reformat but i get error with disk space HELP!

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Jimmybeam

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i have ample amount of disk space but i get some x8070080 error or something. i tried to find the error in event viewer but i cannot find the exact error code. it said i do not have disk space to use my hp vista recovery cd or upgrade to windows 7, and this hp elitebook 6930p is next to impossible to reformat it seems, i am having alot of trouble with this and im usually good at doing these things myself but apparently not this time, my hard drives show 0kb and im getting that space error and i cannot do anything with this machine, is there any way, like xp where i can go into bios and just reformat?? the bios on this does not offer anything, that i can see any way. and i cannot boot from my cds i have to do it from my desktop, one of these cds gives me the option to reformat, but i have to have at least 7 gigs free to go forward with the reformat. but since my drives bounces from 500mb to 0kb i cant do anything. i would appreciate any help cause this thing may meet dumpster soon. ha, thank you for your help and time, hope i can get this resolved.
Jim
 
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Hello Jimmybeam, welcome to Vista Forums!



Be Advised: doing this WILL remove all the date on whatever drive (HDD) you do it to.


Boot into Safe Mode then choose the command prompt option, once in the command window type these commands ...

diskpart <enter> after each command

selcect disk # (of the HDD you want to format, it can be found in disk management)

clean all <enter>

The last time I did this to a 500GB HDD it took over 2 hours to complete; this writes zeroes to the entire HDD and all the data will be un-recoverable once it completes.

If I wanted to do "disk 0" this is what it should look like, then hit enter, the second snip is what you get when it finishes.
click this inage to enlarge
Disk Part.JPGdisk part2.JPG
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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    * BFK Customs *
    CPU
    Intel C2Q 9550 Yorkfield
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5Q Pro
    Memory
    8GB Dominator 8500C5D
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX ATI 1GB 4870 XXX
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD 7-1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1x 47" LCD HDMI & 2x 26" LCD HDMI
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080P & 1920x1200
    Hard Drives
    2x 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache WD Caviar Black
    PSU
    Corsair 620HX
    Case
    CM Cosmos RC-1000
    Cooling
    Tuniq Tower 120, 2x 140mm and 3x 120mm case fans
    Keyboard
    HP Enhansed Multimedia
    Mouse
    Razer Diamondback 3G
    Internet Speed
    18.6Mb/s
    Other Info
    My First Build ;)
Thank you for the feed back, this is very very relieving, but where can I find disk management?? And when I put it in do I put it in as "#0" or just a number
 

My Computer

System One

Nevermind I have it but once I typed clean all it says" the selected disk is neccessary to the operation of your computer, and may not be cleaned
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    * BFK Customs *
    CPU
    Intel C2Q 9550 Yorkfield
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5Q Pro
    Memory
    8GB Dominator 8500C5D
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX ATI 1GB 4870 XXX
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD 7-1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1x 47" LCD HDMI & 2x 26" LCD HDMI
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080P & 1920x1200
    Hard Drives
    2x 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache WD Caviar Black
    PSU
    Corsair 620HX
    Case
    CM Cosmos RC-1000
    Cooling
    Tuniq Tower 120, 2x 140mm and 3x 120mm case fans
    Keyboard
    HP Enhansed Multimedia
    Mouse
    Razer Diamondback 3G
    Internet Speed
    18.6Mb/s
    Other Info
    My First Build ;)
Good tutorial, but with this elitebook hp has funky bios and the boot menu does display orders or what runs first or second, but has no CD or DVD boot option, so I cannot figure out how to boot off my old hp vista disk or my new windows 7 disk without running it straight from my desktop
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    * BFK Customs *
    CPU
    Intel C2Q 9550 Yorkfield
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5Q Pro
    Memory
    8GB Dominator 8500C5D
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX ATI 1GB 4870 XXX
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD 7-1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1x 47" LCD HDMI & 2x 26" LCD HDMI
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080P & 1920x1200
    Hard Drives
    2x 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache WD Caviar Black
    PSU
    Corsair 620HX
    Case
    CM Cosmos RC-1000
    Cooling
    Tuniq Tower 120, 2x 140mm and 3x 120mm case fans
    Keyboard
    HP Enhansed Multimedia
    Mouse
    Razer Diamondback 3G
    Internet Speed
    18.6Mb/s
    Other Info
    My First Build ;)
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