hard drive data process help?

Read these >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_extensions

http://www.computerhope.com/dosext.htm

http://filext.com/

The only thing you need to do is format the hard drive for use - this is usually done by the operating system without need for third party software.

In years gone by, with DOS based systems, you used to have to 'mount' the drive volume once formatted, but this is now integrated with the format process.

You could boot from an old version of MS-DOS from a floppy. Then you'd need "fdisk.exe" to create a valid partition and "format.com" to prepare that partition.

Seriously, you can do it with about 4 or 5 files in total.

1) the data must be converted to the format of the hard disk. ntfs, fat, fat32, and linux formats

2) the data must be fed to a buffer, for prep to be written to the disk