Need help on fully formating hard drive ?!

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  1. Posts : 30
    Windows 8.1 Professional x64
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    Need help on fully formating hard drive ?!


    Hello guys, my laptop (Lenovo) is runing slow, i dont know for what kind of reason, i had running windows 10 and reinstalled windows 7 but still its going slow , i have beeing installing windows by deleting all its partition and then install windows, but there should be another way to fully format my hard drive, like in first day ?
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  2. Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
       #2

    When you delete all partitions during installation, it cleans all the drive. There is no better way.
    If your laptop is slower than it used to be, can be for many reasons. High CPU temperature or HDD failing are one of them.
    How old is your laptop?
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  3. Posts : 30
    Windows 8.1 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
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    Megahertz07 said:
    When you delete all partitions during installation, it cleans all the drive. There is no better way.
    If your laptop is slower than it used to be, can be for many reasons. High CPU temperature or HDD failing are one of them.
    How old is your laptop?
    CPU Temp is fine, HDD failing may be , you know any program that currectly it checks life of HDD ?!
    What about opening cmd on setup and format fs=ntfs (without quick ) will that help ?
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  4. Posts : 3,784
    win 8 32 bit
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    You go to the makers of the he website they normally have a test for their drives
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  5. Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
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    To find out if your disk is faulty, first make a check disk.
    - If you running Windows, open explorer, right click on drive C:, Properties - Tools - Error check - Schedule disk check.
    - If you use the installation disk, go to repair, command prompt and run chkdsk c: /f
    A good program to see the disk info is CristalDisk /65980/CrystalDiskInfo7_0_3.zip??????? - CrystalDiskInfo - OSDN
    A better command to clean and format disk is diskpart. Very powerful but not easy to use.

    Diskpart
    List disk
    Select disk n (where n is the letter that was given for your HDD in List disk)
    Clean
    Create partition primary align=1024
    Format fs=ntfs quick
    Active (assuming you want to install an OS)
    Exit
    Last edited by Megahertz07; 25 Sep 2016 at 13:43.
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  6. Posts : 30
    Windows 8.1 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Megahertz07 said:
    To find out if your disk is faulty, first make a check disk.
    - If you running Windows, open explorer, right click on drive C:, Properties - Tools - Error check - Schedule disk check.
    - If you use the installation disk, go to repair, command prompt and run chkdsk c: /f
    A good program to see the disk info is CristalDisk /65980/CrystalDiskInfo7_0_3.zip??????? - CrystalDiskInfo - OSDN
    A better command to clean and format disk is diskpart. Very powerful but not easy to use.

    Diskpart
    List disk
    Select disk n (where n is the letter that was given for your HDD in List disk)
    Clean
    Create partition primary align=1024
    Format fs=ntfs quick
    Active (assuming you want to install an OS)
    Exit


    Well thank you , the disk check improved a bit performance,, the crystal disk shows health status good , i have used disk part and before, even with clean all method, idk if that made the disk worst, but may i know what this command : Create partition primary align=1024 (why 1024) ? :)
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  7. Posts : 708
    Windows 7 x64
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    : Create partition primary align=1024 (why 1024) ?
    For SSD mainly to align.
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  8. Posts : 30
    Windows 8.1 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
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    Eric3742 said:
    : Create partition primary align=1024 (why 1024) ?
    For SSD mainly to align.
    hmm, i have a HDD !
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  9. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #9

    Hi,
    Have you fully updated 7 yet ?
    Click Start and type in the search box
    resource monitor
    Open the suggestion and it should open to the Overview section

    See if svchost.exe is absorbing too many resources

    If so see this,
    Windows Update will not update and I've tried multiple fixes

    The install should sort any alignment
    You adding other partitions it's good to at least keep the partitions and C at even gb sizes.
    1024mb = windows 1gb
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  10. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
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    xhemal1325 said:
    Eric3742 said:
    : Create partition primary align=1024 (why 1024) ?
    For SSD mainly to align.
    hmm, i have a HDD !
    Buy a solid state drive.

    And all drives should be aligned, not just ssd`s :)
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