Hard drive wipping

Whats the easiest way to wipe a hard drive as i have a few i want to use as slave drives in my pc.

 

install it in your PC, go to my computer right click the drive to be formated and select "format"

Almost sounds too east doesn't it lol

or from a command prompt, typ format (drive leter): and enter. Just make sure you have the right drive. normally you DON"T want to format c: lol

 

how do you wipe C? i need to reinstall to a different version of windows

 

when you install the new version it should reformat the C:\ drive

 

are you going to get rid of it? if so smack it a few times with a hammer, if not you put in your windows disk and when u reboot the computer you wanna go into settings change the boot settings to boot from cd, it will then boot from CD and you just follow the indtuctions to reformat and partition. =]

 

hmm, is there anyway to create your own XP CD?

what will happen if i right click my C drive, and select format?

 

It won't work.... you can try it :maha:
(I'm serious, you try it without any fear)

 

oh my! why doesn't it work? that option is spoilt?

so, how am i able to format my computer without my XP CD? =/

 

u need to get in to the bios to reformat it, but if you do you wont have an operating system so u wont be able to do ANYTHING inless you know how to work through bios

 

best and cleanest way I know how is to going threw fdisk on the command prompt. Normally I toss in my Win98 Se. Then get to a command prompt that way type fdisk and go to follow the steps there.

 

Don't listen to the poeple in the above posts. Their idiots.

Their are millions of programs on the internet just designed for reformatting.
Get a floppy disk, download fdisk. Boot from the floppy disk and format. It's easy and takes 2 minutes.

No floppy disk? Burn it on a cd and boot from cd.
Hell, don't like fdisk? Downlaod parition magic.

It's easy as shit to do.

Don't reformat C: if you don't have another OS disk though.. No OS on the the hard drive means it's not gona boot