How can I safely reformat my hard drive to boot?

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• How can I access my old hard drive?

  How can I access my old hard drive? I go to disk management to initialize it and indicates an error "the server cannot find the file specified" and the other says there is a problem with inputs and outputs. Any suggestions or help?

  If the player has not been recognized in the old PC he failed.

  Try this disc HD decision-makers audit utility to test, see what that brings

• Question: How can I format an external hard drive

  I am trying to use an external hard drive with Time Machine.  He tells me that my external must be formatted in a format "journaled". I can't find any way to do it and the Mac is do not do it either. Can someone tell me how to proceed so that Time Machine works to put in shape?

  If Time Machine is not reformat the disk itself, choose Utilities in the Finder Go menu, open disk utility, select the drive in the sidebar and delete it.

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• T61p how can I back up my hard drive

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  My laptop out of no where would not turn on and exposes the 1 long beep and 2 short beeps with a white screen. He is 5 years old and started to act a little, so I had to replace anyway, but my question is how can I save my drive hard if I can't turn on your computer?

  I read somewhere there is some type of adapter under $ 10 that plugs directly into the hard drive and then I can plug in my desktop computer... anyone know if this is true and this which is called the cord I need? Or how I could do to get my files on my hard drive?

  Thank you.

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  Will need you a 2.5 "USB to SATA external enclosure. You can buy some fees at most computer stores, for example the selection to computers Canada. 2 USB works perfectly although you can spend a little more for the newer and more fast USB 3 which will be on your new computer.

  Once you have moved the disc again case simply plug into a USB port as if it were a USB flash drive. The operating system will recognize it, install the necessary drivers and allow you to access the help of Windows Explorer or similar.

  (Note that this assumes that you does not have a hard drive on the old disk T61p password.)

• How can I delate everything from hard drive except the OS

  I want to remove all deLL iNSPIRON RUNNING xp, ELLES THE OPERATING SYSTEM.

  Hello

  Thanks for posting in the Microsoft Community.

  I understand that you want to remove all of the hard drive except the OS.

  1 how many partitions you have?

  Please follow the methods.

  Method 1

  If you have only one partition, in this case you will need to manually remove data that you don't want.

  To uninstall the programs that you do not use, see the link.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307895

  You can also run Disk Cleanup tool, that helps you free up space on your hard drive

  See the link.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

   

  Method 2:

  If you use multiple partitions, you can go ahead and format drives, except the partition where you installed OS.

  NOTE: formatting the drive will remove all data and software installed on your computer.

  Check out the link:

  How to partition and format a drive hard using the Windows XP Setup program

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/313348

• Where and how can I reinstall the external hard drive to the new HD to the computer?

  Original title: HD crashed.

  I want to thank the person who answered my question about the HD crashed I saved all my data and window xp. My next question is, how and where can I reinstall external hard drive for the new HD to the computer? Should I send it to drive c or where? I'm not strong when it comes to computers. I know just enough to get me in trouble. Thank you.

  Hello!

  You will need to use a full copy of Windows XP.  Should be a sticker with the product key on the side of your desk or below if it is a laptop.

  Once you have this drive, you can reinstall Windows XP.  After you have installed all the software and drivers, you will be able to transfer all your data to the new HARD drive.

  If you don't have a copy of Windows XP, you can probably get a copy of the recovery from the manufacturing of computer media.  Just to provide the model and serial number and they should sent it.

• OK, how can I access my external hard drive after plug it into another computer? Original computer crashed.

  How do I get my new computer and I need access to my external hard drive? Original computer crashed and now I get a message saying ".

  Hi John and Missy Verhoog,

  1. What is the error message you are getting?

  2 have you checked the State of the drive in Device Manager?

  Check to see if the external drive is getting detected in Device Manager.

  a. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc and press to enter.

  b. find the name of the drive in the list of Bus USB controllers.

  c. right click on the device, and then select properties to view general information about the drivers.

  You can also read the following article and see if it helps:

  Install or remove a hard drive

  Hope this information is useful.

• How can I change primary H hard drive c?

  Recently, I had a disk failure hard and after installation to a new hard drive and reinstall all the software I found that the hard drive was affected as H c not. So far this has not been a problem because everything worked correctly. Now I want to install a new piece of software, but before I load it I get a download from the manufacturer's website. When I try this it will only download on the C drive and there is no way to change this.

  So, how can I change my c: drive? I tried under storage disk management in the computer management, but it will not allow a change.

  I am running Windows XP pro with all the updates.

  Let's try this via the disk part control

  (a) click Start and in the start search bar type cmd, right-click on the command prompt icon in the box programs and then click Run as administrator.

