Format a HD

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  1. Dogz
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    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
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    Format a HD


    Hello everyone,
    I pulled an 80 gig hard drive outof an old server. So I boot the computer up and it reads everything fine so I open computer and it said it only had 1 gigabyte free so my question is can you format the drive without opening up setup.
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  3. Petey7
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    Can you format it from within explorer? You should be able to right click the drive and pick format.
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  4. Dogz
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    I am not home at the moment but I will try it
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  6. Dogz
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    Big problem Windows is reading only 7g gigs can anyone help?
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  7. Little Darwin
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    Did the drive have a recovery partition? What does Disk Manager say?

    That seems like about the right size for a recovery partition.
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  8. karlsnooks
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    Dogz said:
    Big problem Windows is reading only 7g gigs can anyone help?
    To many "its" for me.

    Help me out here. Precisely who, what, when, where.

    I would make some suggestions but I'm confused.
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  10. Dogz
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    Nevermind I got it.
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  11. Petey7
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    How did you you get it??
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  12. Dogz
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    Disk managment.
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  13. Petey7
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    Okay. I was hoping you could describe exactly what you did for other people that come along with the same problem.
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