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you can format your drive from DOS, but once you do that you wont have an operating system and your computer will be useless.
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Do you have to format hard drive without operation system to install windows xp?
No, XP will format the disk if that's needed.
How do you format a mac external hard drive to be compatible with windows7 without erasing the disk and without a mac?
If it's not formatted FAT32 already, you will have to format it to FAT32 which erases the data on the drive.
Can you burn a game to your XBOX 360 hard drive and play it from your hard drive without the disk?
no, you need the disk
How do you formate an external hard drive with the mac?
In the Applications folder is a folder called Utilities. In the Utilities folder is Disk Utility. Disk Utility will Erase / Partition / Format a hard drive.
Window xp not able to format hard disk drive?
to format the hard disk go to My computer perform right click go to manage will open the window computer Management->storage->Disk Management(local) select the disk drive right click and once again click onto the format button see to that the file system should be in NTFS format
20 What Windows utility can be used to partition and format a hard drive?
Disk management
What does 'HDD' stand for?
Hard Disk Drive.
Which windows xp utility is used to partition and format hard drives?
Go to control panel - administrative tools - disk management. There will be all the tools in a handy console to format and partition your hard drive.
How do you format a hard drive with Windows 95?
For any disk OTHER THAN THE ONE YOU BOOT FROM, simply open a command prompt and type: format d: (where "d" is the designator of the disk that you want to format) OR open windows explorer, select "my computer" then right click on the drive you want to format (again, it can't be the disk you boot from" If you want to format your C drive you'll need to boot from some other medium, such as the installation disk or a floppy.
After doing a low level format what would the next step in configuring the hard drive in the system?
partition hard disk
Is it possible to format hard drive without losing files on it?
No.
What is the other name for hard disk in architecture?
It is also known as Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Or Hard Disk Drive.
