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| 522233 | 2007-02-04 04:36:00 | It seems that reformatting the HDD is imminent. Can someone please point me to a reliable guide to reformat a hard disk drive? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 522234 | 2007-02-04 04:39:00 | It seems that reformatting the HDD is imminent. Can someone please point me to a reliable guide to reformat a hard disk drive? FAQF1 may be able to help you here: faqf1.net.nz Hope this helps :) & best of luck PS: you may also want to read any manuals that come with your Laptop in regard to reinstalling it. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 522235 | 2007-02-04 06:43:00 | Thanks for the reply, Stu :) By the way, my HDD has already been partitioned into three sections. When I reformat the HDD, would all three partitions be "collapsed and merged"? Is it all right if I remove the hidden partition as well (where Windows installation files are stored)? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 522236 | 2007-02-04 07:24:00 | Er.........its a laptop. Don't format it. Just backup your data and use its Recovery thing. That will put it back to its factory state. Otherwise you could be there for ages messing about installing drivers and stuff. You didn't say WHY you wanted to convert the thing.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 522237 | 2007-02-05 03:23:00 | Er.........its a laptop. Don't format it. Just backup your data and use its Recovery thing. That will put it back to its factory state. Otherwise you could be there for ages messing about installing drivers and stuff. You didn't say WHY you wanted to convert the thing.... Hi pctek. Well, I thought the laptop would be better off at having NTFS rather than FAT32 as the format of the HDD, since NTFS offers better security than its counterpart. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 522238 | 2007-02-05 05:10:00 | Windows has a convert function go via help of windows and do a search for ntfs .. you can click there .. and it will tell you, you can do it upon the next time you restart your computer ....... (automatically scheduled). For the formatting, if you are formatting that is per partition. If you have 3 partition, you need to do 3 formats. If you are doing the recovery CD, do that, doesn't matter if you do format or not .. cos the recovery CD will put all the partitions back into (1) partition back to factory setup. You can partition after if you like. You can convert it to NTFS after if you like (with Windows). |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 522239 | 2007-02-06 07:44:00 | Hi Nomad and pctek. I have followed the instruction by reformatting the C: (I didn't do anything to D: as there isn't a need). Now the format of the C: partition has been reverted to FAT32. Should I attempt to convert it to NTFS again? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 522240 | 2007-02-06 09:04:00 | Hi Nomad and pctek. I have followed the instruction by reformatting the C: (I didn't do anything to D: as there isn't a need). Now the format of the C: partition has been reverted to FAT32. Should I attempt to convert it to NTFS again? Cheers :) You can get windows at setup to format in NTFS and then install windows, using the Windows CD to boot and setup. If you got it installed already (Windows), you can hit the help menu and search for NTFS and click somewhere and it will schedule a automatic convert to NTFS for you upon the next boot into windows. It will do the converting for you upon boot up just before it gets to the Windows login screen. PS. Not sure if you are using the Recovery CD or not ... just beware if you do use it, its likely to wipe out your D drive and your 3rd partition as well, b/c the Recovery CD puts everything to factory standard. |
Nomad (952) | ||
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