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If I click format my hard drives will that erase everything on them?

maddogco032001 asked:


Planning on getting a new desktop & don’t want any information left on my current machine.

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5 Responses to “If I click format my hard drives will that erase everything on them?”

  1. Yes, It could if you answer yes at the prompts…. Why would you?

  2. YES IT WILL!!!!!!

    hope this helps!!

  3. Formatting is the act of creating a file system on a volume, so that the operating system can store and retrieve data on that volume. When a drive is formatted, all data is ‘erased’. Make sure that is what you want to do before you perform a disk format.

  4. geek-in-training on December 15th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    The quick and easy answer is: YES
    If there is only one drive in the computer, it can not erase itself and therefore reformat. You can only format or erase secondary (slave) drives.
    Try this link for further info:

  5. yes it will

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