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  • May 11, 2010, 04:28 PM
    sondreyes
    I have a cloned hdd and I don't know how to format it... hope you could help me... tnx
    I have a small computer shop... all hdd are just cloned... now, I don't know how to format one of the cloned hdd... please help me with this because I think that some of the hdd has a bad sector already... and I want to reformat it and install the games manually on it... hope you could help me with this... tnx...
  • May 11, 2010, 05:02 PM
    cdad

    What exactly do you mean by cloned so we are on the same page before I can give an answer? Is this drive in raid config?
  • May 11, 2010, 08:43 PM
    seahwk83

    From question would think you could set the drive as slave and boot PC then use windows explorer to format the drive letter of the slave drive - with a drive with bad sectors, would choose to do a low-level format

    Did not mention though if IDE or SATA drives
  • May 12, 2010, 04:00 AM
    ScottGem

    This is a pretty basic question that I am surprised a computer person would not know. Whether a drive is cloned or not has NO bearing on how to format it. A drive is formatted using the Format command. This means the drive needs to be hooked up to a computer and formatted.
  • May 12, 2010, 03:45 PM
    seahwk83

    I re-read and understand the question as written now, yes above is completely on mark.

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