  (b) at the command prompt, type diskpart , and then on enter.

  (c) type list disk and press ENTER. A list of available hard disks.

  (d) type salt disc number and press ENTER . Number is the number of the hard disk where you want to reduce; the hard drive is now selected.

  (e) type det disk , and then press ENTER .

  (f) type salt volume number and press ENTER . Number is the number of the volume that we want to reduce

  (g) type shrink desired = 1000 (reduced the volume of 1000 Mb) and wait until the action is performed

  If this does not work, please repost your question in the xp forum. It's vista forum

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/xphardware/threads

  If it worked please let me know.

• How can I move a master hard drive to HP one case to another

  I couldn't find the manual in the help of HP for the owners, but there s bound to a section.

  I think that my mobo might have died and I was wondering if it was possible without having to format the hard drive...

  How to recover data if it is not possible

  Hello

  If your hard drive has OEM software on it then mvoing hard drive to another one with a different motherboard is more likey a violation of software license.

  You can remove the hard drive and put it in an external USB case to recover the data.

• How can I move photoshop to hard drive for the new macbook pro

  My macbook is dead but I have the hard drive connected via a USB docking station. How can I transfer my Photoshop CS5 (and the rest of the suite adobe) on my new macbook? I have the box and CD, but the new machine isn't a hard drive?

  Thank you

  Download here

  Download the CS5 products

• How can I attach an external hard drive for Macbook

  There's only a 3.0 port.  What should I stop?

  Are you having connection problems physically hard drive via a USB port, or do you not see the drive on the computer when connected?

  Is this a problem for the connected hard drive? Or if the hard disk is connected and you just can't access it?

• How can I delete file from HARD drive recovery?

  I burned a copy of the HDD recovery folder and would now like to delete the original folder on my hard drive that I need the space.
  Unfortunately I don't seem to have permission to make changes to the file.

  Any suggestions? (I'm a noob in vista)

  Thank you

  > burned a copy of the HDD recovery folder
  I think this will not help you if you would try to recover this file of HARD drive recovery once again!
  You need a recovery disk! This disc would only create a HARD disk partition once again!

  This means that you must create the recovery disk, first using the Toshiba recovery disc creator! This tool is preinstalled!

  So after you have created a successfully recovery disk, you can try to delete the folder from the HARD drive. But to be honest, I don t recommend this I want to say that this folder can be very useful in the future in case something goes wrong with your system

  However, I think that you cannot delete it because you don t have permission to admin
  You can try to disable UAC first
  Disable UAC is as easy as start > run > msconfig > tools > disable UAC > Ok.

• How can I back up my hard drive?

  I can't find the command for the backup of my hard drive.  I have an external hard drive ready to receive content from my pc.  I can't find the command.

  It seems that you are referring to the native backup program in Windows XP. Do not use! It is very problematic.

  Since you want to back up the entire hard drive, you will need to use a third-party software and an external hard drive as the destination for the files in the archive you create. There are a number of programs that create images of entire hard disk (or partitions, if you prefer). I've had positive experiences with Acronis True Image Home. Others have said positive things about Paragon.

  Here's a tutorial on the use of Acronis:

  http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/Acronis_image.htm

  In here is a free (but limited) imaging program called DriveImageXML:

  http://Lifehacker.com/326086/hot-image-your-PCs-hard-drive-with-DriveImage-XML

• How can I activate my second hard drive, now that the first is almost full?

  Original title: two hard disks?

  I have a HP Pavilion dv9000 and just learned today that I have TWO hard drives... it is almost full, how do I turn on the second, please?

  Try to run, type: diskmgmt.msc

  In msc, L.click on the hd 2, go to actions, all, search & select 'enable ',.

  close the msc.

• How can I defragment a complete hard drive (formerly)?

  I want to give my husband my old laptop, a HP non-tech.  It's the hard drive 60 gigabytes.  A few days ago, I sent most of my personal to the Recycle Bin and then deleted files (don't worry, all these files are in my new computer and saved on an external hard drive), the thought that would open up more space, because it was so full.  (The Defragmenter says he needs 15% free space on the disk.)  The Defragmenter says only 1 percent of the space was available, and after I left to do its thing, he went up to 2%.

  Is not remove all these files something interesting?

  I must also say that I deleted a bunch of files temporary and others, also, but this seems not to have helped.

  Is it possible that I can open a space on the hard drive without having to completely clean and re - install all software?  Thank you.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-performance/hard-drive-disc-space/a64f524c-8468-4f8c-b5ba-44c912d26a09

  There are several good tips to optimize your pc in the thread above.