How do you format a hard drive with an operating system on it?

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• How to format my hard drive as my operating system running IM?

  How to format my hard drive as my operating system running IM? I tried many ways must my computer tells me I have to stop all programs that I have running. play help as soon as possible!

  Some PC contains a hidden hard disk restore partition. If yours is one of them, this is how you return your PC to its original state.

  What is the brand and model of your PC?

  Yet, this is a pretty drastic step. There is more easy and faster to improve performance. If you do not want to give it a shot, let us know. And also tell us the specifications of your PC, type of XP, SP, etc.

  Also, you might find follows her beneficial:

  Here are the usual causes of slow:

  1. malware (malware). You need to rule out first! This page has excellent information:

  http://Web.archive.org/Web/20080610163247/http :// www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

  2. some programs aimed at combating malware (for example, Norton and McAfee). Ironically, they can slow things down because they use simply much too many resources. Sometimes they cause conflicts with other programs. And their default mode is to scan your entire hard drive whenever you start. Fortunately, there are other programs of anti-malware software available that use much less resources (p. ex., NOD32, Avast and Avira).

  3. too much of certain types of programs still running in background - with or without your consent. (Then again, a lot of programs running in the background of the consequences trivial.)

  To determine each program and process, you are running, use the task (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) Manager and click the processes tab. You should be able to sort by CPU usage or memory usage for a good ideas that are resource/memory hogs. You must write the names of all the processes for future detective work (or take a snapshot and print it).

  Use these sites to determine what these programs are, and learn how configure them to not always run when starting:

  http://www.PACS-portal.co.UK/startup_content.php#THE_PROGRAMS
  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/
  http://www.AnswersThatWork.com/Tasklist_pages/Tasklist.htm

  Sometimes, it is recommended to use msconfig to configure programs to run at startup. A better, more thorough program is Autoruns:

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

  But before that, you must use the settings preference of the program in question. Otherwise, for some programs, they will return to the list of startup anyway!

  If you do not want to use msconfig, it can be accessed in this way:

  Start | Run | Type "msconfig" (without the quotes). Enter (or OK)

  4. not enough RAM, causing the PC too rely on the pagefile. A quick way to determine if what is happening is to open (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) Task Manager, and then click the performance tab. Then the three values under Commit Charge (k) Note: in the lower left corner: Total, limit and peak.

  The Total number represents the amount of memory you are using right now. The vertex figure represents the maximum amount of memory you made since the last boot. If these figures are lower than the value of the amount of physical memory (K), then you probably have lots of RAM. In case you want to study it more, you can run the Page queue Monitor for Windows XP:

  http://www.dougknox.com/XP/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm

  5. you can also verify that the access mode of your hard drive has not changed from DMA to PIO:

  http://www.technize.com/2007/08/02/is-your-hard-disk-CDDVD-drives-too-slow-while-copying/

  and

  http://winhlp.com/node/10

• How to format a hard drive with a production system of crude fat ranking system 32

  Try to format a hard drive in fat32.  Windows says it cannot format drive is gross, ranking system.

  If the drive is larger than 32 GB, Windows XP does not let you format using FAT32 (there is a debate on the question of whether you can use the formatting command line tool, but given that it will take much time to format a large drive, you probably don't want to try it; Microsoft actually meant that you can't format a large FAT32 drive during the installation of Windows).

  Keep in mind that a partition formatted in FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4 GB.

  Microsoft recommends using a Win 98 boot disk (if your machine actually has a floppy drive).  Or you can download fat32format and use it.

• How do I know which hard drive contains the operating system in the Hp Pavilion dv7-4069wm? The upgrade.

  I think the upgrade of one of my hard drives (ea 320) in my HP Pavilion laptop dv7-4069wm for more storage.  I like to keep the drive that contains the operating system to avoid the hassle to make a copy, but I'm not sure which one that is. I have not replaced a hard drive before, and still less a double disc. Recently, I added more RAM and noticed that both hard drives looked the same. Can someone tell me how to know the difference?

