just2good4u3434 Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 i have a partition on my hard drive and on the second partition (doesnt have the operating system installed on it) i want to clean out everything on it. i just want a blank hard drive. how would i do this? is just highlighting everything and deletin them safe?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba Bob Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 My Computer > Right Click Your Partition > Format > Leave Everything The Same and Click "OK". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
medab1 Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Just curious about partitions.My computer has C & D drives.D being Fat 32 with recovery stuff on it as supplied by the Emachine people.C is NTFS & what I use.I assume when I type in sfc /scannow anything screwed up will be replaced from "D".It has never asked me to insert the XP CD to recover files.I get along fine with this.Why does one want to add partitions?Is there a benefit to adding one or 2?Is a partition different from a drive (C or D or whatever)?If this is a stupid inquiry or out of place please ignore it.Thank you.********** Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrBill Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Just curious about partitions.My computer has C & D drives.D being Fat 32 with recovery stuff on it as supplied by the Emachine people.C is NTFS & what I use.I assume when I type in sfc /scannow anything screwed up will be replaced from "D".It has never asked me to insert the XP CD to recover files.I get along fine with this.Why does one want to add partitions?Is there a benefit to adding one or 2?Is a partition different from a drive (C or D or whatever)?If this is a stupid inquiry or out of place please ignore it.Thank you.**********<{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is more then likely your recovery stuff on the D drive as this is how most store bought PC's are. Dell and HP do it this way. It is very small compared to the C drive. Leave it alone... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
just2good4u3434 Posted October 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 a partition is like when u have 1 drive and ur pretty much split them into 2. the computer will then recognize them as 2 different hard drives. u can also have multiple operating systems (one on each partition) so u can have linux and windows on one machine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimras Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Older OS's didn't recognize large HD's and therefore, the need to partition. YOur couputer sees each partition as a seperate "drive" and that's why you have a C and a D drive even though you only have one hard drive.If you are running Linux, it's helpful to have a small partition that is formatted FAT32 so that you can transfer files between Linux and Windows. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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