How to clean my hard drive

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• How to clean the hard drive of the computer

  I need to know how to erase my hard drive to get rid of a virus

  Hello Nguyen,

  Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community.

  I understand you want to wipe your hard drive to remove any infection by the virus from your computer.

  I would be grateful if you can provide us with the following information to help us better understand the issue.

  1. When you say 'I need to wipe my hard drive to get rid of the virus', do you mean you want to remove the virus from your computer or to completely erase your hard drive by erasing all the data on it?
  2. You want to clean install a new copy of Windows on your computer after removing all your data from the hard drive?

  If you do not want to delete all your data and do not want to clean your computer of viruses, you can scan your computer with the Microsoft Safety Scanner.

  Download and run Microsoft security scanner from the link below.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Note: The data files that are infected must be cleaned only by removing the file completely, which means that there is a risk of data loss.

  However, if you want to completely clean your computer, just remove the hard drive and pure, install a fresh copy of Windows on your hard drive, you can read the article below to do so.

  How to perform a new installation of Windows?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-8/clean-install

  Important note: Perform a clean installation will mean that all your data currently on your hard disk will be permanently lost. It is strongly recommended to have all your important data saved enough on any driver external before performing one of the suggestions above.

  Hope this information is useful. Do not hesitate to write back for any further assistance with Windows, we will be happy to help you.

• How to clean the hard drive on a Macbook.

  Hi there Apple community support.

  I am trying to clean my internal hard drive. Lately my Macbook has been telling me that my startup disk is almost full, so I was passing by and clean all my files on the hard drive. Also, when I looked at the "about this mac" window to see what was on the hard drive, he told me there were about 50 GB of apps and about 50 GB of movies, this seemed a bit strange that I have not a lot of other apps on my Macbook apart from those he came with, and I also deleted a large number of films I've had. So basically I don't see why my boot drive is full after I deleted a lot of things out of it.

  Thank you

  Morgan

  Make sure you emptied the Recycle Bin.  Did you also removed the unwanted items from your download folder?  You empty the trash in the Photo app?

  OS X El Capitan: increase the disk space

  Thinness of your hard drive

  

• How to clean my hard drive completely

  I want to regularly wipe my hard drive. How can I do this?

  Hello

  If you want to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space and help your computer run faster, use disk cleanup. It removes temporary files, empty the Recycle Bin, and removes a variety of file system and other items that you no longer need.

  Check out these links for help:
  
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup
  http://www.Microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

  Kind regards
  Afzal Taher
  Microsoft technical support engineer

• How to clean a hard drive? Used computer purchased

  I bought the computer. Needs cleaned completely, how do I?

  I hope that you have an installation CD.  If so, you can do a clean install of Windows, that will clean the disc.

• How to clean your hard drive with deleting them important things?

  IV my conputer for 4 years and its slow my boyfreind got a viris on it 3 years ago pitiii_angeee Trojan of * and now thow sometimes he doent want to turn of you have to push hold n both buttn wouldn't start see the a black scren with the lil bar .i have personal attached to the conputer dnt n wana wrinkles can be saved by works but always takes n many times don't wana to meet interntet I opened my hardriv saw all teas unusaul downlads how to roll them what I have I need of them?

  I'd be interested to see a report of Disk Defragmenter. Open Disk Defragmenter and click analysis. Select view report, and then click Save as and save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents folder. Open the file, and place the cursor anywhere in the file, select Edition, select all to select all the text and copy and paste into the body of your message. To do this, before you run Disk Defragmenter because it is more informative.

  Take a look in the system and Application logs in the errors and warnings event viewer and post here the copies. Do not post on more than 48 hours ago.

  You can access event viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, administrative tools, and Event Viewer. When searching for the meaning of the error, information about the event ID, Source and Description are important.

  A tip for posting copies of error reports! Run Event Viewer and double-click the error you want to copy. You will see a button resembling two pages. Click on the button and close Event Viewer. This places a copy of the report to your Clipboard. Paste it into the body of your message. Make sure that it is the first dough right out of the event viewer.

• Can I clean the hard drive before installing Windows Dell & as I've heard doesent clean properly. And how to clean the drive of DART?

