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Is Re-formatting A Hard Drive Still The Way To Clean Off A Hard Drive?

Dell Demension 4400 had problems and would not operate- would freeze up. We had data recovered from hard drive so we could reformat.
On older computers we used to re-format to get rid of problems.
BTW- the error message I get is error loading C:/windows system 32\bridge.32dll
But now- I can figure out how to format. I have the start-up cd.
Can anyone give me instructions?

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This entry was posted on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 10:54 pm and is filed under Computers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Responses to “Is Re-formatting A Hard Drive Still The Way To Clean Off A Hard Drive?”

  1. It will reformat itself when you reinstall windows

  2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/g…http://www.ehow.com/how_6026_format-hard…

  3. yes simply insert the cd turn off computer turn it back on with the cd still inside and select to format with cd and follow the instructions..simple as that =]

  4. The reformat is self automated. As long as your CD-drive is set up to boot first in your bios, you will be fine.

  5. ya