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• How can I erase my hard drive on a Dimension 3000? Please help soon.

  I need to COMPLETELY wipe my hard drive.  I use the "Dell reinstallation Cd Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2". How can I use the disk to erase my hard drive. And after that, I have to reinstall all drivers and others. As montors, CHIPsets, Etc and.

  When I try. It asks the next question.

  Installation of Microsoft XP Edition family

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  The following list shows leaving them existing and space unpartioned on this computer.

  Use the ARROW UP and DOWN keys to select an item in the list.

  • Partion1 [FAT] 47 MB {39 MB free}
  • C: Partion2 [NTFS] MB 72645 {51513 free MB}
  • Unpartioned 8 MB of space
  • F: Partion3 [FAT32] 3585 MB {1356 MB of free space}
  • Unpartioned 8 MB of space

  ENTER = install D = Delete Partion F3 = exit

  Remove a? If so, which. I am a noob on this Yes, you can be VERY detailed.

  Here's the info of computers:

  Dell Dimension 3000

  Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.40 GHz

  2.39 GHz, 512 MB Ram

  Maxtor 6Y080L0 80 GB HDD

  Windows XP Home Edition

  NOTE: remember that I want to just reinstall windows in order to erase my HARD drive. using the reinstall drive.

  
  

• reformat and erase/wipe hard drive

  Hi friends,

  I'm about to make a donation or to throw my old Dell desktop that is running Windows XP, sp3 (what that is the possibility arises first ).  I'm sorry that I don't remember the name of the model (for the moment).  But anyway, what I understand, I need to delete all the data, to protect my private life of anyone who might want to use it after I'm done with it.

  The research I've done, looks like I need to uninstall and remove programs, documents, pictures, music, etc., as much as possible and record everything I want to keep a cd drive or usb.  Then to start the delete process, first I have to reformat the hard drive.  After that, I need to "sweep" it.  I guess I wouldn't be surprised of this paradoxical terminology, but it IS annoying.  I'm talking about it wiping of the process which does not remove anything, but rather replaces the disk, at least a few times, to have my most difficult to recover data .

  Could someone me directly to the appropriate instructions for reformatting the hard drive please?  Or if there is an article or something about this whole process, which you could link me to, that would be great.

  Also, I looked for a program to make wiping.  There are those who are free and more expensive.  I prefer free, unless they are just not worth it.  All of you have recommendations for wiping program?

  Actually, come to think of it, I could still be able to use the computer.  Once I refortmat hard drive, isn't that kind of start over with a clean slate as?  If I couldn't reinstall WinXP right back?   Or I wonder if I could install Win7?  My most recent computer running Win7, so I should have the cd somewhere.  Although this old computer has only 1.24 GB of ram.  So maybe not Win7, but even with XP, I could at least still use the printer that is connected to it.  (The printer and its software are probably too old to run on my newer computer.)  As long as I do not plan to use the internet, there is no security issues with this os to an old/old help... right?

  Thanks for your help

  Hi Brynn4,

  Just to add to the comments of rdunnill, I'm guessing that you can't pay for a new operating system for a computer that is worth less that the license will cost you. My suggestion would be to wipe the drive and perform a new installation of XP if you have the XP Dell installation disk. There are many free utilities that can erase the hard drive safely. You DO NOT need to uninstall anything before formatting the disk.

  Otherwise, I would restore the original hard disk image if you do not have a Dell XP disc.

  And Yes, I understand that Microsoft ends in favor of XP, but there are many people who use computers for non-critical tasks that would be happy to put more than a few miles on your old desktop computer.

• I had to erase my hard drive, lost everything, but I re-installed windows 7 and it would not accept my key.

  I had to erase my hard drive, lost everything, but I re-installed windows 7 and it would not accept my key, do I have to buy a new key?

  Original title: Activation of Windows 7?

  Skip entering your product key Windows 7 and complete the installation.

  When you reach the desktop, click Start, right-click on computer

  Click on properties

  Scroll down to the Windows Activation

  Click the link x days before activation.

  Click on the link that says: "show me other ways to activate.

  Enter the product key

  Click next

  Select the Activation of the phone

  Click Next when you enter your key page

  Select your country

  Click Next, call the number listed

  Be sure to explain your situation to the Appeals Officer.

  Provide the installation generated when ID requested by the call agent

  They give a confirmation ID in return, enter it

  Click next to complete the activation.

  However, the requirements for the media upgrade is that you have an operating system already eligible such as Windows XP or Vista installed to use it. Since the Windows 7 end user license agreement.

  15 UPDATES. To use upgrade software, you must first be licensed for the software that is eligible for the upgrade. After the upgrade, this agreement takes the place of the agreement for the software that you upgraded. After upgrade, you can no longer use the software that you upgraded.

  So, if you are always denied, you will just have to reinstall Windows XP or Vista and let it do the verification of eligibility.

  or

  How to activate Windows 7 manually (activate by phone)
   
  1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
   
  (2) press the ENTER"" key.
   
