I was reading how to format my HP computer and it says "Disconnect all connected devices (such as the Personal Media Drive, USB drives, printer, and fax), remove media from drives, and remove any recently added internal hardware. Do not disconnect the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power cord." Do I really need to disconnect anything I recently put into my computer to upgrade it. This step they call for seems useless?
View 5 Repliesim running vista home premium and Ive been trying to transfer all my old files and pics from a external hardrive which is hitachi ide that was out of my old laptop running xp
when i plug it in through the usb and look at my computer its not recognizing it but when i look in storage in computer management at the botton it says unknown disc not initialized so i am unable to browse the hardrive.
I installed vista 64bit today on a sata harive in my new computer. Now in my old computer i had a 300gb IDE hardrive and i installed this in the new system and it is recognised in vista but says i cant use it before i format it...However i cant do this becasue i have so much data on it...Is there anyway to view it without formatting it?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have just bought a Sata/Ide to usb converter, but when I plug my harddrive into the usb port of any computer (vista or xp) it beeps and installs the Drivers and even adds the little safely remove hardware icon down in the system tray. but I can't find the hardrive in my computer or in administrative tools. I have tried an IDE hardrive,a 2.5 inch sata hardrive and a cdrom drive, why is it not working. The Adapter is Brand New, I have only just opened it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI had recent problems with my computer, so I was forced to do a full re-install of vista. I rebooted my computer, booted up the vista home premium x64 cd, and when I got to the screen where I had to choose a hard drive to install vista on, I ran into a problem. First, I tried to format the drive, wanting a clean restart, and got an error saying vista could not format the partition on disk 0( I have 1 hardrive with no partitions) The drive was cleared though, it updated the screen saying that it had 1000gb/1000gb free. I figured all was well. So I continued and tried to install vista and got an error saying that "Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occured while preparing the partition slected for installation". Setup then immediatly stopped.
I tired forming new partitions, deleting the partitions, but nothing helped. I tried the load drivers option at the hardrive select screen and tried every disc that came with my computer, but it kept saying it cant find the driver. I read on the microsoft website that I might need to provide the correct drivers for the hard disk controller. But I cant find it. I have a hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 *SATA* hardrive model no HUA721010KLA330. I checked their website and it says they are not offering drivers anymore. I now have a completely empty hardrive and I cant install vista.
i am a novice at this and would apreciate any advise you could give,i have a hp vista home premium 32 bit pc.i backed up my files onto an external hardrive as i have read was the proper thing to do.i think one of my downloads was infected with a trojan horse so i tried a system restore,that did not help,so i did a system recovery back to factory settings i would now like to install my files from the external hardrive but i dont know where to begin as i understand when they get backed up on the hardrive they are in a compressed state
View 9 Replies View RelatedI did a system "complete pc back up" throught the "Back up status and configuration" program that comes with vista. This saved the items to my external hard drive but using the restore feature I can not do a system restore from these files. I can find the external harddrive, it just can not access the files on the drive.
View 6 Replies View Relatedok so vista doesnt let me format my comp from the desktop.
i still have the recovery disk i made like 2 mins after setting up my PC.
the only problem is will the recovery disk help reinstall vista?? or will my comp just stop working completely?
apart from the above questions i also have no idea how to format my computer, i know during the boot up process its in one of the TAB, DEL OR ESC menus what what one? and once i get into it then where do i go?
I need to format my computer. I have four partitions and would like to move my o/s to a larger partition and make it my new c:. I'm running Vista business 64. I new how to do it with xp, but not sure about Vista. I could use some pointers if you have them.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI now have figured out how to format a DVD-R Disk, I only have to insert the DVD and the Autoplay box comes up and I pick burn files to disk using Windows and click on Show formatting options and select Mastered Formatting option. do the same with a DVD-R Disk, I insert the DVD-R Disk and nothing happens, the Autoplay box does not come up so I can't select the format option, I go into My Computer and click on the E: DVD DRIVE and if I go and click on format it only gives me one option to fast format the DVD disk but then it will format it (Live File Format) and I want Mastered Format, How do I format the DVD +R Disk as Mastered? Sorry for all the stupid questions but I am new to using DVD'S and am
struggling to figure this out.
