How To Format A Hard Drive

Here's how to format a hard disk (legal things: We are not responsible for any damage, loss of data or something like that) ... If you have a computer, you know what May is a hard drive. If you do not have one, or simply do not know what a hard drive, as the article begins with a brief description of the hard drive. Then, we will do even formatting a hard disk ... Step 1: What a hard drive? A hard disk in the computer is a type of storage device composed of the hard disk, a brooch, read and write heads read and write arms, electric motors, electronic integrated and contained in a watertight enclosure. Now, do you know what the hard drive. I stick to the letter and begins with information on the title of this article. How to format a hard drive .... Step 2 ... First, you must have a reason, if you really want to learn how to format a hard drive. But we must not forget that formatting a hard disk not delete your data! Of course, when the format on the hard drive you think the data is actually removed, but this is not the case. The fact is that the data has deleted to regenerate. But you should not test the format of a hard drive, because you never know what can happen. Of course, also depends on the software you use, for example, these types of products that will delete the data you want, you can continue the process of how to format a hard drive. Step 3 ... In fact, it is not so hard on him. You must first determine what the operating system intended to instruct after formatting a hard disk. It is better and easier to use a boot disk for the operating system such as multiple sclerosis Dos6.2 or Windows95b or Windows 98. You need a good Windows95/98 boot disk to load the operating systems on your computer, something else must dismiss the charge due to a malfunction in the computer. Step 4 ... Then, insert the boot disk in the floppy drive and restart the computer. Once the system has completed the start-up and an A: appears. You must type format c: / s and press Enter. The function of this command is to tell the system to its format C and the head once it has finished copying the file system to the camera. / S modifications System . You can format a different in this way with another drive letter. Step 5 ... When you look at the screen as follows: warnings, all data on a non-removable disk C: drive was lost! Continuing with the format (Y / N)? And if you really want to continue, type [Y] and press Enter. The screen displays the size of the device and a countdown percentage points. Depending on the speed of the computer and the size of the device may take a few minutes to more than 15 minutes. When he reached 100%, you will see a new message: the format. Transfer System. This message is to indicate that the files needed to start the computer from the hard drive was copied to the floppy drive. The computer can now start from the hard drive without boot disk in the floppy drive. The last message that appears on the screen are as follows: label volume (11 characters, ENTER any)? You can hit any key to continue or just press Enter. Now we can finally begin to load the operating system. Please note that May you receive an error message that says enough memory to transfer files. If you receive this message, do not worry. It is due to a lack of a memory manager is loaded at startup and PC is available for the first 1 mg RAM. You can manage this situation with two options. The first is to remove / s when you format. You must do so by writing this: format c: and press Enter. Then, when it is finished, add the system files on your hard drive using the following command: sys c: and press Enter. The second solution is to load a memory manager in order to overcome this problem. If you do not have a can download millions of websites on the Internet. Step 6 ... You see, we have finally reached the end of how to format a hard drive. and the correspondent? At the end of this article. Now you know how May to format a hard drive. But once again not play with the controls if they are not serious about formatting a hard disk. Although the data are restored, you can do whatever harm your computer. Therefore, you must be careful! And now, good luck! ? 2004-2005 Brian Maroevich About the author Brian Maroevich is the founder of the http://Cheap-Computers-Guild.com target = _new cheap-PC-Guild.com. Brian is also a writer, marketing consultant, enthusiastic team and the athlete. E-mail: brian@cheap-computers-guild.com brian@cheap-computers-guild.com