[RESOLVED] Formatting a hard drive on a Lenovo 3000
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Formatting a hard drive on a Lenovo 3000

    Lenovo 3000
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    I have formatted hard drives on a desktop many times but never in a laptop. How is that done? Do I need to get a new hard drive? Need more info let me know.

    Thanks.

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    The procedure is the same for laptops.

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    Wow! Thanks for all the info. I guess I was always formatting with adding a hard drive I wanted to format to an existing computer and doing it that way. So I will make a UBCD CD and learn something new.

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    If there is only one drive in your Lenovo 3000, and you are wanting to re-install the original Windows 7, you will need some sort of recovery or installation media to accomplish this.

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    What are you trying to do exactly? If you are reinstalling the OS, you can reformat the drive during installation. Again, this is the same thing you'd do for a desktop.

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    I was given this laptop and it takes a long time for some things to load. Also some of the features don't work like "windows update" and other programs. Some work just fine and others don't. I have Windows seven ultimate 32 and 64 programs. So I would like to install Windows seven 64 bit. The way I would format a hard drive was to put the hard drive I wanted to format in a computer that had a hard drive then format it. This laptop only has one hard drive so I can't do that. I tried the F11 thing and it didn't work. I tried F12 and that didn't work. I tried using the Windows seven program disk and that didn't work. I haven't made a UBCD CD yet since I just got home.

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    Pay close attention steps 6, 7 and 8. I delete the partition, then make it again. Yes the stuff on the partition is gone.
    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ndows-7-a.html

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    I would try the Lenovo factory restore first, as Train mentioned in post #7. That would also install all the drivers. Otherwise, you'd need to search the Lenovo support site and download them BEFORE you reformat the drive.

    The way I would format a hard drive was to put the hard drive I wanted to format in a computer that had a hard drive then format it.
    I don't see why you'd need to do that. You can format the drive during the Windows setup.

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    Pressing F10 should get you to the boot menu when starting up the computer. You should then be able to select an option to boot from the CD/DVD drive.

    Possibly useful link:

    https://restore.solutions/en/ibmlenovo3000n1000768/


    Note: That computer can take a maximum of 2 GB of RAM. If it doesn't already have 2 GB, you may want to consider upgrading to speed it up.

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    Yahoo! I tried many of your suggestions and the computer would freeze before completion of the tasks. I finally got a flash drive to load all the drivers. They would start loading and then stop. But each time the progress bar went a little further until the time it finished. Also, the Windows 7 installation disk would only go so far and then stop. It finally said I had an older version of Windows 7. So I did a clean install of my older version and it seems to be working. I did get SP1.

    So it is a Pentium duel core T4200 @ 2.00 GHz
    RAM 4 GB
    64 bit

    Thank you very much for all the help!

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