2007-04-03 05:57:47 · 6 answers · asked by bruvvamoff 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Right-click My Computer, Manager, Disk Manager on the left. Right-click drive to erase and click format. If format is grayed out, then windows is running on that drive and you can't format it from here. Make sure and do a full format NOT a quick format. Say bye to everything on it.
2007-04-03 06:05:13 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have another drive already setup, then you can go ahead and install it. Now what you need to do is a format, just format the whole drive High-format. Now encrypted data will still be there, although you cant access it with out the right program but if you low-format everything will be erased and noone can recover anything, then just high format into NTFS, and your done.
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2007-04-03 13:05:39 · answer #2 · answered by The Tech GUy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the harddrive is in a computer that will not be running any OS this will be difficult, however you may take the harddrive out and encase it for USB transfer...
I believe that you are going to have two hard drives in the PC one running windows and one not, if this is the case a simple my computer >> format on the external drive will be sufficent, this is also a working option for harddrive encasing for USB transfer.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102 - Thats a product that you would use to make the hard drive an external drive....
2007-04-03 13:07:45 · answer #3 · answered by Brian * 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once you back up any important files you want to keep, reboot the computer with a boot disk* and then from the Command Promt type: "format X:" where X is the letter of the drive you want blank.
* Boot Disk - You can use a Windows 98 Start Up Disk for this. or you can go download one at: Boot Disk.com - http://www.bootdisk.com/
2007-04-03 13:10:37 · answer #4 · answered by Frankie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't care about security just reformat it, right click the drive and pick format if you have another drive with windows, or just type format (driveletter): from the dos prompt. If you care about security get a program to low level format it (most drives manufacturers have a program on their website to low level format their drives)
2007-04-03 13:04:58 · answer #5 · answered by y2bmj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you wipe out windows you can't use it... but anyway go to
my computer...
click on the C drive
scroll down to Windows
Then scrool down until you see System 32 file
Delete it...
now everything is gone
2007-04-03 13:16:55 · answer #6 · answered by butterflygurl085 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