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2. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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   Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves three different processes. [e]Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the disks with markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sector markers) and other information like block CRC to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk ...

3. Installation (computer programs) - Wikipedia

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   A clean installation is one that is done in the absence of any interfering elements such as old versions of the computer program being installed or leftovers from a previous installation. In particular, the clean installation of an operating system is an installation in which the target disk partition is erased before installation. Since the ...

4. Disk Cleanup - Wikipedia

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   In addition to the categories that appear on the Disk Cleanup tab, the More Options tab offers additional options for freeing up hard drive space through removal of optional Windows components, installed programs, and all but the most recent System Restore point or Shadow Copy data in some versions of Microsoft Windows.

5. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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   The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC.

6. FIPS (computer program) - Wikipedia

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   FIPS (First nondestructive Interactive Partition Splitter) [1] - is an MS-DOS program for non-destructive splitting of File Allocation Table (FAT) hard disk partitions. Splitting partitions is an alternative to deleting the partitions and creating new ones using software such as fdisk , the advantage of which is that the data is not lost.

7. Beta - Projects Desktop Windows - AOL

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   Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 266 MHz or faster computer processor 1024 x 768 or higher screen resolution recommended 1 GB RAM, 512 MB free hard disk space Internet connection