Dan the Computer Man Episode 1: How to Format a Hard Drive

This is the 1st episode of my new show! Hope you enjoy it! Oh, and don't forget to back up all your files before formatting!

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[ladiezman247]

what if your computer needs a admin password

[saxman112]

@ladiezman247 If you need that password, as long as you know it, you'll be fine.

[ladiezman247]

@saxman112 thats the problem i dont know it do i need to change the harddrive to get rid of it then or can i use a program to get rid of it

[saxman112]

@ladiezman247 You will need to get a new hard drive and install Windows on it, and then you can format the other drive/partition from there.

[11sponge]

it is not winders xp it is windows xp

[saxman112]

I did say Windows XP. The audio quality with my old camera kinda sucked.

[seolgongchanshi]

thanks dan :D

[unclejimmybobrules]

right, sorry i have two drives, thats why i can do it

[kite781]

Dan, I want your body, I can no longer hold my passion, it's been 4 long years since we first made a chance encounter. </3

[thesmartdjmarsh]

@KyllaBlynq mY bUtT rIpPeD sO lOuD wHeN i dId tHiS. lMaO.

[KyllaBlynq]

My PC beeped sooooooooooo loud when i did this to it. lol

[rockerresident]

i reformated my pc it restarts and shuts down 10x faster than before ..

my prblem is the hard disk was still 80% occupied i lookd at the progrm files and found al the stuffs tht was there before i format my pc was still der ,so i've tried delting the files but still free spce was very small.. i dlete  some and still the free space was very small ... my question is wer can i find those files that is eating up the space of hd the size is 60 the free 18 ,checkd d instlled prgrm found none

[bendix109]

@saxman112 Dan is the Nerd Man , not the computer man.

[bendix109]

@saxman112 Press F2 to go to setup menu for the motherboard then change the selection for bootable device select CD drive on number 1, floppy drive on number 2 and hard drive on number 3 then click Esc to exit then click save to restart computer. The computer should boot from CD when the CD drive device is set on number 1 selection , some computers has factory default setting that the hard drive bootable device is set on number 1 that's why the computer start normally even with CD in the drive.

[bendix109]

@saxman112 You're not computer man you don't know computer that much. You do it the hard way just to format the hard drive all you need is to press ENTER in the menu choice instead of press R recovery console. Someone asked you how to boot computer from CD when the computer is start normally with the CD already in it and your answer was u have 2 do is eject the CD drive with your computer on, then you have to restart . Wrong, dude!! when the computer doesn't boot from CD you have to press F2