Can i format my system's c drive?

i have so many data on d and e drives and also i dont want to loss my data.After installing is it requred to run mother board cd. cureently iam using winxp

Can i format my system's c drive?
hello my dear good day





nice to hear that you are going to format you system..


be self dependent and whatever you do, do with confidence. once you maybe wrong but you will get it one day. so dare to do.





let me make you clear that general format mean that formatting all your harddisk and none of your drives will hold data after doing it.


but you may also format your c: drive.. youwill not loose any data on other disks. Many motherboard are compactable with winxp/vista so you might not have to place your motherboard disk after installing the os. further most dont worry check www.drivers.com for downloading your drivers.so you can carry on.





i think that you will again install winxp/vista. i am sending the procedure just go through it.





1. make sure you save all your data from your c drive to other.


2. insert winxp/vista cd. and make a boot from cd.


3. dont repare the old version/windows.


4. just go through new instalation.


5. follow the steps provided there.


6. format the drive c: there and then continue your instilation.





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Reply:Formatting the C drive will not affect anything you have on your other drives. Even if the D and E drives are logical drives on the physical C drive they will not be overwritten.
Reply:may be your operating system files would be installed in this drive.And then also not tru another formatting formats(NTFS or FAT).
Reply:First know where is your windows is install on C,D or E.


If your windows are install in C. Then directly reinstal XP but your all data in the C drive will be deleted. So take backup of your Cdrive In E drive. Then reinstall XP.Yes it is required to install motherboard CD.


Thank you,


Pran
Reply:The best thing you can do to save all that data is to buy and external hard drive with a usb port. they never go bad and never get viruses or anything of the sort just a good physical backup. It's better to have an external because sometimes a restore point on your cpu wont recover and in many of my own cases it doesn't really do that much good creating the restore point
Reply:Yes ,It is possible to format only C: ,but the fact is that u will all the installed Softwares on ur PC ,and u cant back up then..before formatting u make sure that there is no data in "My Document" and on C: ,u just back up them on D:/E: or any Permanent Drive.





Process -%26gt; Right click on C:


U will get a option :Format C: After clicking on it it will start formatting but it will ask for a respective OS Software CD,Sou should keep it with u while Installation.





Or U can format by using Bootable CD or Floppy Drive.
Reply:Use Back Up Option and this will save the data by automatically running the back up and then you can format you pc.
Reply:yaa u can format c drive, restart the system press f6 or f8 (depends on ur mother board)continuously to get boot menu options, then select boot from DOS then enter format c:/ then ur c drive will be formatted completely, that means no data will be present on c drive, after doing so, go to boot (f2 or del button)configuration menu and set boot priority as cd rom, and load ur windows xp cd, and install os again.
Reply:Yes the dos prompt commant is "Format C: /u /c" do not use the FDISK command to remove any partitions. You will probably need to boot the system from you XP install CD, exit the install by pressin the "F3" and starting it with CDROM support enabled. The above format command does an Unconditional format and Checks all Clusters. You will have to re-install the main board drivers CD. Do not even think of doing this unless yo uhave a full backup of all drives. You can lose data and make yourself very sad with this proceedure. please Make sure you have solid and tested backs ups of all data before doing this.
Reply:This should pose no problems. I use a nice little package called Boot IT Next Generation for such work. http://www.pcnet-online.com/picks/bootit...


The site above gives you a run down of the program, along with a download link @TeraByte at the bottom of the page for the free version. When downloaded, run the program to create a system Boot disc, this disc will be your partition pal for life now!


Back up your important files before doing a format, I find manual backup much more reliable. You should make a note of all the files you want to keep, and use a data disc recording program (e.g. Nero) to burn your backup disc/s. Also make sure you have your operating system (Windows etc.) boot disc at hand for re installation.
Reply:yes u can...


yes, mother board cd is required.
Reply:Backup your Data, and use your Windows XP CD to format
Reply:yes u can ,if u format c drive there wont be data loss in the remaining drives it wiill remove the data of c drive only so no need to worry abt n u must require the mother board cd to installal all kind of drivers like audio graphics n network etc .. so mother board cd is must
Reply:using bootable disk you can format the c drive and re install xp. take back up of the d and e

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