format drive

I managed to retrieve my HP external drive from being a recovery drive. I finally got through to Dell tech support and they took files off. As an aside, I knew if I could format it it would erase everything and I could use it again. The Dell person did just that but I couldn't - I right clicked...

For some time now run a dual boot pc for some time now with Win 7 and Win 10 tech preview. I have upgraded to Win 10. So now what I want to do is uninstall the tech preview and the boot menu. I could just format the tech preview drive but would that leave my boot up clean with just the Win 10...

Yesterday I felt that my windows xp is corrupted due to which my browsers was not able to open any website. So i decided to format my c drive. When I started format procedure and file started formatting my c drive I noticed that instead of formatting c drive d drive is started formatting to...

preface, i am fairly competant with this stuff. with win 95, 98, and xp i could boot into DOS and use commands to overwrite files and get problems fixed. but can't do that any longer.... i have an Link Removed and the only thing after market as of now (i jerked out a lot of stuff) on the MoBo...

I've got a situation that has completely puzzled me, wondering if anyone can help. My friend asked me to fix her laptop, which has been failing to boot, getting as far as the blue Windows 7 login screen then hanging. The login UI doesn't load, it's just the blue background. I tried to...

I really need help on this one. I formatted my hard drive to reinstall windows and for some reason when I reboot the computer after installing from the DVD it won't go further than a black screen... I tried to boot off the hard drive but that wouldn't work. :( I have all my important files on...

I recently just formatted my harddrive. It went from Windows Vista to Windows 7. When I first installed windows 7, I selected the clean install, but it saved the old files in old.windows. I decided to format the drive and start fresh. Through ALL of these installs, I've had blue screens. I...

Hi! Ever since a botched encryption which resulted in me having to format a drive (not the main c drive), everything I download gives this message when I try to open it - "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified." I've tried changing the download location to...

So that's the basic version of my problem, here's how it happened. I was modding Morrowind and I added one too many which broke it, so I uninstalled it, thinking i could just re-install it. But then it didnt work, so i used uniblue registry booster to clean my system registry, and after that no...

How do I best erase all my stuff from my old HP laptop running vista? Can I format the drive and still have only the HP and Vista stuff left or should I do a restore?

Hi, My PC (Windows 7) has two internal hard drives (C & D) and "C" is reserved for the operating system;" D" for my Data. For some time, I have also had two external "USB 2" hard drives (250GB & 500 GB), which recently, I have replaced by two "USB 3" One TB WD My Book 3 Essentials hard...

I have 3 operating systems on my Computer. Drive C is Active and Primary and has Win Xp. Drive D has Wind 7 Drive E is used for my data and backups. after that i installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. i have the concepts about the boot loader. i dont want to keep XP now. and want to format...

installed windows 7 ultimate(tried both 64 and 32 bit) to my pc. but after installation when it reboots for the 1st time, it shows a black screen with the mouse pointer. i waited 1/2 hour but no use.:frown: my pc config core2quad q6600, asus P5KVM, 2 gb ddr2 ram, nvidia 9600gt 512mb and 380 gb...

Hi! I need to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, again. (if you recall my last post, you know why :) ) I'm going to wipe the drive and reformat and then reinstall Windows 7. My problem is that I have some games installed which have rather large updates that I had to DL (took an hour...

I'm running windows 7 (Release candidate) and I have a usb that is requesting a format and certain occurred as a result of the usb getting an electric shock. How? I had the usb plugged into my laptop while it was switched on and I plugged in an ethernet cable to the laptop. It happened as I...

I have 3 drives C:\Windows7 D:\Stuff - Windows Easy Transfer backup X:\WindowsXP External SATA backup I have installed Windows 7 twice and I cannot get it to boot from C:. I get errors saying the boot manager is missing. I have to boot from X: and select Windows 7 from the boot manager. I tried...

hello to everyone, First of all i want to say thanks in advanced to any person who helps me with the problem I am about to present to your guys. I have two hard disk drive(not 1 with 2 partition), first HDD 55GB with Windows Vista Ultimate, and the second HDD 460GB it used to be empty. I...

I did a clean install of Win7 Home Premium form an XP system. Don't ask why but my old XP system was on F: drive. I installed the Win7 on C: drive. Now at startup it keeps asking which OpSystem I want to boot from. I tried formatting F: but it will not let me. How can I a) Get rid of the...

hello, i have recently installed win7 (which is AWESOME!!!) on J:\ and have my earlier VISTA (which is crap ;) installed on C:\ as shown below. HDD1 - 1TB C:\ - 200gig has VISTA D:\ - 800gig has just files HDD2 - 1TB J:\ - 200gig has win7 H:\ - 800gig has just files note that each...

Hi Im Manjula- i have a Big Problem i wanna Format my C:/ drive and Clean install Windows 7 beta.. im inserted W7 DVD and restarted my computer.. bt doesn't Boot From Windows 7 DVD ... My first boot Devise is DVD rom.second Boot Devise is HDD... i m soo tired plzzz plz any one help me...