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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
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.
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.
a long time its hard to drive alot
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.
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.
Yes. Operating systems can read any hard drive (as long as the drive is not corrupt)
To recover data from a RAW hard drive the hard drive must be intact in some way. Connect the damaged hard drive as the slave drive and another hard drive that is in working order as the master drive. This should allow for file transfer as long as the RAW drive is not too far damaged.