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Zac P
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How to reformat a hard drive in a USB caddy?

I have a old 80GB laptop hard drive i would like to use with a Caddy as a back up drive however when i try to reformat the hard drive from within windows it dosnt let me. Is there a program i can use to wipe and reformat the hard drive within windows or at bios etc?

Update:

the error talks about not being able to format due to read only. I think it might be something to do with the harddrive having portions on the hard drive.....I just need something to completely wipe and remove everything and reformat the whole thing

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    There's a program called wipeinfo.exe that will completely wipe the drive. What error is it giving you when you try to reformat with windows/bios?

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