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Depending on your hard drive. If it's a new external hard drive you should check to see if it's preformatted for your computer. For example I just bought a new LaCie drive for my Mac Powerbook. It already comes preformatted in HFS mode so I didn't have to do anything. Other external hard drives allow you to put files in a hard drive without formatting, but this can cause problems later on down the road. Some Mac who have Seagate external hard drives have reported a clicking noise and malfunctioning. I personally have had this experience as I was sharing it with a PC (Seagate doesn't recommend this). It wasn't formatted thus I couldn't put some simple stuff on the hard drive such as folders with folder icons! To format any hard drive, connect your hard drive to you Mac. Then open the disk utilities application that can be found in the utilities folder in the application folder. Select the hard drive you want to format. To find out the rest, Google it. haha. I kind of forget what which button to push, but it's fairly simple. I would recommend getting specific drives for PC and Mac. You can never be too safe when backing up your information. So far my LaCie works great and is quieter than my Seagate.
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∙ 15y agoYou should only format your hard drive when it is necessary to do so, such as when you need to reinstall Windows.
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After installing new hard drive on a compaq laptop it refuse to read the new one and keep asking to instore the hard drive what to do?
your hard drive is most likely not formatted. read owners manual on how to format the hard drive. you will lose eerything on the hard drive when you format it.
When you install a new hard drive for the master how can windows recogonize it?
A brand new hard drive must be formatted for any operating system to recognize it. You should have some kind of utility program to format a new hard drive that came with your operating system.
Do I have to format the hard drive when installing a new operating system?
yes you do.
How do you format hard drive on acer 5220 to get rid of vista?
You'd need to boot from some other drive and then use a utility to format the hard drive. One that you can get for free is called DBAN ("Darik's Boot and Nuke"), which will not only format the drive but completely erase everything that's on it. You'd then need to get some other installation media to install a new OS on the hard drive.
How do you reset your hard drive?
Formatting, there's no easier way to clean a Hard drive as new like formatting
Can you format your hard drive and install all your old programs and files from your old computer to your new hard drive?
Of course, copy all your programs and files you need from the old hard drive and put it on your new hard drive BEFORE formatting the old hard drive. Formatting your hard drive will mean losing everything and a slim chance of getting it all back.
You have windows vista installed if you remove and install a new hard drive can you put windows xp on it?
Yes. Actually, there is no need to remove the hard drive. You can format the existing hard drive and install XP on it as well. Note: Yes, you can there is no need to remove the hard drive. You can format the existing hard drive and install XP. and also you can install both opreting system single computer. XP and vista both.
Should I buy a new computer or a new hard drive?
Computer
What is the proper way to reformat a hard drive?
Reformat the hard drive like you would any other drive. If you want to remove the partition table and create a new one, or it is a new drive, then boot your system using a win98 bootable disk then type Fdisk hit enter. Then do what you want in FDisk. Otherwise skip to the next step. If you are in DOS, just do Format and then the drive letter, such as: Format C: If you want to create it as a bootable drive, make sure the drive is marked as Active in Fdisk (or whatever partition manager you use) and then do Format /s C: The /s means to install the OS loader files. Or, if you install or reinstall Windows, you should be given the options to clear the drive and/or partition and format it.
Upgrading a 4gb Xbox 360?
The new slim models can be upgraded with separately bought hard drive or you can mod your own for much cheaper buy formatting a laptop hard drive with the xbox format
How do you change hard drive settings to accept more than 4gb of file at a time?
The way a hard drive is formatted affects the largest file it can store. The file size limit of FAT32 formatted hard drive is 4GB, to increase this you would need to format your hard drive and make it use NTFS. Formatting a hard drive erase all the information on the hard drive! There are ways to avoid this, but I suggest you either get a new hard drive or get somebody to format part of your hard drive for you unlesss you know what you are doing Open an administrator command prompt and type convert x: /fs:ntfs where x: is the drive letter of your USB drive typ convert /? from more information
How do you transfer data from one PS3 to another?
you would have to remove the harddrive which is actually very easy You CANNOT just transfer the hard drive. The ps3 will format the new hard drive therefore erasing all data on the drive.
