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Hi Guys, My hard disk drive has a problem. I can't access my internal hard disk drive and when I try to format the hdd windows says "Can't format M:". Another, every time I put my HDD on-board (put my HDD-SATA on my motherboard), it stays on POST and it takes 5-20 min. to boot on my OS. HDD Properties: Seagate Baracuda 320GB ST3320418AS Is my hard disk drive has an error or bad sector? Should I replace my HDD? Thanks and God Bless! #TeamPhilippines
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So Ive been trying to format it and it says to turn off write protection.
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How to: format USB flash drive not showing up on computer A member had a problem with one of his USB flash drives. Something went wrong when he formatted it with a format program to turn the flash drive into a linux live drive. As a result of this his USB flash drive no longer showed up in the "computer" folder. The USB flash drive did show up on the windows 7 Disk Management but it was grayed out and he could not format it via the Disk Management. This tutorial will fix the problem by formatting it using diskpart. WARNING: You will lose all data on the USB flash drive! Step 1: type "diskpart" in the windows search bar and open the program, preferably by right-clicking and selecting "Run as administrator". Step 2: Once you opened diskpart you will need to type in the following command: "list disk" This will list all the Hard drives and USB flash drives connected to the computer. Step 3: Locate you USB flash drive by looking at the size of the drive in the list, make sure you remember the Disk number. In my case it's a 32GB flash drive, so mine is the 29GB drive listed as "Disk 8" WARNING: Don't continue to step 4 unless you are 100% sure that you have the right drive or you will clean the wrong drive! Step 4: Select the troubled USB flash drive by typing the command: "select disk (insert the drive number here without brackets)" In my example it is Disk 8. Step 5: Now you must clean the drive by giving the "clean" command. Step 6: Next thing you need to do is create a partition with the command "create partition primary" Step 7: Now you need to select the partition you just created by giving the following command: "select partition 1" Step 8: Last step, you need to format the flash drive with the following command: "format fs=ntfs label=USB quick" Victory: You can close diskpart. The drive will now show up on your computer listed as USB formatted with the NTFS file system. Please like this post if it was helpful. looney
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Hello everyone Ive a 1tb WD green drive which i think has been running a bit slow lately, as in takes sometime to open a fairly low res image, this only started happening after i reinstalled windows on my ssd so ill format that hdd and see if that fixes it. However my question is, what is the difference between format and quick format? Thank you!
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So I want to convert some FLAC files and some movies I have to a format which my iPod will accept. Any good converters to MP3 or any other format?
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Hi Everyone, I am thinking of upgrading to Windows 8 from Windows 7. Is it necessary to format my hard OS drive prior to installing Windows? Also, I am currently using a pirated version of Windows 7 that my cousin installed on my computer for me that I thought was a paid copy. I didn't realize it was pirated until recently and I want to have a legitimate copy of Windows. Thank you in advance for your responses!
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Hey LTT, So I finally got my other drive, and I am going to hackintosh my PC. I know all my hardware is compatible, but I just wanna make sure my plan of action is correct before I start. What I would like to end up with, is a partitioned dual boot of Windows 8.1 and Mac OS. My current drive setup is as follows: 250GB HDD (formatted for mass windows storage), and a 256GB SSD with JUST Windows 8.1 installed. I was thinking about either partitioning or wiping my HDD because its empty, then cloning my SSD to the HDD. Then, I would wipe the SSD as freespace, then boot into my Mac OS install USB to format the SSD for Mac OS. What I was then going to do is partition off about 60GB in mac, then format the other space of the SSD as freespace for my windows clone I made earlier. After, I would go through with the Mac install, and get all that up and running. Once Mac is running, I was going to boot onto the HDD to format the freespace so I can clone my OS back to the SSD. Then, I would go on having a now partitioned dual boot of Mac OS and Windows 8.1. Will this work, or will my Windows OS not boot after I try and clone it back onto the SSD?
