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		<title>How does hard drive formatting work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ineedhelp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: How does hard drive formatting work? Specifically, if I were to purchase a raw internal drive, format it for my older WinXP system, and use it as a storage drive, could it later be transferred to my Win7 system with the data still on it?]]></description>
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		<title>How come it takes days to unformat my hard drives?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: I have a EIDE drive that is being used as a secondary drive. My question is that recently I had a main hard drive failure. I used the manufacturer&#8217;s recovery kit and restored the system but instead of just formatting my main hard drive it formatted my secondary hard drive too. I have tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it possible to reformat a 16GB SD memory stick as 16GB after formatting it as 8GB?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: I formatted my 16GB SD memory stick as 8GB because I needed to use it in my camera which supported only 8GB. Is it possible to restore its original size?]]></description>
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		<title>How do I get my ethernet card working after a reformat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boggei</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: My husband formatted the hard drive on our desktop and now it won&#8217;t find the Ethernet card. The drivers are on the CD and it wont accept them. I don&#8217;t have Internet access from that computer but do have access from another. What do I do?]]></description>
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		<title>Misconceptions about formatting your hard drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Can I format my hard drive without loosing my operating system and data? A: Some people truly don&#8217;t understand what it means to format a hard drive so I would like to take this opportunity to make sure we cover all the bases when it comes to formatting a hard drive. Some reasons people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I reformat my Dell computer?</title>
		<link>http://www.askageek.com/2009/08/29/how-do-i-reformat-my-dell-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How do I reformat my computer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: I need to reformat my computer and make it fresh and new. My computer is gateway 832GM. How do I reformat it?]]></description>
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		<title>Can I format my hard drive without loosing Windows XP?</title>
		<link>http://www.askageek.com/2009/01/10/can-i-format-my-hard-drive-without-loosing-windows-xp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gortie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Erasing Data Off A Hard Drive From Another Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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