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The simple way to clean and remove every data including OS from your hard drive is to perform the low level formating or zero fill task using windows 98 bootable disk. It is a time taking job but it is reliable and resonable.

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Can you use two operating systems on two hard disks in such a way that you use one hard disk at a time and use two hard disks in the same computer in such a way that you use only hard disk at a time t?

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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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Does a system disk have to be a floppy disk?

No. A "system disk" is simply any disk which the computer can boot from and has an operating system installed on it. In most modern computer systems, the hard disk is normally the system disk. However most systems can also boot from a floppy disk, a cdrom, or even a USB thumb drive, providing of course that the media in question has the necessary system files on it. Many older systems did not have the ability to boot from the cdrom drive or USB drives. On these systems the only options were booting from the hard disk or floppy disk, so if the OS hadnt been installed to the hard disk yet (or it was broken) the only other option was the floppy disk.


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