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A friend of mine recently came to me asking if I could completely format her laptop so she could resell it. I accepted the task since it didn't sound that difficult a task, but I have a few questions before proceeding. My plan of action was to use DBAN to wipe everything and reinstall Windows, but before I do that, I need to know if I can use another friend's copy of Windows 7 Home Premium to install as long as I register with the product key on the bottom of the laptop, and if This option is at all viable seeing as there were no driver CDs, etc., that came with the laptop? I ask the second question because I've never done something like this and I don't know if I can get the system back to 100% with just stuff I can pull from the Windows disk and product websites. My common sense tells me that if I do enough research I should be able to get all the essential drivers for the computer before the wipe, put them on a jump drive, and get everything working fine, but I just want to make sure. Here's some information: Laptop - HP Paviliion dv6 OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit HDD - Toshiba MK6461GSYN 640 GB Disk Management - 199 MB to partition SYSTEM (system, active, primary partition) 581.28 GB to partition (C:) (boot, page file, crash dump, primary partition) 14.59 GB to partition RECOVERY (D:) (primary partition) 103 MB to partition HP_TOOLS (F:) (primary partition) which is FAT32 instead of NTFS and contains folders "BIOS", "BIOSUpdate", and "SystemDiags". On this partition are files with extensions such as .efi, .s09, .sig, .bin, .dat, and .udm, most of which I don't recognize. This partition worries me when contemplating a total wipe and reinstall, but I wonder if it's something that I could just copy to a temporary jump drive and replace later? Processor - AMD A8-3500M APU Display Adapters - Radeon HD 6750M and Radeon HD 6620G, one of which I assume is the integrated graphics. AMD System Monitor confirms that they are running in dual graphics mode. Disk Drive - HP DVDWBD TS-LB23L If after viewing all of what I've written it's clear to you that I need to take a completely different approach than DBAN, please tell me. I am open to any and all suggestions seeing as I am still only an amature tinkerer and have plenty to learn. Thanks for your time! ~Zach
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Hello everyone, I'm having an issue with one of the USB. It appears to be corrupt and prompts to format the USB before using it. There are important files in it and I tried recovering the file before formatting it, and that didn't work out too well. I decided that maybe after I formatted the USB, I might be able to recover some of the files that was erased; however, I can't seem to format the USB. I tried the following: 1. Right clicking and do a quick and non quick format -- no progress 2. formatting through disk management -- no progress, couldn't even delete volume. 3. using 3rd party programs to delete the partition -- no progress. What I noticed is that when I try to format the USB, it seems that the Capacity is wrong. It only shows 8.00 MB and I'm not sure if this might be the problem. Can someone help? I'm trying to do this for my sister as the USB have quite important files for school. Also, I'm not sure if I'm posting this under the right section.
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Looking for a trustworthy place to download Windows 7 64 bit from so I can burn a CD and reformat my PC. (I've got an OEM product key with my pre-built HP, but it didn't come with an OS disk)
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Hi guys! I changed my mobo, cpu, psu and gpu recently but i kept the same hard disk without formatting it. I built the pc and it runs fine so far, but a friend of mine told me that a format is needed. Is that true? I don't want to format cuz it's a lot of work..I run win7 32bit btw..
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Ok so I need some help you guru's. My mom is a real estate apraiser and she recently took some photo's with her camera. However when she came home and tried to upload them to her computer using an SD card reader, and windows 7 immediately prompted her to format the card. She hasn't done anything to the card itself, it seems to have just decided that the card is the wrong format, at random. Is there any workaround for this? If we format the card she will have to drive all the way back out to the customer's house and take a bunch of pictures all over again, and she'd rather not do that. I'd Appreciate any help you guys can give me on this. Normally I'm her tech support, but this goes beyond my knowledge.
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I recieved a micro sd card (8Gb) that had been formated by a smart phone to try to fix. It has 0bytes used of 0bytes free in properties and when it connects to my PC it tells me I need to format it than the format fails. I've tried diskmgmt.msc and the only thing I can do without getting an error is delete and reassign the letter associated with the device. I've tried SDFormater V4.0 and it claims the write protection is on. Their is not write protection switch on this Micro SD card I went into regedit and the StorageDevicePolicies didn't exist so I had to create that I tried setting the value to 1 and 0 reseting each time neither of them worked. StorageDevicePolicies was created in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control I appreciate any help or suggestions provided. I am running Windows 8.0
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How to: Format / Initialize a HDD larger then 2TB. This tutorial will show you how to Initialize and format a brand new HDD larger then 2TB If you have just installed the drive it will not show up on your computer yet. This is because the drive needs to be initialized and formatted first. If your HDD is already showing up as a 2TB drive then please use this tutorial Instead: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/94620-how-to-fix-3tb-hdd-showing-up-as-a-2tb-hdd/ Step 1: type "diskmgmt.msc" in the windows search bar and open the program, preferably by right-clicking and selecting "Run as administrator". Step 2: Once you opened the Disk Management it should immediately show you the "Initialize Disk" popup window. It is very important that you select "GPT (GUID Partition Table)". Press ok Step 3: Now that the drive is initialized we need to format the drive. Right click on the drive and select "New Simple Volume..." Step 4: Press next. Step 5: You can now set the partition size, this is set the the maximum size by default. Press next. Step 6: Use the drop-down menu If you want to change the drive letter. Press next Step 7: Next up you can fill in the drive name (Volume label) Press next. Step 8: Press finish. Victory: Your drive is now formatted and you can use the whole drive instead of just the 2TB. Please like this post if it was helpful. looney
