How can I erase hard drive?

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• How can I erase hard disk dive

  How can I erase diving hard drive that windows will not open on

  "Wiping" a hard drive can not be done from Windows, if you are referring to the drive on which Windows is installed, so that Windows will not open is not a problem.

  You must use a utility that sits on its own bootable media.  Two of the most popular free tools are

  DBAN--> http://dban.org/download

  Active KillDisk--> http://www.killdisk.com/features.htm

  Although the two products have free or commercial versions, the free version of KillDisk has a few more features (for example, works on the SSD, it's not the DBAN).

• How can I erase the drive hard so that I can sell my HP Pavillion/Windows XP/3 GB ram/512 MB hard drive?

  I need help wiping my hard drive, so I can sell my computer

  Hello

  You can use the process below to completely erase your hard drive, but you must have your game that recovery disks to reinstall the operating system if you want to sell it with XP installed.

  Download and install Killdisk on the link below - (this application will write zeros to the entire disk).

  http://software.lsoft.net/KillDiskSuiteFree-Setup.exe of

  Download and install ImgBurn on the link below.

  http://download.CNET.com/ImgBurn/3000-2646_4-10847481.html

  Access the application of disc kill you have installed in all programs, open the main folder, then select Bootable Disk creators, then the BACK Bootable CD Creator that will burn the ISO on a blank CD bootable.

  During the following process do not worry about all warnings as your recovery DVDs will reformat the HARD drive.

  Insert this CD into yout laptop. Close Notepad, and then start again to boot from the CD of Killdisk and follow the instructions on the screen to kill disk.

  A brief description of the process here is Killdisk.

  Use it to wipe the entire hard drive, Select (80 h) and press f10 (you will also need to type a confirmation and press enter) - ( This will make sure to include all of the partitions , and then start the process - this may take a few hours!).

  When the process is complete, remove the CD of Killdisk, insert your first HP recovery disc and restart the computer to start the installation.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• How can I erase the drive hard when I can't read the screen of the monitor?

  I need to wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows xp but I can not "cmd" promp because I can't read the monitor

  What do you mean that you can not read the monitor? Is the black screen or it seems weird when you start the operating system? And why do you need command prompt to reinstall an operating system?

  You need not be inside an operating system to reinstall.

  1. Insert the installation disc and turn on your computer
  2 watch it down or up for orders of F access the BIOS (usually F2) or the Startup Manager (usually F12)
  3 power on the system again, then press the button once Startup Manager as a couple at the time wherever you turn on the computer.
  4. Select the CD/DVD drive as the boot device
  5. a screen will come in saying to press a key to boot from CD (so press a key) and the installation will begin.

  If you don't have a Boot Manager, then you must start in the BIOS or Setup and move the CD/DVD drive up to make the first boot device.

• Can't erase hard drive MacBook Pro - "could not disassemble the drive.

  I lost my original install discs Mountain Lion. Spin a MacBook Pro (2011 model).

  I found some articles that show you how to remove & reinstall everything without use of the physical disks. It is to restart my MacBook, pressing command-R, will using this toerase my hard drive and disk utilities

  However, when I try to wipe my drive, this error message appears: "erase disc failed with the error: failed to unmount disk.»

  I have attached a picture of the error that is displayed.

  On the left side of the utility window of disc (see attachment), there where hard disks are displayed, it shows the drive of 500 GB Toshiba MK. Directly below is the option "Macintosh HD."

  This error ONLY appears when I try to erase the disc from Toshiba. But this allowed me to erase the hard drive Macintosh option. Why is this? My drive was nonetheless erased? Or I still have to do something else?

  Thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

  

  Please check this thread: Erase disc failed with the error: failed to unmount the drive. Mavericks running

• How can I change hard drive icon images?

  I have a strange problem that has just occurred in Windows 7.

  I have several hard drives internal and 1 external hard drive.  The external hard drive has always had its own unique icon and internal hard drives all have the same icon image.

