look at your Hard disc drive in the 'my computer' section. If you're formatting you're going to lose everything so back everything up on CDRs or something. Right click and go to Format. 5 days later... you should be set.
2006-07-31 21:08:05
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answered by gnomef0cker 3
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First of all, why do you want to format your hard drive (you cannot 'format a computer')? If you format your drive you will lose EVERYTHING, and only expensive data forensics will retrieve your data. Do you have the installation media (a Windows, Linux or Mac OS installation disk)?
Put a floppy in the A:/ drive, open a command console and type 'sys a' (I think). This will make your floppy bootable. Make sure you have aprogram called 'fdisk' on the floppy. Boot from the floppy and use fdisk to wipe your partitions. Then create new partitions.
PS. Check all of the above, I don't use Windows any more, so I'm typing all this from memory.
2006-07-31 21:15:26
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answered by Anonymous
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1. you can format all drives of ur computer one by one.
2. first save ur important data in cd or floppy or in a drive which u r not to format.
3. open my computer select the drive which is to format , right click and click on format option.
4. a messgae will show, click yes.
5. the format process will be start.
6. u can also do the above by giving 'format' command in the command prompt.
7. by using above process u can format all drives of ur computers.
2006-07-31 21:13:08
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answered by dinesh swt 2
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There is a number of ways you can format. But mind a save all the stuff you like to keep. You will need your window operating sytem applacation insert this.. and the wizard shoud do it for you I am one of the lucky ones who has two computers and if i want to format i set it up so that other computer dose it for me you can also go to start/control pannel/Administrative tools/comuter management/storage/diskmanagement from there you should be able to see your drive click on the drive you wish to format of course this is for xp
2006-07-31 21:21:49
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answered by Carol E 1
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when you start computer press F8 or F5 cant remeber which one takes you into safe mode windows one brings up a list of options anyway whe you get the list of options go to start in dos mode then
when the c:> symbol thoing comes up type: format c: \s
NB this will remove everything from your computer and bring some system files back remember to type \s otherwise you dont get system files and no dos at start but yeah thats how you format your computer
2006-07-31 21:12:52
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answered by woot!! 3
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u have to first boot ur computer while its booting keep pressing F8 button several times untill an options menu comes. then select command prompt then type the following:-
C:/ format C:
then type y for yes
then it starts formatting
2006-07-31 21:11:12
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answered by pegasus 1
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just right click on your hard drive icon and go to format. But before you do that make sure you have save up all existing file in your pc to another hard drive if you have one cos you will not be able to retrive anything which is being remove by the pc.
2006-07-31 21:10:44
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answered by maggotier 4
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pls make backup before format
then boot form cd
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x:\ format c:
2006-07-31 21:10:48
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answered by Anonymous
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go to dos command prompt and type
C:\ FORMAT C:
and then enter
and press 'y' for every option
2006-07-31 21:09:05
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answered by Leo H 4
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boot to a xp cd is the easiest
5 days pfft
thats coz u play answers all day dear and know ***
2 hrs max.
2006-07-31 21:08:20
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answered by Anonymous
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