I bought a used system and there is no vista install disk ,so to make things right can i buy a copy of 32 ultimate ,install it then use the new liscence and will it pick up the programs i am running ,or will i have to re-install right from scratch re-formatting etc. Xp was like ,you could run it over top of an old copy and all data and programs would come back
View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed a new, second HDD. I initialized it and began formatting it on Disk Management. When I just came back after being away from the computer for a few minutes, I noticed that the whole HDD, not to mention its formatting process, had completely disappeared from Disk Management! The HDD is still physically connected, it wasn't taken away by a fairy. What caused this and how to prevent it from happening?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I format a CD-RW disk which is 700MB the dialog box says that it is only 473MB in size. I am trying to copy photo's which should easily fit into 700MB but the disk is full after only half have been burnt.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a160GB external HD with three partitions. I took it out of a laptop (I was using it to run Windows on that laptop), formatted the 'main' partition (approx. 145GB), and installed Linux on it. The machine I was running Linux in is 'dead' now, so I want to format this 'main' partition again (in Windows), so I can use it for storage or whatever. The problem is that when I plug it into my machine running Vista, it 'sees' the 'recovery' partition (still there from when I was using it in the original laptop), but it doesn't 'see' that 'main' partition (the one I had Linux on). I went into Disk Management, and I can see all three partitions, but when I try to access that 'main' partition,it won't let me do anything with it. Right-clicking the partition brings up my options, but they're all grayed out. I realize that I can't open the partition in Windows, since it has Linux on it, but why can't I format it in Disk Management? I have no way to get into the Linux OS to try to uninstall or format it that way, since the machine is 'dead'.
How can I go ahead and format this partition?
I have a Vista Premium PC where I installed a trial version of a program,let it expire and now I bought the full version but cannot seem to get it to install since the ghost of the old trial version seems to be haunting my PC. Before I start formatting the drive (and lose all my other programs and settings) and attempt to reinstall Vista, I was wondering whether there was some easy way to wipe all traces of the trial program? I am no great tech expert, so protracted brain surgery with registry settings may not be an option for me!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI had to format my HDD and re-instal Vista Ultimate OEM... it wont install. Gets to the final stages of install and then just never completes it. Does anyone know what I need to do to get my media centre working again?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was just wondering if it's possible to format or atleast re-installWindows Vista on my Laptop without the CD and Serial Number? (unlessthat's the serial number under my computer,)I really want to do this, but I have no clue how-to and what's needed and such.
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Why does Vista format CDR and CDRW disks before they can be used? Is there any way of stopping this?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm finding that cell formatting (eg, dates) will no longer work in Excel 2000. Whether it is an existing spreadsheet or a new one, cell formatting does not work, and all dates entered are treated as text. This applies whether the cell formatting is done before or after the date is entered. It does appear to be a Vista/Excel 2000 conflict of some sort as it did not happen until after I got Vista. And I've just opened (from a Windows XP computer on the same network) some of the offending files, and the problem does not exist.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an internal IDE HDD that I have put in an USB external enclosure and connected to my Dell Vista laptop. When I attempt to format the drive in Computer Management, I assign it a letter and format with NTFS. However, the result is a Healthy Partition in RAW format. When I try to attempt to reformat using quick format, sometimes it will format it again as RAW, or it will give me an error message stating that Windows cannot format the drive. Again, the HDD shows up as a Simple, Basic, Healthy(Primary Partition) with a RAW File System. I cannot access the drive and put files on it.
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow do you format HD in Vista. I searched in HELP section. these are entries in results:
How often do I need to be concerned with formatting disks?
What do I need to do to format a hard disk?
What file system should I use?
What's a quick format?
What are partitions and volumes?
How do I create more partitions?
