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Which windows xp utility is used to partition and format hard drives?
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Go to control panel - administrative tools - disk management. There will be all the tools in a handy console to format and partition your hard drive.
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20 What Windows utility can be used to partition and format a hard drive?
Disk management
How do you format windows vista when an error keep coming up that keeps saying can not format this volume of windows you are using this operating system?
You cannot format the drive / partition that Windows Vista is currently running on while it is running. You will need to boot from either a partition utility disc, such as GParted, or the install disc of the operating system you want to install, and format the drive from there.
How to partition the hard drive of Mac Pro with mountain lion os x?
Use Disk Utility to format or partition hard drives. You should back up the drive before formatting or partitioning.
What windows utility can be used to partition and format a hard drive?
Simplified Answer:Diskpart and Format from command prompt. Disk Management from the shell.Original:Master Boot Record (MBR) I do not believe this is the utility. An MBR is only an initialization area created on a hard drive, which loads an OS boot program stored in the OS boot record. It also includes the partition table and list of all locations and descriptions.The utility used to partition and format a hard drive I believe is Disk Management. It will allow you to convert, format and create extended partitions and create logical drives.----------------------------Disk Management is correct. You can also use partitioning software such as PartitionMagic by Symantec
Where can you download utility to partition and format a new WD Caviar Green 1 TB drive?
You can download a computer utility to partition and format a new WD Caviar Green 1 TB drive, via Download.com.
What is the purpose maxblast software?
MaxBlast is a utility that comes with Maxtor branded hard drives that assists in the installation of a new hard drive. The MaxBlast utility will partition and format a drive, and/or install drive overlay software if your computer's BIOS is too old to recognize hard drives over a certain size.
If you format your hard drive will you lose the Windows XP programme will you lose your internet cofiguration settings and have to connect it again?
If you format the partition where windows files are located, you will loose all data on the partition.
Which utility is used to partition a new hard drive in windows98?
Fdisk. Windows 98 cd's are not bootable (for the most part) so in order to partition a new hard disk in preparation of a windows 98 install, you will need to make a boot floppy (or boot CD, or USB) which will enable you to partition and format the disk for windows install. Follow the link below for some disk images, utilities, and workarounds for the windows 98 bootdisk dilemma.
You accidentally partitioned your c drive and installed windows xp. how do i uninstall windows xp from the c drive and then unpartition the drives?
You cannot reverse such process especially after you have installed the os. But if you remember the old partition size you can format the disk again, delete partitions which you don't need and create a partition which you want to have.
How many file system are there in one hard drive?
Most hard drives have only one partition. Each partition is formatted according to one file system. So most hard drives have only one file system. However, many hard drives have two or more partitions. One common approach is to "dual boot" a computer, with Linux on one partition in the ext4 file system format, and Windows on another partition in the NTFS file system.
What is the function of FORMAT command?
FORMAT is a Microsoft command-line utility that is used for disk formatting. The function of the command prompt is to format a partition of the file system.
What can and can't you do with Disk Management?
You can format drives and partitions that are not in use by the system, but you can not extend the size of a partition.
