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Can you load an operating system in a hard drive that has not been formatted?
Jodiannrussell
No. Operating systems need the system to be formatted / partitioned in order to properly arrange and store their data on the disk.
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Can a mac execute software that been installed by the PC on the external drive?
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What software do you need to install on a new HDD?
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How can one recover information from a broken formatted drive?
In order to retrieve information from a drive that is been formatted and broken you will need to use two pieces of software. Use GetDataBack to access the broken drive and iCare Format Recovery to unformat your drive.
My disc says its full when there is nothing on it?
Disc = DVD or CD or Hard disk?? If its a DVD or CD then the chances are it has been formatted incorrectly. If its a hard disk then it probably has not been partitioned correctly or the disk partition is damaged, or the drive has not been formatted correctly
What section of the hard disk that's been formatted to hold files?
physical file system
Which windows XP command line utility scans the critical files of the operating system and replaces any files that have been corrupted?
chkdsk [drive:] /F
What should you do if you get the error message invalid drive or drive specifications?
Well that kind of depends on what changed. If it is a new hard drive and it has not been partitioned and formatted yet, then you have to boot up to the CD ROM with your operating system so it can partition and format. If nothing has changed it could be anything from a corrupt Master Boot Record to dead hard drive. Try this, put your original Windows into your CD and you will have to boot to that CD ROM first, let the Windows CD run like it is loading, eventually it will stop and ask if you want to load or repair. Click on repair. If that doesn't do it, I can't tell you absolutely to reload the Operating system because that will wipe out any files and programs you have...you may want to take it to the PC repair shop. Using the wrong drive letter.
What does a formatting disk do?
The harddisk (aka hardrive) being reformated refers to the process of reinstalling the operating system. This is basically a process of taking your computer, and installing it like it was the first day you got it, with nothing on it, no software, plugins. It is completely cleaned. Formatting a disk will erase anything in it and installs information that tells the computer Operating System how to locate everything on the disk. This is true for floppy disks, hard drives, CD's and DVD's, however each is slightly different in how it prepares these. Formatting a flash drive or usb drive is the same thing as any other hard drive or disk. Formatting by definition is a brand new disk or usb flash drive that has not been formatted by the manufacture. This is just getting the disk ready to receive information and setting it up for your computers operating system to read the information. Re- formatting is when a disk or usb flash drive has been already formatted-but you are either needing a clean disk or a format that the operating system you are using can read. Re-formatting is probably what you are referring to and this will erase everything "including Viruses", and prepares the disk for a clean install or new information. With any formatting the computer is checking for bad sectors and fixing or moving them so that the disk is ope-ratable. So basically any formatting on any recordable disk is basically cleaning and removing old information, and getting it ready for new information.
If you have format your computer only c drive now you want some files of your documents how to get back that files?
If your files were on that C: drive, then they are pretty much gone. There are programs that will attempt recovery of formatted drives but if anything at all has been written to the drive you can forget about it. If the files were on a different physical drive and you really only formatted C: then the files should still be present and available for access.
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How can you tell if a CD-R has been formatted?
CD-R can't be formatted. (erased)
