i assume it's ok to format hdd on one pc and then put it into a different pc?

[tooltime]

unformatted sata 300 gb, will be used for storage. the pc it's going into is gaming at the moment (americas army!) so i have it formatting on another pc; both XP

i assume that's ok?

 

[Tarrant64]

It should be.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

It's fine...I've done it many times....

 

[corkyg]

Absolutamente!

 

[n7]

Do it up! :thumbsup:

It's all good 🙂

 

[resStealth]

i formatted a drive in my six year old compaq and it killed it. later i found out that those older prebuild computer's drives have the diagnostic utilities built in so when you delete the partion it ruins the drive. i dont see how though

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: resStealth
i formatted a drive in my six year old compaq and it killed it. later i found out that those older prebuild computer's drives have the diagnostic utilities built in so when you delete the partion it ruins the drive. i dont see how though

Well, those older (pre-HP merger) Compaqs had a lot of very proprietary stuff in them and were often a pain for actions involving exchange or replacement of components. Sometimes drives like that can be salvaged.

 

[Wolfshanze]

Not only can you format a hard drive on a differant computer, but I've even imaged a fully OS-loaded/MB-specific/hardware-setup-specific HD on a differant computer.

I had one computer without a DVD-burner, but I wanted the image on a DVD, so after getting the HD up and running I stuck it on a computer with a DVD-Burner and used a Norton Ghost floppy boot to image the drive onto DVD (the key is not to boot off a drive that is specific to another computer).

But YES, you can format a drive on a differant computer and then use it in another system.