  (3) select your "country" in the list.
   
  (4) choose the option "activate phone".
   
  (5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.
   
  (6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.
   
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

• ThinkPad R60 cannot install Windows XP After erasing the HARD drive using the lenovo diagnostic utility

  WinXP pro Setup cannot find that any installed HARD disk so cannot install windows. Unfortunately after many attempts to use rescue and recovery to restore the factory settings and for some reason constantly default... After leaving another utility popped up giving me the opportunity to erase the HARD drive and so I did... After fact as well and all I had was a blank screen, no windows more or no matter what utility to reinstall windows, then I used my winxp pro installation CD, but the program installation would continue not after a certain point by saying that the installation did not find any HARD disk installed. followed by "ensure that any disk HARD r turned on and correctly connected, and that no matter what material associated drive configured correctly, this may involve running a manufacturer provided diagnostic or Setup program. Clearly it took me by surprise. What was supposed to be a cut to white erase and reinstall now me baffled and angry. Formats the HDD of the solution? If so why didn't not the usefulness of lenovo do... If not, what is the problem? Someone help pls

  Welcome to the forum!

  Go into the BIOS (F1 at startup), set the "compatible" SATA mode (NO AHCI), then press F10 to save and exit, and you should be all set.

  Good luck.

• How do I completely erase the hard drive and reinstall everything for Windows 7?

  I want to completely erase a hard drive on a laptop, that I intend to use when traveling.

  Then I install windows 7 (which I bought) and my other programs

  Can I get step by step please

  Thank you

  Wanda Gill

  Some read to you... Installation of Windows 7

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/install-reinstall-uninstall

  But before you begin, make sure that your computer and the applications and the current programs are Windows 7 friendly...

  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4BD9-9e51-2497c146af15

  And check your programs here too...

  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/Windows-7/en-us/default.aspx?type=software

• I just replaced my hard drive. Can I replace everthing that I had saved by choosing "Restore" and it points to a saved file? Also all the Windows setting will find?

  I just replaced my hard drive. Can I replace everthing that I had saved by choosing "Restore" and it points to a saved file? Also all the Windows setting will find?

  Find all programs I had installed in C:?

  See if this tutorial will help.

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/675-system-image-recovery.html

• 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

• I just replaced the hard drive in my PC with my arrival of the damaged disc. I'm wondering now "activate Windows now".

  I just replaced the hard drive in my PC with my arrival of the damaged disc. I'm wondering now "activate Windows now". The code on the computer case was partly carried away and I do not have a record of it. The software has been activated once already. Suggestions, please.

  original title: hard drive swap.

  Use a magnifying glass and a strong light and see if you can retrieve the key.  It is not registered anywhere except on the label.  They are applied at the factory in batches, and there is no record that the key is affixed to a specific computer.  Recover what you can and then try to activate by phone.

  To activate Windows Vista by phone, follow these steps: click Start, and then click computer.  Click System Properties on the toolbar, and then click click here to activate Windows now in the Windows activation area.

  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password, or click on continue.  The Windows of Activation Wizard starts.  Click use the telephone system automated in the Windows Wizard of Activation.

• Just installed new hard drive 1 TB

  Just installed new hard drive 1 to and vista only reads only 127 GB. How can I get vista to recognize the full 1 TB

  http://www.vista4beginners.com/how-to-manage-your-disks-using-only-Windows-Vista-disk-management-tool

  Take a look in disk management.

  See you soon. Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Can't erase my hard drive recovery utility

  Hello everyone,

  Huge disappointment a few hours ago. My system would not start. Rebooted from OS X Recovery and scanned with utility disk to find out there was a mistake not repairable in the hard disk which told me that I should restore with time machine. Fortunately, I had my backed up system and that's what I was doing. After the process, I found that my data was back, I have not all apps! No safari, no itunes, no store apple to re - install applications, nothing... Maybe I should have stopped here and ask for help, but given that my data has been backed up, I thought it wouldn't hurt to try the other option in the OS X Recovery: reinstall OS X.

  So I tried to reinstall OS X. It took a few hours, and when the system was finally restarted to complete the installation, it prompted a message saying that OS X could not be installed (don't remember why).

  Now, when I try to start the computer, it automatically goes to the recovery, and practically I can't do anything... I can't use time machine because the hard drive to the mac does not present as an option to install the system. It won't let me delete the partition that the system created to install the OS X either (about 1.3 GB)... the options for 'clear' are grayed out.

  I tried to erase everything, but I'm not power, and it seems that there is not much I can do, given all the options appear to be available... What a physical error in the hard drive? It was working perfectly before this happened, and the laptop has not left the office in between.

  The system is a MacBook Pro from 2012 (originally with the Mountain Lion and now ran on Yosemite). The hard drive is a semiconductor.

  All the miraculous solutions are welcome!

  Thank you!

  Should be explained a little more disciplined, please.