  Can I clean hard drive before installing Dell Windows 7 / as I have heard it is not clean everything properly. So how to clean the hard drive?

  Or can I restore my office before you install Windows 7 in the first place when it's new?

  Kind regards

  Bert Pooler

  Yes, you can restore the State as it was when new...

  Your computer is equipped with a recovery instead of disk partition...

  This is how the recovery partition is accessible to most popular brands...

  For Dell, press CTRL + F11 directly after switching on the device

  You may need to try several times to get everything above to work. If after several attempts, you have no chance, or the machine indicates that there is no recovery partition, your only option is to contact the computer manufacturer and ask for the model recovery discs...

  After the reset, you should get all the updates from Windows Update EXCEPT for hardware devices. Then, you install a good antivirus. ONLY AFTER you have done this, if you replace the stuff of backups or install anything else.

• How can I clean my hard drive

  How can I clean my hard drive

  'Clean up '?  Do you mean delete?  If so, follow the instructions to clear it down here:

  What to do before you sell or give away your Mac - Apple Support

  'Clean up' means to get rid of some extra too much room?  See 'Release of disk space' here:

  OS x: what is 'other' space about this Mac? -Apple Support

• How to reformat the hard drive and do a "clean" install

  A recent virus attack, my computer has lost some files of the operating system.  With the help of the Lim has provided the recovery disk, which offered ' upgrade/repair' or a 'new installation '.  I chose ' install new ', actually I found many of my files are still there - that means that if a virus has escaped "Detection / removal" will always be there.

  Question: How to reformat the hard drive and do a 'fresh install' on a clean hard disk "? ". (I have a drive to Win XP with service pack 3 and a driver disk for the hardware installed on my computer of the regulations.)

  Thanks in advance

  Skip

  Since you have a Dell and a recovery CD and not a recovery Partition, check how many partitions you need by using disk management:

  http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_management.htm

  In case you have a partition with the operating system and a partition of the utility partition, I would only recommend formatting the partition from the OS. The Partition utility can be very useful.

• should I trust to clean your hard drive with all the files listed?

  I'm working through Windows Vista, step by step manual. I have a question on system and maintenance > administrative tools > free space disk (also called "Disk Cleanup").

  I want to clean my hard drive to free up space and improve performance by using this feature.

  I'm in the box to answer when you check in the files, that you need more, or not deleted on a conclusion of programs.

  in any case, I want to check a box for "temporary files" that amount to 8 gigabytes of memory.

  How do you know if it is safe to do so?

  could I be delete something important?

  I would just leave it be?

  I looked at windows vista help on this, and he said that you can safely delete temporary files that have not been modified in over a week.

  However, I see no list of dates in the box diologe/check page.

  any ideas anyone?

  Yes you can trust disk cleanup to safely remove your files, otherwise the option is not there.

  Confusion between Yes! but it removes only the files that have not been modified in over a week.

  Your computer will run faster and better especially with 8 GB free.

  You can manually delete these files if you wish and also see and choose only those that you want to remove.

  To do this: open the box run by pressing the Windows Logo key and the R key.

  Type: folder and OK or enter.

  You can sort by update for a better choice.

  To do this: click view on the menu, point on group BY and click Update, if the descendant is not chosen to go back and click on it.

  Alternatively, you can delete the temporary files that way:

  Open race box, type: temp, OK, you can delete everything, and if windows needs some we won't let you delete those he needs.

  Open, run, and type: recent, you can remove all if you like or keep those you want to if you use recent items on the start menu.

• Is to do a reset of the best way to clean my hard drive on my desktop windows 7

  I have a HP Windows 7 PC desk top and the hard drive is almost full with only 50 concerts remaining out of 584 concerts.  Everything is slow. I have a 1.5 T external HD that contains copies of all the files that are located on the C drive.

  (1) do a reset clean all files and software that I added?

  (2) I can then just transfer a few files that I need on a regular basis of the hd on the PC cleaned hd post?

  (3) is the best way to release my PC hd?

  (4) should I use recovery on the D drive, or should I use the disks I made when the computer is new?