  Hello

  Drive main HARD with the operating system is shown in the diagram at Page 49 of your maintenance & Service Guide.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• have 2 hard drives with different operating systems on them

  I'm upgrading. I took a hard drive from another pc. It has windows vista on it. Am using another hard drive with XP on it as a slave. But it does not recognize 2nd hard drive other than a shortcut that my friend created. I think it has to do with group policies in Vista? Or the 2 operating systems will not play nice with them? I can't reformat the drive until I get back to the top on them.

  Finally, I plan to each drive to reformat, but want to back up each drive, so I can't reformat now

  Do you not normally take a hard drive with an installed operating system, on a single computer and put it in another for a start of it.

  You can ask yourself all sorts of problems.

  Motherboard drivers are involved for each computer, they are installed.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  And there are rules of licensing:

  If your computer is pre-installed with Vista or if it was an OEM drive, that you bought, it is classified as an OEM license and is not transferable.

  The license of Vista OEM is related to the original computer it is installed on and dies with the computer.
  You cannot transfer it to another computer/laptop

  If a license of Vista at retail, you can transfer it to another computer/laptop.
  But it can only be installed on one computer at a time.

  .

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  There are a set of processes for dual-boot Vista and XP, if that's what you try to do.

  You will need to follow the link below:

  http://www.syschat.com/dual-boot-Vista-XP-Vista-already-1946.html

  If you mean something different from your message, try the Forum relating to data recovery Vista repair:

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

  Restore the previous settings, repair installations, recover data in.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Install Windows 7 on the new hard drive with USB operating system recovery?

  I have an Alienware 2015 15 which does not come with a CD player. I install a new hard drive (SSD 2280 m2), so the question is how to install WIndows 7.

  While Microsoft offers an OS IOS for WIndows 8 download that you can put on a USB (with dell, I think that it automatically pulls the product key of BONE off the coast of the motherboard?) this IOS download is not available for Windows 7.

  So the question is the recovery USB OS offered by dell will allow me to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on a new hard drive in the laptop even USB from recovery of the BONES came with. My last resort is to buy a new copy of windows 7 and a USB external CD/DVD drive.

  TLDR: OS Recovery USB offered by dell will install Windows 7 on a new hard drive.

  The factory restore USB will work on another drive. I did this procedure with the media created from the latest version of Dell backup and restore on my Inspiron 13 7347 and demonstrated the creation of media and installation on a new SSD:

  http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/Dell-backup-and-recovery/

  Since you are using use Alienware Alienware Respawn. Alienware respawn is very similar to Dell backup and restore.

• Can we move a user profile to a hard drive with an operating system that is non-working on a hard drive with a working os?

  My profile the user has administrative rights and was created with Win XP pro.   I installed the old hard drive in a working win xp pro system. Can I transfer the old user profile in the system of work (drive E to the C drive) and connect with it?

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• Image vs cloning on the new HARD drive with an operating system already installed.

  First of all, I'm NOT tech savvy.  I apologize in advance.

  After several warnings error that my hard drive was in danger of failing, I was finally able to install a new HARD drive.  Windows has had some difficulty in installing Windows 7 to new HARD drive, but I finally found a solution.  So here's my current situation.

  I have the main drive (old) (C:\) which has Windows 7 and all my data on it (it is a Seagate 1 TB HARD drive that came installed on my Dell Studio XPS 8100).  I installed a new WD Black 1 TB HARD drive and was finally able to get Windows to download on it (it reads now like two distinct? score?) E:\ and F:\) see photo.

  

  Now, my question is this...

  I want to save all my data from my old HDD and put it on my new HARD drive.  One that I have this, I would like to remove the old Windows 7 HDD and use it as "extra" space

  Make a clone of the old HARD drive to the new since I have already installed the new Windows 7 HARD disk?

