formatting

is it true that formatting degrades hard disk performance?

Can you please tell me if there is any difference between formatting a drive on the hard disk, and deleting all the contents (including hidden files) on the drive (for example C: drive)?

hey guyz I installed a theme on my 6630 and applied its operator logo using FExplorer now the oplogo is stuck there and I want to remove the logo Ihave tried uninstalling the theme and resetting factory settings for fone but no luck can any one tell me how to get rid of the operator...

Wat is low-level formatting n how it is performed?

after finishing "nfsu2 + nfsu" i decided to roll back to nfs hp2 to give it another try[; completed previously], then after playing i found that the controls of nfshp2 feels floaty and lazy, so is there any way to make this a little more responsive by doing some thing to the file of that game...

Hi people, Can somebody please tell me how to format my Comp.(step -by-step). I also want to save the save game of Fifa 2005 i.e after formatting i need to start from where i stopped in the game. My OS Win Xp SP2. Somebody please help :( :( :( :(

i want to format my pc how can i do ? i have win 98 installed on my pc also formatting the pc will i lose everything tht is stored on my computer/

I have two operating systems – windows ME and Windows XP on C: and D: drives respectively. Recently I reinstalled windows ME after formatting C: drive and replaced BOOT.INI file, which I have backed up before formatting c: drive but it not worked. I have also used solution provide in June...

I have 5 partitions on my 80GB hdd. it has win98 on c: and winXP on d: . is there a possibility of formatting drive c (win98) completely and transfer winXP to drive c: or is there any problem of merging C: and D: after formatting c:. I have norton partition magic 8.05 but i'm relatively new to...

Hi Guys... This is Vicky here. As you know i'm always in problem. So here I go with my new problem. I'm using (Seagate 10GB HDD - the victim) with my PIII 500 Mhz, Intel Chipset Motherboard running Windows 98 having 128 Ram from the last 3 years. The system was working...

i delete partition without formatting hd partition. when i boot win 98 cd some process occur after give message fixed disk on choice format hd option or other option and stop the process? thanks for suggation...... :? :?

How much time i can format my harddisk...???? upto here i formatted it many times but i dont faced any problem but now i heard that many time formatting cause disastor...for harddisk can u help me?? :? :? :? :roll:

Hello friends, I tried recently fomatting and resizing my HDD 80GB. i have winxp sp2. when i tried fdisk to remove the partition it shows junk characters as volume label in HDD. when i tried formatting , i got invalid device parameter as the error. Is it due to bad sector . I tried scandisk...

can any one tell me how to do low level formating

hi, Well from this morning i have been formatting my hard disk's first partition C: again & again to install my windows properly but i encountered a few very new problems : 1: my formatting stops at 39% & to raise it up by just 1% i mean till 40% it takes ard 5 minutes ( hell lot of...

Hi.......... I FORMATTED MY ALL PARTIONS WITH NTFS AND NOW I CAN'T GET ACCESS VIA DOS NOW I'VE NO ANY OS AND I WANT TO FORMATTING ALL IN FAT 32. HOW CAN I GET ACCESS IN DOS

i have an adcom fast ethernet adapter with realtek 8139 chiset... now my problem is that earlier i mean 2 days back b4 formatting Win xp used to detect it properly as realtek... but after formatting... i re-intalled xp 3 times... but in xp it just duznt detect.. when i install Xp SP1 it...