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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!
John the Expert said
on 6/27/2008 Angof try knoppix you can boot from CD using a live distribution and don't have to format your C drive.
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
ecah7 said
on 6/24/2008 hi all,
i got problem to format my hard drive. after i've press any key to boot from cd nothing happen and the blue screen didn't show up. i've waited the whole night but nothing happened. please help me. i really need to format the computer.
lapointebreak said
on 6/7/2008 Wow! First time using eHow and it was the best and easiest 'How to" computer instructions I ever encountered. The directions were idiot proof and detailed every thing concerning the event.
lapointebreak said
on 6/7/2008 Wow! the instructions were perfect and idior proof. The best and easiest "How to" on my computer I've ever followed
Angof said
on 6/5/2008 Excllent article. I thought my drive had mysteriously reduced to 20Gb until discovering the article. How are you with installing and operating Linux? I've installed RedHat, Ubuntu and Saboyan from disc but could not get online with any of 'em. Tks again for the article. nigevia@aol.com
Angof said
on 6/5/2008 Excllent article. I thought my drive had mysteriously reduced to 20Gb until discovering the article. How are you with installing and operating Linux? I've installed RedHat, Ubuntu and Saboyan from disc but could not get online with any of 'em. Tks again for the article. nigevia@aol.com
Lee Barnes said
on 5/25/2008 very good instructions...thank you very much!
Lee Barnes said
on 5/25/2008 Very good instructions!
raytom said
on 5/25/2008 just reformatted my mothers pc she had downloaded a trogen which made using the pc or removing the virus impossible.
Great& easy instructions to follow the pc is now working as it should..thanx..
Atermon said
on 5/24/2008 This article is great and we must thank you for your time to help us,BUT in both cases we talk about partitions.What if i like to format ALL my hard disk at once?? No partitions no C: and D: Just only FORMAT C: ???
militops said
on 5/21/2008 Great article,but I think the effect will double if you add more instructing pictures.
larryrimon said
on 5/12/2008 I have widows xp installed on my laptop and i want to install a clean version + format my drive. But, when i try to install windows like in the instructions above i get to where it gives me the option where you can delete old partitions and format drives. Then without even pressing a key my computer switches off automatically every time! I have my original boot cd with serial no. Can you help me out on this plz?