Monday, November 14, 2011

Having Hard Drive Formatting

By Francis Chisem


If you have been asking yourself over and over again on "why is my computer slow" or "why is my computer freezing or crashing", there could be numerous reasons on that. One probable reason why you experience that problem is due to having a corrupted sector on your hard disk drive. This article everything in relation to the process of formatting a hard drive and the possibilities of fixing the issue.

You will be wiping everything off of the drive and this is one thing that everyone should be aware of and be pleased to format a hard drive. The first step will tell you to backup your system to an external hard drive, or an online backup service. All important software program disks as well as your Windows disk and any hardware disks are the things that you need to have in the formatting process.

There is no question of beginning with the formatting process if you have fully backed up and saved all important documents, photos and videos and that you also have the important software ready already.

Just follow the following steps below:

1. You have to insert your Windows or other OS CD or DVD into the drive.

2. After restarting your computer, you immediately to BIOS.

3. After you have seen the area called-- Advanced Bios, you have to look directly into the boot up drive. You need to select to use the CD/DVD Drive first and then follows the hard disk. You window disk has to be placed at the CD/DVD drive, and this is something that you need to know.

4. Remember to save the BIOS setting or typically with F10.

5. Rebooting the system is another thing that you need to do.

You should have prompts on the processes that you would like to do, after you have properly set up your BIOS and the disk has loaded on it. You need to take time to follow the prompts until you get to the point where Windows asks you where you would like to install. You have to follow prompts once again or typically with D to delete and then Y to confirm, after selecting the partition. Once the formatting process is complete , you will have to select a partition to install your new Operating System on Once you gave completed the formatting process, you have to select a partition to install your new Operating System on. You have to remember that doing this take some time.

To end up, you need to ensure that you have done a full backup of all your important files and data prior to running the format hard disk task. Once you perform the formatting process, all your data will be gone forever. There is always a good idea of planning to save important files to another disk drive and while only using the main drive for just your OS system. You have your data stored elsewhere after the event that there is a disk failure.




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