How do I wipe a NTFS hard drive file system?
By monsooner
@monsooner (467)
India
January 19, 2007 8:32am CST
I need to wipe my whole hard drive clean as can be. My whole system is corrupted and I need to start over from scratch.
2 responses
@livingtwist (410)
• United States
19 Jan 07
If you have the Windows NT or XP orginal disk this will be easy. Untilities included on them can format and create new NTFS partitions. You can not use a DOS disk to do this. NTFS is not DOS based but you can use third party software like Partition Magic.
You can issue the following command at command prompt from run.
C:\FORMAT /fs:ntsf
it will wipe the disk
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@farhannkaskar (59)
• India
19 Jan 07
the command u gave is write ....but what if the OS is to be formated
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@farhannkaskar (59)
• India
19 Jan 07
The better option is partition magic ....... use it to wipe out ur desired drive. take a fresh copy of OS and install it ..
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