How do I add a new hard disk?
under 2nd entry it says something like you need to create partitions first, then format each partition, this is RETARDED.. (ah yes, nothing with Vista is simple.. as soon as I have money I will purchase Windows XP, and ditch Vista for good...) in any other OS you right-click on drive you want to format and then hit "format"
I wish to create a (1. floppy or 2. CD) boot disk (with support software) to allow me to initialize (partition) and format my HDD drives before I actually install Vista (am not using any IDE drives). From all the (unthinkable) problems being discussed about Vista, I wish to eliminate the possibility of Windows not recognizing nor allowing use of my new drives. Is this possible? If so, How? And if not, Why not?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm using Vista Home Premium on an Acer Aspire laptop, and recently I lost access to half my hard drive. I rang my manufacturers support line, and they told me how to create a new vloume using disk management. However, when i double click it, it says it needs to be formatted. After waiting a long time (twice!) for the volume to format, it reaches 100% completion and then an error message apears saying 'Windows cannot complete the format'. This happens when i try Quick Format too. Upon clicking OK, i get a further message saying 'Check to see that the disk and drive are connected properly, and make sure the disk is not read only'. The disk is certainly not read only, I can see the drive in MyComputer etc. but cannot open or explore it. In Properties, it says the volume is 0 bytes big! And it should be 50GB.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIfsIHA.5472@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>I have a Vista Premium PC where I installed a trial version of a program, let it expire and now I bought the full version but cannot seem to get it to install since the ghost of the old trial version seems to be haunting my PC.
Before I start formatting the drive (and lose all my other programs and settings) and attempt to reinstall Vista, I was wondering whether there was some easy way to wipe all traces of the trial program? I am no great tech expert, so protracted brain surgery with registry settings may not be an option for me!
I was wondering, since a system restore is basically restoring your system to a state it was at before, does it have anything to do with files you have deleted/moved etc. (will a system restore undo file deletions?), or does it have only to do with things like the registry? (restoring key entries in the registry) What does it have to do with and not to do with? Secondly let's say you purchased a dell, it's going to be at factory condition, meaning it has windows and a bunch of other stuff on it. You install a fresh copy of windows via a windows cd, thereby deleting every driver and utility on there and have only a seemingly useless thing.
1. Will a system restore bring your computer back to factory condition? (the way it was when you bought it)
2. I also guess you can do a system restore if and only if you have a system restore point. How do you make one and how can you tell you've made one before? (in other words how can you tell you made one at a certain point and how it is like? Or, if someone else made one for you, how can you check this and what the restore point is like?)
Am trying to move some things to a CD-R disc, but nothing comes on screen for formatting when I insert new, clean CD into Dr. E. What am I doing wrong?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've used this forum A LOT to find answers to the many problems I've had with my pc - now I have one that I can't find a solution for, so here I am posting! I'm trying to format a new Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB hdd but it won't go any further than 73%. Computer Management tells me that its still formatting (i.e. NO error message) but its been there for hours. I've tried formatting from the Vista installation cd during boot but it plain refused (I forget the error message), it won't even do a quick format in Computer Management. Is my drive humped?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi wan't to install another OS in my newly created partition in my Vista. but im not sure which to select in formatting: primary or local? i prevously selected local. can i still change that if i reformat it again? im all set and that's the only thing i wanna know to have a flawless installation.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've got a 3-yr old Dell laptop that I recently upgraded to Vista Business from WinXP Pro with SP3. It's a spare for the staff and it has been checked out. The staff member came back to say the HDD was almost full, I checked and saw that only 7 GB of the 80 GB total was free. So I uninstalled a bunch of programs and windows components she didn't need or want, ran Disk Cleanup, Defrag .... I was only able to reclaim 3 GB. Downloaded a trusty defrag program I use - JK Defrag - and ran it. Only gained another GB. Rebooted a couple times and re-ran JK Defrag. No gain. Checked the folder sizes and saw that the WINSXS folder was huge. Checked it via Google and saw that I can't really get rid of it.
Short of re-formatting the HDD and starting over, what else can I do to reclaim disk space? I'm guessing that Defrag and JK Defrag aren't doing so well becuase they have less than 10 GB of "wiggle room" to work with.
Vista Business plus Office 2007 sometimes causes problems - particularly with Search/Replace - that MS cannot resolve. A friend uses Open Office on his XP machine for certain functions that create difficulties with MSOffice. Documents apparently move back and forth easily, retaining formatting. Have readers here had success with Open Office on Vista?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI got this message when trying to convert my HDD in Command prompt: Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode. I did get it working after I did Run as administrator and it worked, but it takes ages formatting........The external HDD I was converting is 500GB, due to how long it was taking I cancelled it. Does anyone know how I can do a quick fat32 formatting or conversion in vista?
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