont have this program but you have windows xp bootable disc you choose install new OS but when it says to choose in what HD to install the OS choose the the drive you want to format press L (to delete partition) and after that there will be a disc where it says unasigned space, choose f (to format) and select wheter FAT or NTFS, after formating is done you can get out of the Windows XP installation program and you have a formated disc, the old way is using FDISK (I think) but you need a diskette drive, you can download FDISK and boot from it and it gives you the option to format...Im not sure of it correct me if Im wrong..Hope it helps. Remember to check when formatting that the keys you press are correct because I dont remember exactly what keys you have to press, of course the program will clearly tell you what are your options.
