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Will reformatting your hard drive delete your OS and main programs?
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∙ 15y ago
Yep. If you reformat you hard dive, every thing is deleted.
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Does formatting the hard drive delete the operating system?
Yes.
What are small programs stored on the hard drive that tells the computer how to communicate with specific hardware device such as printer network card or modem?
Drivers.
What part of the computer that stores all programs and operating system?
I am assuming you're asking what part of the computer sotres data in general. Well that would be the computers hard drive. To learn more about hard drives, go to www.howstuffworks.com and search "hard drives".
How can you boot the operating system on an IBM ThinkPad 570 without the hard drive?
How do you get a computer to boot up with no hard drive? What are the steps or what is the process of getting a hard drive installed into your computer if it is not bootable because of a missing hard drive.
What is important but nonessential part of the operating system are stored on the computers what?
hard drive
Does reformatting your internal hard drive also delete your operating system such as Windows XP Vista or 7?
If that is what your operating system is installed on, yes.
Is deleting or reformatting a hard drive an acceptable procedure for sanitizing a hard drive?
No. The clearing process is not an acceptable method of sanitizing unclassified hard disks.
What can you delete off of an old hard drive that you have made into an external hard drive without losing music movie files Ie Setup programs old windows programs?
I strictly want to use the hard drive for music/ movies now and am trying to free up as much room as possible but is it okay to delete all the set up files and stuff like that.... I put it in a hard drive enclosure for those wondering
Why does my external hard drive work in Linux but not in Windows?
The most likely reason is that the drive was formatted with a Linux file system. Reformatting the drive to NTFS or FAT32 will make the drive usable in Windows. You could also install an ext4 driver in Windows to access the drive without reformatting it.
Are there consequences to reformatting over and over?
Yes, your hard drive wears off faster, as result it can fail earlier.
How do you delete from the internal hard drive?
you click on what you want to delete and then drag it to delete =)
How do you get a CD out of the hard drive?
delete it
How do you delete things of hard drive?
Click on the item and then hit delete
Is it okay to reformat a drive at least once a month?
It should be fine, the question is why you need to do so frequently. WARNING! Reformatting your hard disk will wipe out ALL data, including Windows, programs, etc. If you don't have a Windows recovery CD or an original Windows installation CD, you will not be able to re-install Windows. Some systems come with a Windows restore partition which will not be wiped out by reformatting the hard disk.
How do you remove a partition on a hard drive running Windows 2000 without reformatting the hard disk?
There are several partitioning products available that are easy and intuitive to use.
If you download Ubuntu do you lose all your programs?
By itself, downloading Ubuntu will not delete anything. However, if you tell the Ubuntu installer to erase your hard drive before installing, you will lose all your programs.
Can you remove all viruses from a hard drive reinstall desired programs and run satisfatorily by reformatting the drive.?
Yes, you can. But you have to be aware of so called "boot sector viruses". You need kill them before new system installation, if you don't the freshly installed operating system will be infected immediately.
