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A hard drive is the brain of a computer. However, over time, that brain can become overworked and overly saturated with old software and outdated information. It becomes clogged and needs a fresh start. By erasing a hard drive, you can give your PC that fresh new beginning. With a few steps you can erase your hard drive manually, without the aid of expensive software.

Make sure your data is protected before you proceed. Whatever you do not save will be lost once you erase the drive. Use a CD or jumpdrive to save your information. Boot with a system disk. Before you continue to erase the hard drive, use the system to create a system disk. Use a 3-1/2 inch floppy disk and format it with the command "format a: /s"; this will create a bootable disk that contains system commands. Place it in the drive of your system and turn it off, then back on. Reformat the hard drive. Once you've booted with the system disk, type "format c: /s"; this will reformat the hard disk, virtually destroying the old hard drive you used to know. Depending on the of the drive, the formatting may take a fairly long time. Once the formatting is over, use the command "fdisk" to create partitions (which are logical sections for your hard drive's storage). Given the newer hard drives and operating systems of today, you can fdisk the drive and use all of the space. or if you dont have a floppy drive Download a disk wiping utility, such as Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) or KillDisk. DBAN is an open-source product, while KillDisk is available as a free, closed-source download. http://www.dban.org/ http://www.killdisk.com/ Once you download the file, save it to your computer somewhere easy to remember. Insert a blank CD into your computer and use a CD writing program to burn the hard disk wipe utility to the blank CD. If you are using Windows Vista or 7, there is a built-in utility that will perform this task. Back up the data on your computer that you want to save, if necessary. Insert the CD that you created into the computer that is attached to the hard drive you wish to erase. Power on the computer and choose the setup option to boot from the CD. Once you have booted from the CD, you will enter into the hard disk wipe utility. Depending on which utility you chose to use, this screen will vary, but the choice you want to select is to erase or wipe a disk drive. Choose the hard disk that you wish to wipe and confirm that you wish to permanently erase the data on it. Before confirming this, you may wish to physically double check and ensure that you are erasing the correct drive. Once you start the erasing process, it cannot be halted, paused or reversed. You will have to wait for anywhere from a few hours to even a few days for the process to complete, depending on how large your hard drive is.

Hope this helps.

People often feel panic when I see this. If I format the drive, will I lose all my data? If not, how could I get access to my files?

My take is that you may have to format the drive and then use data recovery software to recover your files.
http://www.asoftech.com/articles/recover-deleted-files-after-format.html
Here's some information about file recovery, think you need to take a look, very useful

I had succeed to recover files from crashed hard drive with Asoftech Data Recovery program. It can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look for lost data due to drives crash, physical damage,system sabotage, etc.You can download it and scan your hard drive for free to preview whether your files can be recovered
http://www.asoftech.com/articles/free-data-recovery-download.html

Your WD HDD have been attacted by viruses for your computer or outside computer where you used it last. Make sure that you have an up to date antivirus software, scan your computer or the external hard drive, explore your computer, go to tools - folder options under view files & folders select show hidden files and folders apply and ok it.

Use this file recovery program: http://www.asoftech.com/adr/
You can find it in magazines or on a internet...
It is a simple, fast program which thorough scan the computer, which allows you to recover lost files
Do not use the machines to save more files before you have recovered or is likely to override the old and losing it all ....

you need rely on professional file recovery tool to get them back. A popular one is asoftech data recovery program. This tool can deep scan your the computer and recover your lost files back without requiring extra skills. Here is the steps might be helpful to you:
1. Download this program on your compute. here is the link: http://www.asoftech.com/adr/
2. Install and start the program.
3. select the drive where your lost files located, click 'Next'. Now the scanning process will start to search the deleted files. After a while you will then get a list of recoverable files.
4. Press Recover to perform full recovery.

Hello invest_greec
Connect it to another computer and use Free Recuva works fine : http://download.cnet.com/Recuva/3000-2242_4-10753287.html
Do not try to recover all at once but each category at a time , documents , pictures , music ...etc...
If it fails , try this one . It's not free but very efficient : Tenorshare Data Recovery. It can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look for lost data due to unwanted erasing , system sabotage, virus corrupted partitions,drives crash, physical damage,ect.. http://www.any-data-recovery.com/product/index.htm
If you still don't have success , you will have to go to a recovery office but let's hope not because it will cost you a lot of money .

The simplest solution would be to reinstall your operating system.
1) Save all your documents/files/pictures off to a portable drive (USB flash, External Hard Drive, etc) 1) a) See step 4 and then come back here. 1) b) Save drivers on to another device.
2) Insert and boot to the CD/DVD that came with your computer and follow the prompts to reinstall Windows XP Home. 3) When prompted reformat your HD (WARNING THIS WILL ERASE ALL THE CONTENTS OF YOUR DRIVE), please make sure you copied your stuff onto a separate device and brought it to another computer to check that it is there before you reformat.
4) You may need certain drivers (software that allows parts of the computer to run like your sound, and/or video) if you don't have access to a computer attached to the internet got to step one before you erase your Hard Drive and download all relevant drivers from your computer's manufacturer. Examples are support.dell.com. or www.hp.com/support.
5) When your computer OS has been reinstalled, don't forget to reinstall your antivirus software, your printer, and what ever else you use.
6) When everything else has failed, it may be hardware related. You'll spend more money bringing this old computer to a repair shop than you will buying a new computer at walmart or staples.

ok, you could try this out, i do this all the time....

remove the hard drive and install it in an external hard drive casing. you will need another computer that has an up to date virus software to connect this hard drive (through USB) to. scan this hard drive using the second computer, it will definitely remove the virus. Once you are done remove your hard drive from the casing and put it back in your laptop. this should fix your virus problem.

and get yourself a good anti virus software. if you don't know what to get, drop me an email, i will give you advise on what to buy, so to save you money and give you protection.

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