I had an old Gateway Computer and I have bought a new computer to replace it, and with the old one I had an External 40gb HD. I want to Reformat the External HD and take ALL the folders and such out of it so it will just be like it was when I bought it with nothing on it. It is NTFS formatted, and I do not need any of the files anymore and it is just taking up free space and I want to clean everything out of it. Hope you understand what I am saying. I am fairly new to computers and do not want to mess the External HD up as it is fairly new, and I sure do not want to mess up my new computer I just bought. My new computer is a desktop NTFS formatted. Please help if you can. Thanks to all.
2006-12-19 02:38:49 · 2 answers · asked by Ex Head 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The simplest way would be to hook it up to your new computer and look in My Computer for the icon for the drive (D: or which ever one it is.) and then right click on it and choose the format option. It will format the drive and then it will be empty. There are other slightly more exotic ways to clear it also but since you say that you are fairly new to computers, they would probably be more hassle then help.
Good Luck with your drive.
2006-12-19 02:58:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hook it to your new computer,it will be allocated a letter.go to my computer,right click on the drive,formatt using ntfs.
2006-12-19 12:35:22 · answer #2 · answered by ibrahimoum 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