  Please advise and please keep in mind that I might say things correctly and I can't understand though if the answers are on my level.  I appreciate any help!

  OK, so here is what I would do to try to avoid problems of compatibility or driver, as far as I can:
  -Turn off your system completely and unplug from the power outlet wall
  -Disconnect the old drive in your system (SATA and power cables)
  -Place the new WD Black on the main port SATA (should be labeled SATA0)
  -Turn on your system and put your OS drive you can do a completely new installation of the operating system.
  S ' ensure that you have updated all the drivers and the operating system after the installation
  -Turn off your system and plug your old drive
  -Turn on the system in the BIOS and make sure the WD Black has the priority starting on the old HDD
  -Boot into the operating system and copy all data from the start of your old disk partition that you want to keep for the WD Black
  -Go to disk management and delete the old boot partitions and the old drive system
  -The old HDD should be your secondary drive now and you can freely move files between the two disks
  N ' have in mind that due to the new copy of the OS, you must reinstall all the games and programs in order to operate because of the new system registry

  This should put you on the safe side and prevent any compatibility issue or driver which is possible during a clone or restore procedure. :)

  Captain_WD.

• Can I transfer to the new computer hard drive with the operating system

  I am building a new computer and want the best way to transfer my data.  I can transfer the data to a new SATA drive and then install the new drive in the new computer without having to do anything else.   Or I can install XP on the new computer first then do the transfer queue using the old IDE drive in a portable USB enclosure?  or?

  TKS

  John

  Sort that works is great.

  If you use the USB case, make sure that it can provide enough power to the drive.  Usually this isn't a problem if the old drive was a laptop computer but can be a problem if it was a desktop drive.

  Assuming that your old computer still works, the easiest is to put all the files you want to transfer to a folder, and then share this folder on the network.  Connect both computers to your home network, then simply attach to the shared folder on the network from the other computer and drag and drop your files to your new computer.

  HTH,
  JW

• How to FORMAT my hard drive with a RECOVERY PARTITION and my system restore from. BKF files

  History made as short as possible.

  I inherited a gateway with XP Media Center 2004. I transferred all my old files to the new computer, and it worked fine. I did a full backup of the system (.) BKF). Later, I installed a disc for my Vivitar camera I used before with my old system and my computer crashed.

  I tried everything I know to do a restore. F8, F10 and F11 during start-up and the best I could come up with was the safe MODE, but it would fail to any ENTRY.

  I really feel like the hard disk must be formatted and start over. I can not access the recovery partition and no XP CD was provided.

  My question is: How can I reformat the hard drive with a petition of recovery and reinstall my operating system of BKF files?

  If you have a recovery partition, I suggest you post in the forums of the bridge
  assistance.
   
  Another option is the following:
  http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/05/recovery-console-for-those-without-an-XP-disk/
   
  "luckyone_27105" wrote in message
  News: 720fbbc2-6fb9-4fd7-9411-bdd1ec89b144...
  > A long history made as short as possible.
  >
  > I inherited a gateway with XP Media Center 2004. I transferred all my old
  > files to the new computer and it worked fine. I did a full backup of the system
  > (. BKF). Later, I installed a disc for my Vivitar camera I used
  > before with my old system and my computer crashed.
  >
  > I have tried everything I know to do a restore. F8, F10, and F11
  > during startup and the best I could come up with safe MODE, but it would be
  > not allow any INPUT.
  >
  > I really feel like the hard disk must be formatted and start over. I have
  > unable to access the recovery partition and no XP CD was provided.
  >
  > My question is: How can I reformat the hard drive with a petition of recovery
  > and reinstall my operating system of BKF files?
  >
   
   

• How do you format a DVD drive in XP

  How do you format a DVD drive in XP

  Hi GeoffHulme,

  You can follow these steps and check if that helps:

  a. Insert the DVD on your computer.
  b. double click on my computer.
  c. right click on your CD/DVD drive, and then click Format.
  d. in the file system list, click format UDF.
  e. click Start.
  f. click OK to start the formatting.
  g. click OK again after the formatting is completed.

