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Gragatuan said
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.
leasid said
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...
Kayeedv12 said
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
dodgrdog88 said
on 9/23/2008 I had to do a complete reformat of my hard drive (reinstall Windows XP) due to some major performance issues I'd been having for quite some time. I performed all the tasks above and I'm still having problems. I tried to set a new network connection and the wizard can't find the hardware, and I can't change my screen resolution since the only option I'm given is Medium (16 bit). My problems got worse!! HELP!!
WdwrthAir said
on 9/23/2008 Excellent help! Thank you! It worked wonderfully without confusion!
rassmussen said
on 9/21/2008 i saw 3 steps.....wheres the rest////
DrDanny said
on 9/19/2008 Great article! www.wweinfo1.blogspot.com
jsurrett said
on 9/19/2008 when you have to reformat the hard drive.. do you ahve to run in safemode....
kranthi54321 said
on 9/8/2008 can any one help me how to take back up of the files. One day I installed the avast anti-virus in my system and scanned the system. then suddenly one reminder saying that virus found in operating system. suddenly The power gone then i am forced to shut down my system using the btn found on CPU. when power came when i 'switched on' the systemits not opening and showing only curser blinking..
Then when I had kept formating CD in drive and had to re-install the windows XP but after some steps the scrren is showing a message telling that windows cannot found any hard drives installed in ur system. press F3 to Quit.
Help me to solve this problem...
send me ur suggestions to this ID: kranthi54321@gmail.com
dirkdoggler said
on 8/27/2008 this page clearly did EXACTLY what I needed and accurately described what to expect! Microsoft's help sucks ASS and was telling me about FAT32 (he-he). Once again, I'm busy fixing my Windows machine when I'd rather be playing w/ my Ubuntu. thx guys >dirk
wwwupfuse com said
on 8/24/2008 Formatting an external hard drive will not wipe your current hard drive.
Top-SHOT-Tom said
on 8/16/2008 Hey do you know if formatting an external hdd will wipe my current hard drive??
stevewalker said
on 8/10/2008 can I use the article "formatting a secondary hard drive to remove a partition and place the all the hard drive space into a single partition ?
vonjarney said
on 8/2/2008 I'm trying to install XP on a Vista laptop. When it boots it shows the hard drive, but when XP tries to install it says there's no hard drive!!! Any suggestions? Thanks, John
dieSprout said
on 7/22/2008 Great article - thanks for the help!