Small Business Computing

Wipe, Don’t Reformat, Your Old Hard Drives

The fact that reformatting a hard drive doesn’t completely erase the data stored on it is both a blessing and a curse depending on your circumstances. For example, if you reformat your hard drive ...
Ars Technica

installing WindowsXP from scratch without reformatting hard drive : advice?

I have an NTFS 200GBs hard drive that is chock full of data which will take me <i>very long</i> to backup and restore. So I was thinking whether I could simply delete the Windows, Program Files and ...
Ars Technica

Creating System Disk using DOS, trying to reformat hard drive

I'm trying to reformat my hard drive (only have one) and it won't let me b/c the os is on the hard drive. I tried creating a start-up disk with Windows XP so that I could boot to DOS and format from a ...
Macworld

DiskStudio partitions drives without reformatting

Micromat Inc., developer of the popular disk repair utility TechTool Pro, on Thursday released DiskStudio, which enables you to partition your hard drive without having to reformat it. Disk Studio can ...
PC World

Can I Reactivate Office Without Losing It?

Kevin Germino wants to know if he can reinstall Microsoft Office onto a reformatted hard drive without losing one of the licenses to use it. I checked with a Microsoft contact (that’s one of the perks ...