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I'm having issues with my new computer because i tried moving my "Program Files", "Program Files (x86)", and "Users" files over from my ssd to my hard-drive because i didn't want much stuff taking up space on my ssd. I used this method from tested.com: http://www.tested.com/tech/2341-how-to-move-your-apps-and-user-files-to-a-secondary-drive/. By using this method, the ssd should think that all the folders are still there, when they really are on the Hard Drive. The "Program Files", "Program Files (x86)", and "Users" -folders was now showing up with a shortcut icon on them, just as the website told me they would. I think something went wrong when I was using cmd, because I couldn't open one of the Program Files-folders (can't remember if it was the "Program Files" one or the "(x86)" one), and some programs, like Internet Explorer wasn't able to run, and just showed an error message when I was trying to open them. What I then did, was mindlessly formatting my hard drive, for some reason hoping for it to do something. It was a really bad idea, because my computer froze, and I had to force a shutdown by hitting the power button on my case. Now I'm unable to log into my Windows Profile, and it tells me that it couldn't log in to the Windows User Profile Service. I'm guessing this have something to do with me formatting my hard drive. So, then I'm trying to re-install windows to make it work again, but it turns out that my windows CD isn't working anymore either. It tells me to insert a installation media (which is the windows CD) but It just tells me that the CD is an invalid media. It does this with both the 32-bit and the 64-bit CD's. My backup from before this whole process is also gone. This is the point where I don't know what to do, and I could really need some good help from someone. Thank you to anyone who can give me any helpful information!
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I own an ASUS k53sv and i just re installed windows 7 ultimate on it. It has been running slow and i was fed up. I decided on a clean install. I backed up all my stuff and inserted the CD, changed the boot order and begun the installation. The PC had a partitioned drive so i deleted the partition clearing it and formatted the correct drive that was labeled system. I went through all the steps until it rebooted a few times it was all going smoothly until after with windows 7 splash thing with the 4 colors that spin around to create the logo a screen i haven't seen before appears displaying the ASUS logo with some blue swirly lines and and a navy colored background. Then the computer just restarts does the ASUS splash thing the windows one then sits at this new ASUS screen and tries again over and over. I don't know what to do and i need some advice! Did i do something wrong with the windows setup? Is it something ASUS uses to prevent a new OS being used? Can i fix it? Specs: Intel® Core™ i5 2430M/2410QM/2410M Processor Windows 7 Home Premium (HAD) Intel® HM65 Express Chipset DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM, 4GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M - 2GB DDR3 VRAM 750GB 5400rpm
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Hi, I have an issue with MS Excel (Office 365). There are a few cells with numbers in them. I chose a conditional format to visualize those numbers. However, after saving and reopening the file, the conditional format changed and is not the way I want it to be. This happens only in a specific file - trying it with a new file doesn't result in a changed format. I don't want to move all my sheets into a new file, maybe one of you recognizes this issue and can help. For display I've created a new sheet in my Excel file. Please see this video depicting the issue: http://a.pomf.se/fgukog.webm (.webm files can be viewed in browser (firefox) or with VLC, etc.) Thanks a lot.
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So i just bought a brand new 16GB SanDisk CruZer USB drive and when i got home and plugged it in to my PC it says: "you need to format the disk in E: before you can use it." so then i tried formatting and it says my drive is only 14.9GB what?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? so i got really disappointed but i still tried to format it. Format: 14.9GB FAT32(default) 8192 bytes allocation unit size i unticked quick format because there isnt any data on it but later i also ticked it but all the times i tried to format it it just says: windows was unable to complete the format. Please help me!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your time!!!
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Hello, I am having troubles with using my "normal" hard drive to install programs such as microsoft office. I boot games and my OS off my SSD, but when I save things to my storage harddrive it tells me I have no space on it. How may I fix this? I can drag and drop items into the hard drive, but I can't install programs.
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I'm currently in the process of building a new PC and I want to use the SSD from my old build. What I'm wondering is when re-installing windows 7 for the new system should I do a quick format or a full format? Which will be the best for the life of the SSD? Would doing a quick format effect performance? The SSD I have is a 128gb Samsung 830
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So I know all the dangers of tampering with system 32 but I was wondering, because everyone keeps saying your pc will not boot... and my understanding of an os is that it is on the hdd... so if someone loses system 32, can't they just format the drive and reinstall windows?
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So recently I've bought a new SSD (HyperX Predator 240GB) for my PC, and now I want to put my OS and other stuff there for the *extreme speed*. But I realized that my hdd contains a lot of junk stuffs that I want to delete. Question is: how can I format my HDD (which actually has the OS)? And I don't want to transfer data from HDD to SSD, just do a big clean of everything.