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The first thing you need to know before formatting a computer is that formatting will delete all the data in the drive which you intent to format. You may format your entire system or format only selected drives. It depende on your needs and conditions. If you need to repartition (i.e., to reallocate spaces and change file systems) your disk, you may need to format more than one drives.
You need to make sure of the following things before formatting:
- Decide whether to format the whole disk or only selected drives.
- Take backup copies of all important data. You may use CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives or secondary hard disks. (Remember: formatting a drive erases all the data in it.)
You may do formatting in two ways:
- Use the bootable disk (CD or DVD) of any operating system like Windows xp or Ubuntu.
- Boot into an installed operating system and format selected drives (for example, by going to My computer in Windows OSs).
The first option should be used when you need to format either the whole hard disk or the drive in which your operating system is installed. The second option can be used when you don't need to format the drive in which operating system is not installed.
Another thing you need to know about is the file systems. You will be asked to select a file system when you are going to format. Windows operating systems usually use FAT-32 and NTFS file systems. Look in the related links section to know more about file systems. You need not worry much about file systems. Older versions of Windows used FAT-32 file system. NTFS was introduced with the Windows NT operating system.
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The owner of the computer.
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No.
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