Reformatting the hard drive - Dell Dimension 3000 PC Desktop

It depends upon where you want to install the hard drive, ie inside your computer as a Boot drive or as a 2nd hard drive (slave) or as an external USB hard drive.
Let me know what you intend to do with this hard drive and I can advise you accordingly.

If your console won't reformat your hard drive may be malfunctioning. you can buy them from best buy or anywhere that sells computer hardware and accessories. However, it may be your motherboard that has malfunctioned so hold on to the receipt for your hard drive. If you try to reformat the new hard drive and it still doesnt work you have a problem with your motherboard.

If you are reformatting the disk on a Mac, then open the Disk Utility, then click reformat, and choose the format FAT32. If you have it connected to your PC, go to my computer, right click and select reformat, then choose FAT32.

DISCLAIMER: REFORMATTING AND/OR FORMATTING WILL ERASE EVERYTHING THAT IS ON THE HARD DRIVE. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT BACKED UP.

Hope this helps!

Thank you Mr.Tyler & Mr. flamboyant , I can`t doing follow your recomment because don`t automatic driver installation and can`t see in device manager.

If you reformat it ALL will be lost on the hard drive if that is what you reformat. Then you will have to do a cold start using the Windows installation disks from scratch. This is a LAST ditch thing to do.

To reformat the hard drive completely you will have to use the utilities on your Windows installation disks which you may or may not have. Make sure you have your serial number and the necessary stuff to re-activate Windows and ALL other software disks for all the programs you have been using. Also any data you have such as photos, etc must all be saved on other medi that you can reload after reformatting and reinstalling Windows...

I think it is UNLIKELY you REALLY want to reformat the hard drive in your machine... It may take you days of work and frustration to complelwtely restore the machine after a reeformat of the hard drive.

Yes, simply go to your settings and reformat it as a 120GB Hard-drive, the option should be there

You'll need to remove your hard drive, hook it up to another computer via a USB to Hard Drive adapter and use the operating system of the other computer to reformat the hard drive. This will only reformat the hard drive, not install a new OS. To install a new OS you'll need a DVD-ROM and OS installation disc, or a flash drive with an OS installer on it to install from the flash drive.

you might need to reformat it, it's possible the HDD was damaged as well and might need replacement.

click on the hard drive and use the disc manager to format
or right click on the hard drive properties and use the format tab

Hello. You need to replace the hard drive, or reformat your hard drive with your PC using an external USB connector.