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Help reformatting HD please

Stimpyone · 2007-01-03 12:15:24

Hi, I was just wondering which is the quickest easiest way of formatting a hard drive. I bought one of these of Ebay http://cgi.ebay.ie/Portable-MP4-MP3-DVD-MPEG-Player-3-5-AV-HDD-Player-D0P_W0QQitemZ200064122642QQihZ010QQcategoryZ96894QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem and I have an old computer running windows 98 with…

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Stimpyone

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Hi, I was just wondering which is the quickest easiest way of formatting a hard drive. I bought one of these of Ebay

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Portable-MP4-MP3-DVD-MPEG-Player-3-5-AV-HDD-Player-D0P_W0QQitemZ200064122642QQihZ010QQcategoryZ96894QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and I have an old computer running windows 98 with an 80gig IDE drive that I wanted to wipe clean and stick into my new toy. I know a format won't remove everything and something's may be still recoverable , but as this is for personal use I'm not too worried about that.

Thanks for your help.

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#2 03-01-2007 12:34pm

Steffano2002

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Put your HDD in the case, plug it into your computer. It should show up as a removable drive. Right click > Format

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#3 03-01-2007 6:05pm

DirkVoodoo

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Stick in your windows xp cd, boot from the cd and format it through there. I think red hat also has some nice format tools if you have a cd.

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