i am looking for a gud formatting software and i would like a fast acting one as i dont like windows one please help by telling me some names thanks
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what is a gud formatting software??
Why do you need to format... WesternDigital and Seagate (to my knowledge) both offer drive specific reformatting software. You can also do the formatting when/if you installed linux... if you don't like windows 
Why you doesn't like the Windows one? please be more specific, else we cannot help you!
Format what kind of disk and for what purpose?
Format what kind of disk and for what purpose?
I think he means "defragmenting software", and that he doesn't like the one that ships with Windows... If your question is like I understood, the only one I know of is O&O.
To format a hard drive u can just use the dos command format :[drive letter]
Softwares like PartionMagic help in repationing the hard drives without loss of data.
Softwares like PartionMagic help in repationing the hard drives without loss of data.
NO i mean FORMAT and i have an NTFS 40gb drive and i would like to format one as i have two of them but the windows formatting software doesnt format it to my liking as it sometimes believe it or not leaves files behind and as for defragmenting thanks for the reference but i allready use O&O as they are great and have been doing so for ages now. anyway if you need more info please ask.
thanks for your replies.
thanks for your replies.
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| NO i mean FORMAT and i have an NTFS 40gb drive and i would like to format one as i have two of them but the windows formatting software doesnt format it to my liking as it sometimes believe it or not leaves files behind and as for defragmenting thanks for the reference but i allready use O&O as they are great and have been doing so for ages now. anyway if you need more info please ask.
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Windows format does not leave files behind any more than any other format program, unless you are doing a quick format. Also, you can format a drive up to 10 or more imes and data recovery software will still pick up data left behind.
Do a normal format, not a quick one..but if you want the data left to be invisible to even data recovery software, you will need to low level format the drive then high level format the drive 10-12 times.
There is no such thing as a 'magic format tool' that gets rid of everything in one pass.
Try Partition magic 8. It wll help.
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| Do a normal format, not a quick one..but if you want the data left to be invisible to even data recovery software, you will need to low level format the drive then high level format the drive 10-12 times. |
how do you do low level formating as when i use windows all i see is quick format and just format ??
thanks for your help.
Partition magic 8 is not to do with formatting but anyway thanks .
And I thought You were talking about Word Formating.
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For a low level format you can usually get a utility from the hard drive makers website. Be careful though if your drive came from an OEM computer, as a low level format may destroy any data that the oem wants on there, like a recovery partition for instance.
After doing a low level format, you still need to do a regular format to prepare the drive to accept data.
After doing a low level format, you still need to do a regular format to prepare the drive to accept data.
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