Compaq Presario. Windows ME want to delete everything.
2007-06-09 00:33:24 · 6 answers · asked by rl16jr 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
It wont let me format it says that windows is using files. Please help.
2007-06-09 00:46:52 · update #1
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2007-06-09 00:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is if you use a Windows tool to reformat, it will be very easy to recover everything back after the format. If totally erasing the hard drive is important, I would download an ISO image of SystemRescueCD -- one of several bootable CDs for Linux. The SystemRescueCD will come with gParted. gParted is a graphical representation of the partition(s) on your hard drive. Put a couple of new partitions on the drive with that tool -- format to ext3 (a linux file format). Merge the partitions back to one, format to NTSF and one more time, reformat to ext3 with a couple of new partitions.
The partitioning is very important. And, if you can format the MBR -- the first 2-4 meg on the drive, that is the best of all.
In truth, it takes 99 reformats to completely wipe out a disk so that even Federal forensic tools are delegated to worthless efforts. Reformatting linux on top of Win is a great scrambler though. THAT disc rescue program, one that will sniff a soup mixture of two OS hasn't been written yet.
2007-06-09 07:58:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just format your Hard disk
2007-06-09 07:40:59 · answer #3 · answered by DAURO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-06-09 08:06:19 · answer #4 · answered by Todd J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just format the c:
2007-06-09 07:37:46 · answer #5 · answered by rohith s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
double click on my computer, Right click on local disk c: and go to properties and click format.
2007-06-09 07:43:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