Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 23:02:55 -0500 From: PcGAmeR22 Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: How to format this hard drive Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 07:59:15 -0500 Message-ID: Organization: NNTPGW User-Agent: vBulletin USENET gateway X-Newsreader: vBulletin USENET gateway X-Originating-IP: 65.51.227.30 Lines: 16 X-Trace: sv3-mjAMjTMacOSKcbuHvrig7Exmnxh0AvlOIIdghAeHUVIn9m7DH3stCfbouMUGG31Op4T1/8uvH5aIIu9!JT+mG6fHTXMIubN1FuN78gZUJB+P3fTpPPV2SEQDFZSSzSpMLzOfIdubwnjvMn0Wifk= X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Lines: 7 X-Original-Bytes: 1569 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.laptops:1402 Hello everybody I have a 640 gb hard drive that has windows 7 pro 64 bit , It has a lot of viruses on it plus files i dont really need , The thing is i sold the pieces of the original computer it was in and i have only the hard drive left and i would like to erase everything on it and install windows 7 again however at the mean time i dont have a desktop pc , I sent it to my friend in the computer store for upgrades and im not going there soon either I have a lenovo g550 laptop , Can i connect the hard drive to the laptop and format it from there ? if possible then how do i do it Cheers Mike :D