Comments on: How to Format a Hard Drive With Windows XP

on 2/24/2009 I've done all the steps to format a second hard drive,everything seems corect and fine, however when I right click on a photo, choose send, my new drive letter doesn't show. In my computer it does show new volume j. I can drag and drop to j, but cant send. Why

on 2/24/2009 I've done all the steps to format a second hard drive,everything seems corect and fine, however when I right click on a photo, choose send, my new drive letter doesn't show. In my computer it does show new volume j. I can drag and drop to j, but cant send. Why

on 2/20/2009 Great info, however when I go to format the "C" drive the the Delete partition command is grey and I cant access it, any ideas?thanks

on 2/16/2009 Everything was blanked out for me and nothing in this article worked until I stopped using the drive for the paging file for virtual memory. In Disk Management out to the right of the word Healthy was (Paging file) if I recall. To fix this, I followed the steps in the below eHow article and choose "No paging file" and then clicked the "Set" button out to the right of that. That did the trick for my secondary drive and everything in this article worked like a champ after that. http://www.ehow.com/how_2226083_relocate-paging-file-windows-xp.html

on 2/16/2009 Everything was blanked out for me and nothing in this article worked until I stopped using the drive for the paging file for virtual memory. In Disk Management out to the right of the word Healthy was (Paging file) if I recall. To fix this, I followed the steps in the below eHow article and choose "No paging file" and then clicked the "Set" button out to the right of that. That did the trick for my secondary drive and everything in this article worked like a champ after that. http://www.ehow.com/how_2226083_relocate-paging-file-windows-xp.html.

on 2/6/2009 i have a 120 gig hd but when i formatted it the thing was only a 31 gig, why what happened? and can i get the rest of the gigs back?

on 1/28/2009 WoW Thank you very much for taking the time to write this.
Now my new 500GB is all set ready to go. This was as it popped up on the screen and worked like a champ.
Thanks again
Ragenrat

on 1/19/2009 I tried to reformtt my harddrive and when you get to the partions screen the computer shuts off. does anyone knows whats going on?

on 1/12/2009 i've formated my pc number of times now i try to format when i get to press any key to boot from cd it starts up in normal mode i don't know what to do

on 1/5/2009 i tryed to formatt the harddrive from the disk managemet window. but when i right clicked on the drive i wanted to formatt, to dlete exsting partitions, the "Dlete", was not highlighted, what did i do wrong

on 12/16/2008 How do you re-insert a backup disk of Windows when the backup disk is inside the computer (factory installed)?

on 12/3/2008 Good article.

on 10/18/2008 I have been trying to get a clear steer of the net for two days now. Excellent instructions, thank you. I have finnaly cracked it.

I was updating an older machine with a new 500gb pata drive. Had to update the bios driver first and this article unlocked the next step which was to format and partition the drive.

on 9/25/2008 Thank you Thank you i have been trying to get my new hard drive working for days the bloke at the computer shop said nothing about formating the new hard drive.thank you again it works...

on 9/25/2008 Amazing! I have been looking for instructions that made sence for days. I wasted so much time and I was so frustrated with all that rubbish out there.
Thank you so much for this great info