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No guarantee can ever be given that you will not have problems, for anything. As long as your hard drive is in working order and you partition the drive correctly, ubuntu shouldn't have any problems installing.
either your hard drive is going bad, or your doing a full format witch writes all 0s to the hard disk if you do a quick format it just deletes the registry and the information is over written. It is always better to do a quick long format
If you are going to format the drive first then there are two possibilities: 1. You have all system and personal files on one drive. In this case you would lose all your files. 2. You have system files and personal files on different drives. In this case you would only lose the files on the drives that you format. As long as you don't format the drive with your personal files on it you won't lose them.
as long as theres enough room on the smaller hard drive...then yes..
You'll need to boot from the installation CD then format the C drive from there. Note: you'll loose everything on the disk if you do that. ---- As long as you have an operating system disk you can also go to run: cmd: then type format (drive:) then push enter and when it asks you to deletey your internal memory then hit Y for yes or N for no. Remember this will delete everything on your hard drive so you would have to reinstall windows.
depends how fast your computer is, but generally it takes around five minutes.
Yes, as long the hard disk drive is not NTFS formatted.
IT depends on your recording format. 8 gig. should hold four 2 hour DVD movies in the mpeg format. However, if you go to some type of compressed format, like .avi or some other system (Divx) it could be considerably more.
a long time its hard to drive alot
depends on the type of drive, but as long as the drive is kept away from magnets and at the proper temperature and humidity it should last a decade or two.
Data from a RAW hard drive can be recovered by using reliable data recovery software that scans the disk and rebuilds the lost file system or extracts files directly from the drive. It is important not to format the drive before recovery, as this may reduce the chances of successful data restoration. Now Data Recovery Services: Bangalore, India.
Yes. Operating systems can read any hard drive (as long as the drive is not corrupt)