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CableX
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_ 		21. February 2007 @ 16:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
CAN SOME HELP ME I NEED TO FROMAT MY HARD-DIVE CAN SOMEONE TELL ME STEP BY STEP PLS.
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onya
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_ 		21. February 2007 @ 18:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Here's a pretty good set of Instructions.

Cheers.
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steimy
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_ 		22. February 2007 @ 03:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yeah, go to my computer
right click on the hard drive and choose format from the drop down menu. Most hard drives come with software to format them.
Also Partition Magic is good for formating.
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Spenman91
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_ 		22. February 2007 @ 12:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If it is just a storage drive you can do that, if it is a system drive however with windows installed for example it won't allow you to format it that way. Actually I guess it would all depend on what he wanted to do and what his situation was. If it was new and he wanted to format it so he could use it. If it was a system drive he wanted to format. Or just a storage drive that he wanted to delete all the data off of.
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neptune
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_ 		22. February 2007 @ 16:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
other day i copied one hard drive to another . and i chose to partion the hole hard drive to 250 gb with the hard drive software . but when done i only get 232 gb. for some reason i can never get the full amount of the 250 gb.
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Spenman91
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_ 		22. February 2007 @ 17:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well you do know that you'll never get the actuall amount that it says right? But I think you should still get a few more gigs than that.
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hayden58
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_ 		23. February 2007 @ 04:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
NEPTUNE, that is normal, you never get the correct amount because of the calculation they use one MB = 1 million bytes when actually computers count like this 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024 so really instead of using 1000bytes = 1 kb, its should be 1024. all that to say, 232 GB for a "250GB" Hard Drive is normal.



also.....my 160gb external HD gave me 148GB or use, so i lost 12GB which translates to like 7.5%.....your 250GB gave you 232, so you lost 7.2%.....the bigger the HD the mosr youll lose, but always about the same percentage lost.
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