I have Windows on a hard drive, and I need to remove it so I can make an extrenal hard drive! How do I do this??
2007-05-11 10:44:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Not sure why you'd need to remove Windows. You will still be able to access the data. If you're just wanting a clean drive you'll need to find a system disk that will allow you to format the drive.
2007-05-11 10:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by Idaila 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to turn an internal hard drive into an external drive, then you need a IDE to USB adapter (called an enclosure) first. This is also the easiest step to erasing what's currently on the drive.
After buying the enclosure, install the hard drive, then plug it into a USB port. The computer will see the drive, automatically install software, and open the list of files. You can either just delete everything (should work) or format the now external drive (will work).
2007-05-11 10:50:27 · answer #2 · answered by svancouw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
confident all data would be lost and no you may not get admission to xp purchasers you will might desire to re do each difficulty for the hot os Make a backup of all your individual data, till now you install living house windows 7 besides as getting all drivers till now so which you've got replica proper difficulty is to apply a exterior tricky force
2016-12-11 06:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by kreitman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need to remove XP first. When you hook the drive up to a computer as an external drive, go into "Disk Manager" and reformat it.
2007-05-11 10:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
As long as you didnt boot from that drive, you simply format it while its in the external casing.
2007-05-11 10:51:27 · answer #5 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judt install it in the case then delete the files
2007-05-11 10:47:02 · answer #6 · answered by frank21142226 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are many options to do, u can either format it, or go down to windows ME, or vista, you can go up, but its harder to go down. just re format it, and you might see a screen that says
"no operating system found"
2007-05-11 12:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just format it.
It is quicker than deleting everything.
2007-05-11 10:49:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
reformat your hard drive.
2007-05-11 10:49:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