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Western digital wd800 hard drive that was given to you you would like to reformat and install in your compaq PC so you can put windows xp on it how do you do this?
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∙ 16y ago
XP has its own formatting program inbuilt into the operating system. Therefore there is no need for you to format it externally.
If you were given a drive, on a personal level, i would first zero the drive. Using a program called Kill Disc. This writes 0's on every sector of the drive. This is to be 100% sure, that there is no data on the drive from whom ever gave it to you. Ie bank details etc.
I come across this all the time in my job, and always do it, on every single drive that comes into me.
If it was a normal xp format, then it is possible to recover the data. Hence the reason for a full zero.
This stops all the usual ways of recovery.
Better to be safe than sorry.....
Hope this helps, if I can help any more, please dont hesitate to shout.
Be safe
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