  But somehow, the external drive now has an image of the icon of an internal hard drive, and my biggest drive, a HD 1.5 TB, shows the icon used previously by the external hard drive.

  I can't understand why this happened, or how to redefine the way it was.  Don't pose any problem of performance, its just confusing because I saw this image external drive so long I'll automatically for the picture if my computer or Explorer and now that means that I often select the wrong drive.

  I click on properties > customize and select change image folder, then select a hard drive icon I want for each player, but he never changes the icon.  And I'm pointing to an appropriate *.ico icon image file.

  Anyone has any ideas on this issue?

  Thank you.

  Move the Autorun.inf file and the Mxoicon6.ico file on your external hard drive, and restart the computer. Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience

• How can I reformat hard drive, LaCie Rugged All-Terrain?

  I was using the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Disk to back up my MacBook Pro.  He has stopped responding to Time machine.  Does not recognize it when I plug it.  I replaced it with a Seagate, but would like to reformat the LaCie and see if it will work.  When I plug the drive into the usb port, the Mac does not meet the LaCie well I can hear the LaCie.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

  Hi TreeTipsx2,

  I understand that you want to clear your LaCie hard drive. I know it's important to have control over your data, so I am pleased to provide you with information to help with this.

  Although he is not able to see the hard drive in the Finder, you can always delete it if we see it in disk utility. Read this article on the subject:

  Disk utility (El Capitan): delete a volume

  Thank you for using communities of Apple Support, cheers!

• Satellite Pro A300D - How can I recover HARD drive?

  HI Newbie here.

  Put on the machine this morning and it just says: disk error - press DELETE Cnt, was talking to the guys at PC World and they say to restart, and then press F8 I have heaps of times, but I can't access the drive recovery partition.

  I have a Satellite Pro A300 with Home Prem Vista

  Any help appreciated.

  Thank you

  Paul

  Hello Paul

  Well, are not good news but it shouldn't be a problem to solve this problem.

  You can go into advanced with F8 boot menu? If Yes, select Repair my computer and follow the instructions on the screen. All that s. So, you can use HARD drive recovery.

  If you can t go into the advanced boot menu you should use the Toshiba recovery disc. You burn it? You need to start only with her and Windows will be reinstalled.
  If you don t have the recovery disc, you can order one at Toshiba directly:
  https://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

  Welcome them

• How can I repair hard drive partitions?

  I have an external hard drive for backups formatted with Windows XP that I use now with my laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium. Recently, my son plugged into his Apple PC and tried to create a partition to back up its files. Apparently this corrupted the table to partition. I can get is all data on the hard drive.

  I looked at the drive by using:

  1 Windows 7 disk management

  2. Acronis Disk Director 11

  3. EASEUS Partition Recovery (last version)

  4 partition Wizard 5.2

  Neither of them could do anything except delete or format partitions.

  The partitions on my external hard drive are still there, but Acronis Disk Director shows the following information:

  Disc 1 (TPG)

  CAPACITY OF FREE SPACE OF THE VOLUME TYPE FILE SYSTEM STATE

  EFI 200 MB FAT32 200 MB GPT basic health

  Local 232.9 GB GB 226,7 basic GPT volume not supported in health

  Unallocated 128 MB

  Local volume 232 GB GB 218,6 GPT of base not supported in health

  Local 619,9 MB GB 130.1 basic GPT volume not supported in health

  Is anyway to repair the partition table and possibly access data?

  Thank you!

  I can't run Chkdsk because the drive is not visible in Windows or DOS except in disk management and Device Manager.

  I decided to give up and just clean the disk and re - format.  Thanks for your efforts to help.

• How to clear the hard drive on c6180

  I'm getting rid of my c6180, and I am concerned about information that may be stored on the hard drive... How can I erase hard disk so none of my info can be retrieved later by someone? ....

  There is no hard drive on the Photosmart C6180, but there is information stored in non-volatile memory that can be deleted as described here.  The reset will erase personal data in the printer.

• iMac 10.4 - utility disk erasing option is grayed out. How can I erase my hard drive?

