How to Erase/Format/Wipe a New or Old Hard Drive in Windows XP
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- READ!!! Watch in HIGH QUALITY This is a tutorial on formatting a hard drive, or enabling a new one. First song: Is This It? - The Strokes Second Song: 12:51 - The Strokes FAQ (I'll build this up later): Q: It says drive is healthy, but it won't let me format! A: It is the drive you are running Windows on (usually C:/) and it cannot format itself. To format it, plug the drive into another computer and do it from there, are visit http://www.dban.org/ for Darik's boot and nuke software. Directions: How to Format/Erase a Hard Drive (For hard drives that are operational and not currently running Windows XP) First, you should check your current hard drives, navigate to My Computer As you can see, I have two active hard drives right now, My local disk, which is running Windows XP, and my MainStorage, where I put my video and music. However, I just added one to make three total hard drives... now I need to enable and format it. (You don't need to format, but chances are your salvaging an old hard drive anyway) Lets start... Follow this path: 1. Start 2. Right Click My Computer 3. Select Manage 4. On the left side, click storage 5. Select Disk Management under storage This will now show the hard drives in use currently at the top (Mine says C: and MainStorage) The bottom portion lists all the drives plugged in to the computer, notice I have four (Disk 0, Disk 1, Disk 2, and CD-ROM Drive Disk 0 and 2 are the drives I'm using now, Disk 1 is the new hard drive I just plugged in. (It should say unallocated, but if you want to format a drive in use, it will say healthy) For people with unallocated drives: 1. Right click unallocated drive 2. Select "New Partition" 3. Hit "Next" 3 times w/out changing anything 4. Choose the letter drive you want (doesn't matter) 5. Hit Next 6. Check "Format this partition" 7. Put File System at NTFS 8. Put Allocation Unit Size at Default 9. Put the name of the drive you want (i.e. Storage) under Volume Label 10. Don't check compress or quick format 11. Hit Next, then Finish 12. The drive is now
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