Formatting your hard drive is very useful. It’s good for clearing everything off a secondary drive or when installing a new copy of Windows. Formatting is also good for cleaning up storage issues, ...
I am working on an older <B>Compaq Presario 7478</B>. It is an AMD K6-2 533 on 97 MHz BUS. I have upgraded the RAM to 512 MB using 2 sticks of PC133 low-density SDRam ...
I'm changing a HDD on a Compaq machine (from the original 30GB to a used 160GB Barracuda) and during the XP setup phase, it's taking an unusually long time to perform an HD format (not quick format) ...