Erase Your Hard Drive
Do you want to
erase your hard drive , or simply partition / repartition. Many
people get confused about partitioning a hard drive or erasing.
If you want to make sure that it’s much harder for anyone to
recover any data or you would like to divide your hard drive
into 2 or more partitions then you’ll be looking to repartition.
Formatting or erasing
your hard drive, does not actually delete any data it just
enables it to be over written, which is why many applications
are able to recover data even if a hard drive has been erased /
formatted
Whatever your needs I
would always still partition a hard drive, and then format
afterwards, simply for peace of mind. If you simply want to
partition your hard drive to create more partitions there are a
number of packages on the market to help with this such as
Partition magic, but unless you want to resize live partitions
then this is not for you. If you do make sure you’ve backed up
your vital data files prior to this.
If you have a
single hard drive setup you’ll need to be able to erase or wipe
your hard drive from a boot disk such as a Windows XP, 2000 or
Vista boot CD, please note this is not the same as the system
restore CD.
A genuine Windows
Operating system CD will enable you to boot from this and then
as you go to install the software follow the prompts through to
either Format / erase or partition your hard drive.
I could go into more
detail here but once you boot from the CD it really is very easy
to follow.
If you have a dual disk setup or you want a dual disk setup once
you’ve added the secondary disk you need to prepare it for use,
simply right click on my computer, select manage, under the
storage section choose Disk Management, Look for Disk 1 right
click on it, now create the partition and format, if you choose
fast format it will only take a few seconds to complete. Now
from either my computer or Windows explorer you should see you
new hard drive.
As a tip when you
erase your hard drive always choose NTFS or New Technology File
System as the format, it’s offers much more security and better
data compression that other older formats such as FAT32
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