How do you clean off a hard drive and take ti down to DOS?

Answer 1

to format a hard drive open 'my computer' right click the drive letter you want and choose 'Format' This will clean off the hard drive and delete all your data. This will only work if your talking about any drive except the one windows is installed on. If you want to format C:\ and reinstall Windows, Linux, etc.. then just boot off the Setup disc for the operating system you want (like the WinXP Setup Disc) and it will format the drive for you before reinstalling windows. There is no need to get into DOS which no longer exists in WinXP (only the 'command prompt' which isn't true DOS and runs inside windows) If you want to format and do some other stuff such as partitioning or changing the file system try getting the software 'Partition Magic' or for a free solution:

Go to: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Boot from this new CD (inserting disc and rebooting, if this does not work go into BIOS and change boot order to check cd/dvd drive before hard drive) The disc will bring you into a program called Gparted which does formating, partitioning, and file system changes for you. It is very easy to use and features a nice graphical interface. Once done, save changes, and reboot.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

in case you have noises from the force or there is extreme activity, to be secure, first BackUp. After that uninstall even though courses you won't choose. Uncheck courses you dont prefer initiating from the startup checklist. next run a disk cleanup. in many cases slow responding courses, lags, freezes etc are warning signs of a heavily fragmented force. If its been a together as for the reason which you checked this, thats the subsequent job to end. learn the force and notice how badly cluttered it fairly is, how lots unfastened area you have etc.it's going to make a good distinction after a spring clean is complete.

Answer 3

Whatever dos install disk you get or make will have partitioning and formatting utilities on it. A Win98 or WinMe rescue disk will do the work of partitioning, formatting and installing a basic dos system on the hard drive.

Answer 4

Easiest way is if you have the Windows CD that came with your PC, use it to delete the partition already on it. If you don't have the CD, use GParted to delete the partition. After that, download a version of DOS from the net and simply install it on the drive.

You can get GParted here:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

You can get a version of DOS on CD ROM Image from here:

http://winworldpc.com/

Look under "Downloads" and select "Operating Systems". From there, select "DOS" and click on "MS-DOS 6.22 CD-ROM". Then burn the image to a CD.

Answer 5

Lo último que compre fue un hard disk externo, siempre han sido de calidad los productos que he comprado en los sitios web pero esta compra ha pasado mis expectativos, un transporte muy rápido y un producto excelente de buena marca a un precio sin igual, seguramente la mejor compra.

Answer 6

to clean it to dos, download a copy of freedos of the net.
then, get a 20$ disk wiping program, wipe the drive.
Then, install freedos.

Answer 7

First, I would use DBAN to clean the drive:
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Then I would install freedos:
http://www.freedos.org/

Answer 8

If your hard drive had XP on it, there is no DOS. XP simulates it, but DOS itself does not exist.

Answer 9

Easy. Format it, then install DOS.

Answer 10

boot from a 98 boot floppy and type fdisk ...