I've been using my current Maxtor 80GB 7200 RPM hard drive for some tiem now adn i've reformatted and reinstalled stuff on it countless of times already. But i suspect that my hard drive is geting really messed up. How can i do a real, complete clean up of my hard drive? Like totally scrub it back to its original state?
how to really clean up my hard drive?
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technoman2
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well, if you format it hat should be ok, to remove every trace you need to format about 3-4 times in a row
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Mr. Muscle cleans stuff pretty well.
But yeah; a few formats back to back. Not Quick Formats and it will be practically clean. I think its 7 to 8 for Military Clean? Something like that.
But yeah; a few formats back to back. Not Quick Formats and it will be practically clean. I think its 7 to 8 for Military Clean? Something like that.
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Lord Kalthorn said:
lol
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windex works just make sure it doesnt get near the platter
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Check out his link on the maxtor website for a hard disk utility which resets the entire drive with zero's
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...tware Downloads/ATA Hard Drives&downloadID=22
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...tware Downloads/ATA Hard Drives&downloadID=22
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