Erasing a hard drive WELL on a machine with Windows 7 and 8

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  Since your laptop is still under warranty, you can call HP and ask if you can get the discs sent free.

  If a game costs in the neighborhood of $16.00.

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• How to transfer files on an internal hard drive XP base to work with Windows 7

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  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/Windows7

  Link above is Windows 7 Forum for questions on Windows 7.

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• How to erase the hard drive, foreign State in T630 with H730 PERC controller

  I recently bought a Poweredge T630 Server computer configured with a PERC H730 controller and two 1 TB SATA (raid 1) drives.

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• ThinkPad R60 cannot install Windows XP After erasing the HARD drive using the lenovo diagnostic utility

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• reformat and erase/wipe hard drive

  Hi friends,

  I'm about to make a donation or to throw my old Dell desktop that is running Windows XP, sp3 (what that is the possibility arises first ).  I'm sorry that I don't remember the name of the model (for the moment).  But anyway, what I understand, I need to delete all the data, to protect my private life of anyone who might want to use it after I'm done with it.

  The research I've done, looks like I need to uninstall and remove programs, documents, pictures, music, etc., as much as possible and record everything I want to keep a cd drive or usb.  Then to start the delete process, first I have to reformat the hard drive.  After that, I need to "sweep" it.  I guess I wouldn't be surprised of this paradoxical terminology, but it IS annoying.  I'm talking about it wiping of the process which does not remove anything, but rather replaces the disk, at least a few times, to have my most difficult to recover data .

  Could someone me directly to the appropriate instructions for reformatting the hard drive please?  Or if there is an article or something about this whole process, which you could link me to, that would be great.

  Also, I looked for a program to make wiping.  There are those who are free and more expensive.  I prefer free, unless they are just not worth it.  All of you have recommendations for wiping program?

  Actually, come to think of it, I could still be able to use the computer.  Once I refortmat hard drive, isn't that kind of start over with a clean slate as?  If I couldn't reinstall WinXP right back?   Or I wonder if I could install Win7?  My most recent computer running Win7, so I should have the cd somewhere.  Although this old computer has only 1.24 GB of ram.  So maybe not Win7, but even with XP, I could at least still use the printer that is connected to it.  (The printer and its software are probably too old to run on my newer computer.)  As long as I do not plan to use the internet, there is no security issues with this os to an old/old help... right?

  Thanks for your help

  Hi Brynn4,

  Just to add to the comments of rdunnill, I'm guessing that you can't pay for a new operating system for a computer that is worth less that the license will cost you. My suggestion would be to wipe the drive and perform a new installation of XP if you have the XP Dell installation disk. There are many free utilities that can erase the hard drive safely. You DO NOT need to uninstall anything before formatting the disk.

  Otherwise, I would restore the original hard disk image if you do not have a Dell XP disc.

  And Yes, I understand that Microsoft ends in favor of XP, but there are many people who use computers for non-critical tasks that would be happy to put more than a few miles on your old desktop computer.

• How do I completely erase the hard drive and reinstall everything for Windows 7?

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  Wanda Gill

  Some read to you... Installation of Windows 7

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  But before you begin, make sure that your computer and the applications and the current programs are Windows 7 friendly...

  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4BD9-9e51-2497c146af15

  And check your programs here too...

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/Windows-7/en-us/default.aspx?type=software

• I had to erase my hard drive, lost everything, but I re-installed windows 7 and it would not accept my key.

  I had to erase my hard drive, lost everything, but I re-installed windows 7 and it would not accept my key, do I have to buy a new key?

  Original title: Activation of Windows 7?

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  Click the link x days before activation.

  Click on the link that says: "show me other ways to activate.

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  Click next

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  Click Next when you enter your key page

  Select your country

  Click Next, call the number listed

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  Provide the installation generated when ID requested by the call agent

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  Click next to complete the activation.

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  15 UPDATES. To use upgrade software, you must first be licensed for the software that is eligible for the upgrade. After the upgrade, this agreement takes the place of the agreement for the software that you upgraded. After upgrade, you can no longer use the software that you upgraded.

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  or

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

• Convert a hard drive to a virtual machine

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  Thank you

  Dave

  If you want to try the converter, just fix the disk on a physical host somewhere and run a normal conversion.

  Once you have done this, create a new empty virtual machine with no disc and you fix vmdk for the reader you want migrated to this new virtual machine. Chances are that you will get the normal NT Loader boot error when you try to start, but you should be able to solve this problem using a fo the following:

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  Good luck and please feed back.

• Partitions of hard drive on a virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a few questions related to the hard drive on a virtual machine.

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  Thanks to AdvanceSalahuddin

  1. Yes.  Treat your virtual machine exactly as you would with a physical.

  2. yet once, as you would in a physical installation.  When you add a hard drive, you must go in disk management, select the new drive, create a partition on it and format the partition.

• How can I erase my hard drive on a Dimension 3000? Please help soon.

  I need to COMPLETELY wipe my hard drive.  I use the "Dell reinstallation Cd Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2". How can I use the disk to erase my hard drive. And after that, I have to reinstall all drivers and others. As montors, CHIPsets, Etc and.

  When I try. It asks the next question.

  Installation of Microsoft XP Edition family

  ____________________________

  ____________________________

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  Remove a? If so, which. I am a noob on this Yes, you can be VERY detailed.

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• How to erase my hard drive to start over?

  I have a laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium with a bunch of software.  My laptop last year became very slow and slower so I want to wipe my hard drive and start from scratch.  All my information is backed up on an external hard drive so I can recover my Outlook PST and so on.

  How do I reformat and wipe my hard drive, so I can recharge all along?

  Happy to help you.

  Thanks for the reply. Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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  I did a search on assignments earlier re. Satellite Pro 4200 and computers portable 4300 series as various other contributors of this forum had already asked this question. A respondent suggested that they had installed a 60 GB HARD disk without problem.

  Someone at - it else mounted a big HARD drive (or more even) in these notebooks series 4200 and 4300 and managed to do work OK and had the BIOS to recognize the total size of the HARD drive?

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