  (5) it will be easy to upgrade to Windows 10 when it is available, or should I wait.

  (6) it is the fastest way to free my hd PC.

  Thanks for your help!

  Hello

  1 Yes; but a bit excessive as everything is erased including data; Back to the State nine and all updates must be resettled, as well as the 3rd party programs reinstalled, etc...

  2. Yes.

  3. There are other options; Read further down.

  4. the recovery discs are made from the recovery partition. but the recovery partition by pressing F11 repeatedly, is easier IMO.

  5. you have 12 months to upgrade free of charge once Windows 10 is out

  6. it is an option

  This is the procedure normally, we recommend you to free up space on your hard disk:

  This free program allows you to see what is taking place.

  http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/

  Here's how to understand Treesize Screenshots:

  http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/screenshots.shtml

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  Also check how much space system restore uses:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-much-disk-space-does-System-Restore-require

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  You can clean your hard drive using these two methods.

  "Delete files using Disk Cleanup"

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup#delete-files-using-disk-cleanup=Windows-7

  Using the free CCleaner program:

  http://www.Piriform.com/CCleaner

  In NO case use the registry cleaning Option in CCleaner

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  Download, install, update and scan your system with the free version of Malwarebytes AntiMalware:

  http://www.Malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

  And Norton Backup, if you are using Norton, can do strange things with filling of hard drive space.

  See you soon.

• How to clear the hard drive on my old iMac of 2008?

  I have a 2008 iMac I want to recycle. How to clear the hard drive?

  (What is PPC?)

  PPC stands for Power PC. Is the name used to refer to the old Macs that uses a Motorola processor instead of Intel chips used today. To clear your old Mac follow the advice in this document from Apple... What to do before you sell or give away your Mac - Apple Support

• How to recharge my hard drive with photos that are stored in iCloud.  After installing a new hard drive, there's no pictures found in the Photos, and I get this error "cannot find system Photo library named"Library.photoslibrary Photos".

  How to recharge my hard drive with photos that are stored in iCloud?  After installing a new hard drive, there's no pictures found in the Photos, and I get this error, "could not find the picture of system library named"Library.photoslibrary Photos".

  Soon as your App Photos or iPhoto lost track of your photo library, or there has not been migrated from your old drive. You can create an empty library and probably enable iCloud photo library for photos to upload to the cloud.

  Designate a library in pictures - Apple Support System

  

• Office jet pro 8500 a: elimination of printer, was this encrypted model? How to destroy the hard drive?

  This model encrypted?

  If this is not the case, how to destroy the hard drive? Where is the hard drive?

  Hi @Diane47,

  Thanks for joining the Forums of HP Support with your request to printer.

  I understand that you have a HP Officejet Pro 8500 has e-all-in-one printer you plan to elimination and you wonder if the hard disk is encrypted and how to destroy the hard drive. I would like to help with that.

  HP Officejet Pro 8500 has e-all-in-one printer don't have a hard drive. It contains a very small amout of memory, so it can keep in memory the printer and fax settings.

  You can clear the memory by restyoring the printer back to the default values.

  1. on the printer Panel, select Setup.

  2. from the Configuration menu, select Tools.

  3. on the Tools menu, select Restore Factory Defaults.

  HP offers to recycle their products for you. If you want to know more about it, please click here.

  Please let me know if that solves the problem, or if you need assistance.

  Indeed, if this help you to achieve a solution please click the 'accept as Solution' and the 'thumbs up' buttons down below in this message.

  Thank you!

• Satellite P10 - how to change the HARD drive?

  Hello

  I want to change my Satellite P10 for a bigger HARD drive.
  But I Don t know how to remove the DvD drive.

  On this laptop, I mean that the HARD drive is under the DvD drive.

  Please help me, if you know how to change the HARD drive.

  Welcome them

  Mister_X

  Hi Frank,.

  I'm not too sure about the P10, but on my A30 the hadr drive is under the DVD-ROM. It is secured in place by a single screw (accessible from under the laptop), and when it is deleted the DVD-ROM slides just to place revealing the hard drive.

  The hard drive is fixed with 4 screws (2 on each side)

  HTH