  Hope the helps of information.

• How to format external hard drive with El Capitan

  Earlier, I had disk utility application and he showed me what he can do.  After el Capitan, today, I checked the same application, but this time I couldn't find how to do a partition or format my external drive.

  How can I do?

  In disk utility, select the icon at the top of your player and click the clear button.  This will give you this:

  

  Move again, click the icon at the top of your player and select the Partition:

  

  In the next window, place the circular slider until you get the size of the partition that you want and click on apply:

  

  

• Upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free. Format a hard drive with Windows 10. Same upgrade again.

  I have laptop which has been also upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. But it works very well. But on PC I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 free without entering a product key. So at the beginning I had same problem as in this case:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_8-update/blackgrey-screen-after-update-and-restart/a3b479de-b565-48D9-8640-73ba8dcdc5d8
  Which I was not able to solve. A kind of workaround was to create another user. But with that I lost all settings. So I restored Windows 10 in original condition and everything was fine. Until this happens:
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-security/cant-access-change-user-account-control-settings/da8c63a9-F995-4e8b-88d8-34c4d813084e

  I tried all the answers, that is to create another user, or use points of restoration, or boot. There is nothing to solve this problem. Then at first, I tried to apply USB recovery but after all treatment, there was an error and the only option to restart. Second, I tried to restore the system, which also failed. I'm done with formatting hard drive and use the Windows 7 DVD. I skipped looking for updates and you don't have invitation to upgrade in the taskbar. That said, when I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 with GetWindows10 - Web_Default_Attr.exe app after about 1-2 hout of certain operations it asks me to enter the product key and there is no option to skip this step.

  Is it possible to upgrade once more at all? Do I need to install all updates for Windows 7 first? Or GetWindows10 - Web_Default_Attr.exe app is not a good way for me to upgrade?

  If you have your Windows 7 product key, you can use it to install a new copy of Windows 10:

  How to install and activate Windows 10 using your Windows 7 or Windows 8 product key

• Format my hard drive with XP

  I have an older Dell with Windows XP and the disks of reinstalling original windows with purchase.  Caused by a virus, about 2 years ago I took my computer to a repair shop and had to reinstall windws XP.  I'm now trying to reinstall XP myself, but apparently the shop used a newer version reinstall drive, because when I load my CD, it says that it won't work because it is an older version.

  Is it possible that I can format the hard ddrive and then re-load using my original XP CD?

  You are trying to reinstall XP from within a session of XP, which cannot be done.  Insert the original CD in the drive and restart the computer.  At some point during the startup of th, a message «Press any key to boot from CD...» "should be displayed on the monitor. Press a button and the installation process should begin

• Try to format my hard drive with windows xp installed.

  I went to cmd and on c:\ > I typed in format c: it came with the usual caveat. Continue the at I clicked on Y for Yes it came with the format cannot run because the format is used by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first. All handles to this volume would then be invalid.
  You want to force a disassembly on this Volume? y (y/n)
  Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.
  How to unlock the drive or do I have to purchase software that erases my own hd.

  On mon, 19 Sep 2010 19:27:56 + 0000, CurtisJG wrote:

  I went to cmd and on c:\ > I typed in format c: it came with the usual caveat. Continue the at I clicked on Y for Yes it came with the format cannot run because the format is used by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first. All handles to this volume would then be invalid.
  You want to force a disassembly on this Volume? y (y/n)
  Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use.
  How to unlock the drive or do I have to purchase software that erases my own hd.

  You cannot format the drive Windows is installed on to in
  Windows. It's like sawing the branch of a tree, you are sitting
  on.

  What is your purpose here? You want to reinstall Windows properly?

  If so, just boot from the Windows CD (any version) and follow the
  guests for a clean install; the installation will begin by
  formatting the drive.

  Ken Blake (MS-MVP)