The fact that reformatting a hard drive doesn’t completely erase the data stored on it is both a blessing and a curse depending on your circumstances. For example, if you reformat your hard drive ...

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.

I reformatted my win2k installation yesterday night. Installed updates and drivers and then powered down to reattach my other hard drives. Powered up and imported in the drives in Administrative Tools ...

The solution apparently is to either write zeroes and low-level format the drive or reset the MBR.<BR><BR>Problem is, how do I do this? The Western Digital utility in Windows can't write zeroes to the ...