  For example: the system created to install the OS X is (about 1.3 GB) is not clear: 1.3 GB is much too small to install OSX on it, then of course, you can't go. And you cannot use the RecoveryPartition for anything other than repair or reinstall the disk 'real '. The Partition Recovery itself not even 1 GB by a long shot...

  Since you have the TM backup, what you can do is:

  in the recovery partition, open DiskUtility, select the disk (not the partition, but the disk with the name 'complicated': DiskUtility should give the size (128GB, 56 GB or other): then in DiskUtility choose tab partition, then the partition: 1 partition, OS X Extended (journaled), (Advanced :) button) GUID Partition table.

  a when you're done, exit DiskUtility, select install OSX then TM, or install it directly from TM.

• Remove recovery partition satellite A200 - option "Erase the hard drive"?

  Hi people,

  I have a new Satlellite A200 and it won't start. Tried to run the recovery CD, but no joy.
  Could someone please tell me, if I chose

  'Clear the hard disk' then 'delete all data and partitions of the hard disk '.

  This would also remove the computer's internal recovery partition?

  I have the recovery CD, but as I said, they do not work and I was wondering if the compensation completely HARD drive then runs the disk recovery partition recovery help.

  Sorry if this is a fundamental question for you guys! I read through hundreds of threads, but could not find a definitive answer.

  Thanks in advance,
  E.

  > 'Clear the hard disk' then 'delete all data and partitions of the hard disk '.
  > This would also remove the computer's internal recovery partition?

  If you mean the partition hidden WinRE Vista then; YES

  But don t worry buddy. The Toshiba Vista recovery CD would be to format the whole HARD drive and erase all partitions, but it creates the hidden WinRE Vista back to the HARD disk partition.

  Greetings

• wipedrive tool allows to erase the hard drive

  Hello

  is there problem may occur if I erase all the % of files100 (the system vista, retrieving files... files) from the hard drive by wipedrive tool

  ?? and install windows 7

  I have a compaq presario V6000

  Just use the W7 installation disc to clean the disc. I always recommend what he got rid if Vista entirely. In this way there is no chance of getting errors because you're from "unallocated space" as if you put in a new hard drive of bran. Do the usual and create recovery disks in case you go back to Vista and of course to back up all your personal stuff to be reinstalled later.

  There is also a file on drive "C" called SwSetup which you must save it. Here are your drivers for Vista which will work in W7 and most importantly is the software that will not have the W7 installation disc, such as Microsoft Works, and I'm guessing that Cyberlink DVD suite. It is a very useful file.

  Once, you save all the things I said, then go for the clean installation. You will have less problems in the end.

  Here's a good tutorial on how to do a clean install of Cheryl. There a screen shot too.

  http://pcsupport.about.com/od/OperatingSystems/SS/Windows-7-clean-install-part-1.htm

  After installation, the first driver you want to load is your video card driver.

  I took a quick glance and there is no drivers for your model in W7, but like I said your Vista drivers should work fine.

  If this does not work you can always roll back to Vista with your recovery of the disc that I asked you to do.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00809678

  Just to answer your question, I wouldn't wipe drive. In fact, it is not clean the disk. Filled it with a bunch of useless information so no one can retrieve what was already on the disk before. Wipe drive is used if you ever decide to take your computer to the recycling depot.

  Who does not resemble a very stable place to put a new OS if you use Wipe drive.

• Erase a hard drive for Presario C714NR

  Hello! I have a C714NR that I haven't used in over a year. He stopped to connect to the internet one day and we couldn't understand why, so we finally gave up and bought a new laptop. Now, I seek to dispose of the computer and will have a terrible time erase all my data and restore the laptop to original settings. I don't have a Windows disk, so this isn't an option. I tried various methods such as using the F11 key and formatting the hard drive, but will not erase data. Because the computer does not connect to internet, I'm not able to download any type of disk wiping software. I am really stuck and would welcome assistance. Thank you!

  There are simpler solutions - but the recovery disks will restore laptop to factory settings.

  If you prefer just to wipe the hard drive > scroll down on the page and get > CD Bootable and > ImgBurn to burn the iso image to cd, a guide on the use of ImgBurn to write an ISO on a disc is > here. Once created, boot from it. Delete hard drive partitions, create and format. Then try to start recovery again.

• Windows xp will not install on DBAN erased the hard drive

  I had a virus on my hard drive that seems impossible to remove so I used DBAN to clean the disc. I have a disc under license of Windows XP Home Edition I used several times on this computer - an IBM ThinkPad T42. The player seems to be erased, but now when I try to install Win XP it goes through the formatting process I get a message that says that the formatting may not be completed and the reader can be corrupted or damaged. I tried several times, including the variant of the size of the partition, but I get the same message.

  2 questions - 1 - is - it a way to tackle this problem and 2 - if I buy a new hard drive, which will solve the problem?
  Thank you very much in advance for any help on this.

  You must initialize and partition the disk before formatting it.  See step 5 here--> http://computershopper.com/storage/howto/install-a-new-hard-drive-in-five-easy-steps