  Hello

  I have an iMac 10.4 - utility option in the disk, the delete option is greyed out. How can I erase my hard drive?

  Hi GJuss,

  What is your boot volume? If so, you will not be able to.

  It is an external hard drive?

  Kind regards

  BleverCastard

• How can I use my drive hard thunderbolt from 8 TB to backup all my wireless devices?

  How can I configure my drive hard thunderbolt from 8 TB to back up all my devices using a Wi - Fi connection?

  What you might hope better would be to use a Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter to connect to the router, but even if it works, it would be like a fire (Thunderbolt) connection to a water hose (Ethernet) is launching... and expect to get more water on the hose... more, the best that can be done without wire will be about half the speed of the Ethernet network.

  Sorry, this is no sense... a Thunderbolt drive is designed to connect directly to a Thunderbolt port on a computer, or in a Garland with other devices Thunderbolt.

  In other words, as soon as you break the chain of connection Thunderbolt, the speed drops to Ethernet or even low speed wireless.

• How can I boot from the Windows 7 Installation CD so that I can reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows 7?

  How can I boot from the Windows 7 Installation CD so that I can reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows 7?  I have already reinstalled Windows 7 from the CD, but that has not solved my problems.  When I put the factory CD in my CD player, it won't always boot from the CD.  When I put my Windows 7 Ultimate CD in the CD drive, it doesn't always start from the CD.         I realize that the reformatting is not always necessary, but I caught a few viruses (despite anti-virus running) and I need to start with a clean hard drive.

  On Friday, January 9, 2015 14:30:32 + 0000, BlueKodak wrote:

  How can I boot from the Windows 7 Installation CD so that I can reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows 7?  I have already reinstalled Windows 7 from the CD, but that has not solved my problems.  When I put the factory CD in my CD player, it won't always boot from the CD.  When I put my Windows 7 Ultimate CD in the CD drive, it doesn't always start from the CD.

  You must go into the BIOS and change the boot on CD order
  first push.

  How to get into your BIOS? It is not dependent on Windows, but on what he
  motherboard/BIOS card that you have. In fact, you need access to the
  BIOS before Windows begins to start. A common method is to press
  the key delete when you turn on first, but this is not necessarily true
  for your computer. Watch the display carefully when you start first;
  There is often a message here to tell you what to do. If this is not the case, check
  your system documentation or check with your provider.

• When I replaced a hard drive, I wanted the same drive letter, but he wants me to take another. How can I assign the drive letter, I replaced?

  When I replaced a hard drive, I wanted the same drive letter, but he wants me to take another. How can I assign the drive letter, that I replaced. The letter is now used by another device?

  Open disk management, find the drive using the drive letter you want to use, change the drive letter of this to 'Z', find the new drive, change the drive letter that you want, and then change the drive letter of the drive you have labeled it 'Z' to a drive letter of your taste.

  Jim

• Satellite A200 - how to replace the HARD drive?

  Hey, I recently some strange problems with my laptop. I installed a new copy of Windows Vista and also tried with Windows 7 a few times. But eveytime I get problems. The installation of the operating system right. But after I installed some Windows updates my computer becomes very slow and at some point, I am unable to install any application, because it crashes just when installing... This happends with all the big software products such as Visual Studio, 3d Max, After Effects... etc.

  So I think that my HARD drive has a large number of bad sectors. I also tried to erase everything on my drive with KillDisk, but it hangs at 16%. Once again something that seems to be my HARD drive.

  But before you buy a new, I'd like to hear your opinions on my problem and I would also like to know how I have to replace my HDD on a Toshiba Satellite a200. I don't know where it is placed and what parts I need to unscrew.

  Thanks for any help.

  Hello!

  The HARD drive is placed on the underside of the laptop.

  The HARD drive on the underside Bay is fixed by two screws. Remove the screws and the HARD drive. Then you can swap the HARD drive.
  But unplug the AC adapter and remove the battery before doing this.

  The new HARD disk must have the SATA interface.

  Good bye