Comments on How to Format a Hard Drive With Windows XP

I have the same problem a 1woodmonger,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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good article.

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.

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.

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...