The best way is to unpartition it and repartition it to the file system you want, then format it. Of course you will completely erase anything on it. Rick Salah wrote: > Hello Guys! > how to format a 80GB hard drive ..... the drive is not new and it is > already NTFS formated ...... > Regards, > Salah. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads