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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.

• 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 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.

• 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

• 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

• Satellite A30 - how to remove the hard drive

  Hi, new here...

  Can someone tell me how to remove the hard drive in my Tosh A30...

  Thank you
  captainp

  Hi Tim,.

  The hard drive on your SA30 is in the optical drive, but slide the optical drive out of its housing (undo the F5 marked screws on the bottom of the laptop).

  The hard drive will be visible fixed with four Phillips head screws that need to be removed (two on each side of the hard drive. With the removed screws, gently slide the hard drive toward the front of the laptop to disconnect its connector and carefully pull it out of its Bay.

  HTH

• Pavilion ze5730us laptop: how to remove the hard drive of the computer laptop Pavilion ze5730us

  Can anyone tell please how to remove the hard drive of the computer laptop Pavilion ze5730us?  I know its under the keyboard somehow, but I don't know how or where that open.  I could not find this model on YouTube either.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  D.

  Hello:

  The only manual that I could find is one that covers the ze5600.

  See if it will work for your model too.

  http://h10032.www1.HP.com/CTG/manual/c00246219.PDF

• Any suggestions to clean the hard drive of personal data, so that I can give my laptop without security concerns?

  Any suggestions to clean the hard drive of personal data, so that I can give my laptop without security concerns?

  Richard's suggestion is about as extreme as you can get. Of course, it works very well and the data is not recoverable, but unless you have State secrets then it might be a little overkill. It is the only way to be sure that the data is destroyed, but 100%!

  There are programs such as (Darin of Boot and Nuke) DBAN or KillDisk which can erase the disc at the point where it would take massive resources (money, time and material) to retrieve all the data. Then, a new installation or Windows recovery would be needed. But you don't have to replace the hard drive. It is effective even against the pirates experienced more than 99.9%.

• How to access the hard drive USB on E3000? Am I missing something?

  I have my router configuration fine to the internet, as well as the media server.  I can't understand how to access the hard drive of my laptop, however.  The manual says to put 192.168.1.1 in the field the address of windows Explorer, but it gives me just the 'Setup' page for the router.

  Am I missing something simple?  I use Windows XP.

  Click on start - go to start > Run/start search and type "\\192.168.1.1" (without the quotes) and press on enter and it should ask the user name and password, the user name and password, use "admin" all lower case, and then click Ok... Now you should be able to see your USB... You must make a right click on it and select "Map network drive" and check the Enable box and below click Finish... It will map the USB on your computer... Once done, you will be able to send and receive data from your computer to the USB...

• How to remove the hard drive of a laptop the dv4 1444dx

  Hello

  Can someone tell me how to remove the hard drive of a 1444dx dv4 notebook? My laptop does not pass enven boot in safe mode. I tried to let repair system automatic and also tried recovery to a date when the latter worked correctly, but neither translates into success.

  I want to remove the hard drive and save my data before trying to reinstall the original image from the D: drive.

  Thanks for any help you can provide.

  Kind regards.

  Hello

  The procedure to replace the hard drive is detailed from Page 59 of your & Maintenance Guide.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Can I remove photos from photos on the hard drive of my macbook, but keep them in iCloud?

  I just used icloud to "backup" 80 GB of photos that are on the hard drive of my macbook. I'm now able to remove them from my macbook without losing them on iCloud?

  All advice appreciated!

  Welcome to the Apple community.

  With iCloud library enabled, you cannot delete a photo on a device (or iCloud.com) without deleting each device which uses iCloud photo library (iCloud.com). In order to save space on your mobile devices (and indeed your Mac if you want to) turn on the optimization of the pictures on these devices (settings > photos & camera > optimize storage on your mobile device and Photo preferences > optimize storage on your Mac)

  Dynamic optimization, it reduces the resolution of your photos, if necessary, so that you don't notice it occurring initially. However, when necessary, it is very effective, and users have reported libraries being optimized for much less than 10% of their original size in some cases. My own library is about 9% of its original on my phone size.

• To replace the hard drive on my MacBook Pro, I disable Photoshop 6, and I believe that I have disabled my Photoshop 5.5 (adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard). I could through the Adobe Web site to download and install Photoshop 6; but the Adobe Cre

  To replace the hard drive on my MacBook Pro, I disable Photoshop 6, and I believe that I have disabled my Photoshop 5.5 (Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard). Supposedly if you turn into a sequel they will disable all. I could, through the Adobe Web site to download and install Photoshop 6; but the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard is not put at my disposal for download. Any suggestions?

  Joseph, here is the link to Download CS5.5 products

  Let us know if you need help with it.

  Atul_Saini

• How to format the hard drive and do a clean install of XP?

  I have a legal windows XP profesional version to install and I need advice on how to format the hard disk, the version on it now was apparently a pirate vers.its years since I, did such things and my mind is old so I really need all the steps, a - z,.

  * How can original title - I wipe my hard drive and install win XP Prof? *

  Hi syynbbad,

  In addition to the post of cbarnhorst, please see the following article on how to do a clean install of XP:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/978307

  I hope this helps!

  Debra
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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