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I Need To Erase My Hard Drive. Could Anyone Please Help Me?

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    If you want to erase your hard dive, then you can use the format command. The process of doing this is as under:

    1. Open My Computer
    2. Right click on the particular hard drive you want to erase. A pop up menu appears. Select the format option.
    3. Then a dialog box appears; check the option "Quick Format". Then press the start button.

    This will erase your hard drive.
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    Ghazanali 

    answered 3 years ago

      Erasing old and unused files from the hard drive is very important as it takes a lot of hard disk space and creates a lot of problems in the hard drive. Your hard drive may also crash due to obsolete files. The removal process is quite simple. First thing to do is go the folder 'Program Files' and remove the files of the applications that you have uninstalled long time back.

      Next thing to do is to clean up the hard drive by opening 'My Computer' and right clicking on each of the drives and going to 'Properties'. In that you will see the option to clean the disk and all the old and unwanted files will get deleted from your computer.

      You can also remove the files which you do not use any more such as music files, images, videos, applications etc. as they may take quite a lot of space.
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      Supershalz 

      answered 3 years ago

        There are 2 options to erase
        1- To format the drive manually by Right clicking each Drive Except C Drive which contains the Window or OS information
        2- Secondly to boot your system by using a Window 98 Bootable CD from which you will be able to format C drive even.
        For Step 1 steps are
        1- Open My computer
        2- Right any drive select format
        3- In format options check the Quick format
        4- Press start
        Same steps will be repeated for all drives.
        For Step 2
        1- Restart System press DEL or F1 to enter setup select the 1st bootable device : CD – Room
        2- Press save and exit
        3- Insert win 98 CD click enter
        4- Now select the option Run my system by using CD ROOM (win 98) support
        5- Now enter the name of the CD Drive
        6- Write CD win989 press enter
        7- Write Format C: enter it will ask for Y /N press Y for format
        8- It will format C also and you can install a fresh Operating system now
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        Shah200 

        answered 3 years ago

        Nice posting. You can also erase your hdd by zeroing the data. Zero the data resembles that you data has been over written. Normal formatting doesn't erase data permanently. For this you should use drive wipe software.

        Thank you
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        Farvish

        commented 1 year ago

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