It's usually a bad mistake. It's my belief that this mistaken notion stems from the technical support people at many of the larger OEMs. Their solution to almost any problem they don't quickly know the answer to is "reformat and reinstall. It gets you off the phone quickly, it almost always works, and it doesn't require them to do any real troubleshooting a skill that most of them obviously don't possess in any great degree. But it leaves you with all the work and all the problems.
You have to restore all your data backups, you have to reinstall all your programs, you have to reinstall all the Windows and application updates, you have to locate and install all the needed drivers for your system, you have to recustomize Windows and all your apps to work the way you're comfortable with.
Besides all those things being time-consuming and troublesome, you may have trouble with some of them: do you have or can you find all the drivers you need? Can you find all the needed installation codes? Do you have data backups to restore? Do you even remember all the customizations and tweaks you may have installed to make everything work the way you like? Occasionally there are problems that are so difficult to solve that Windows should be reinstalled cleanly.
But they are few and far between; reinstallation should not be a substitute for troubleshooting; it should be a last resort, to be done only after all other attempts at troubleshooting by a qualified person have failed. And perhaps most important: if you reformat and reinstall without finding out what caused your problem, you will very likely repeat the behavior that caused it, and quickly find yourself back in exactly the same situation.
I mean that seriously. I do fall into the theme that you were discussing where you stated: " And perhaps most important: if you reformat and reinstall without finding out what caused your problem, you will very likely repeat the behavior that caused it, and quickly find yourself back in exactly the same situation.
I know that I must be repeating a behavior that will more than likely put me back in the same situation and I would like to avoid that. I would like to find out what exactly it is that I am doing wrong. My reason for contemplating a reformat is because when I tried to do a restore, it kept failing and then I got a suggestion to attempt a Restore in the Safe Mode so I tried that and then I was asked for a password!
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A secondary drive mentioned here is the disk or partition which is not bootable and is not related to system partition. The function of a secondary drive is to store data instead of installing operating system. If there are two or more disks on your computer, those disks except for system disk are regarded as secondary disks.
Thus, a secondary disk can also be an external hard drive, USB flash drive or memory card. In this guide, we provide 3 methods to reformat a non-system hard drive: Disk Management, DiskGenius and DiskPart commands.
Method 1: Reformat hard drive in Windows 10 Disk Management. Step 1. Connect the hard drive to be formatted to your computer and open Disk Management. There can be a number of ways to open Disk Management depending on the Windows version.
One easy way to launch Disk Management from Windows 10 computer is right-clicking Start button and choosing Disk Management. After Disk Management shows up, you can find the disk to be formatted. Step 2. Right-click on the disk you want to reformat and choose Format option from the context menu.
Note: you should make sure you are going to format the correct disk; otherwise you will face data loss issue. In Disk Management, you cannot format C drive or the partition where Windows is installed. To format a system disk or volume, move to Guide 2. Step 3. Set volume label, file system type, allocation unit size and click OK button. Step 4. Click OK to the warning message about formatting and the drive will be formatted right away.
Note: Formatting this volume will erase all data on it. Backup any data you want to keep before formatting. DiskGenius is free disk partition software and it can reformat hard drive easily and quickly. Apart from formatting hard drive, it is capable of permanently wiping a hard drive and other storage devices, so that files can never be recovered by any methods. In this part, we are going to use DiskGenius to reformat a disk and here is the quick formatting guide.
Install and launch DiskGenius from your computer. Select the disk to be formatted and click Format button from toolbar. Select file system type and click Format button. You can set a name on your own or leave it blank to let Windows name it. Click OK on the pop-up message box and DiskGenius starts to format the drive. Method 3: Reformat hard drive via DiskPart Command. In this section, we explain how you can format a hard disk using Diskpart commands. If you are novice user and not familiar with these commands, you can try previous methods to complete formatting task.
In Windows PowerShell, type diskpart and hit Enter key. Type following command one by one and press Enter key after each command. Create partition primary This command will create a primary partition on the disk to be formatted.
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