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Working with drives

Working with drives

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Working with drives

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- You can do some absolutely terrifyingly powerful things to hard drives from a command line interface, and in this episode I'm going to scare the bejenkins out of you, because we've got some really cool tools. The first one I want to talk about is probably the easiest, and that's good old format. So if you take a look up on the screen here, if you look on the right-hand side, I've got disc management running and you'll see I've got a drive put in here, and I've got it set up as the E drive. It's not formatted. I've gone ahead and partitioned it as one big E drive, but I have to format it. Over here, I've got a command prompt open, notice that I'm running as administrator 'cause this format command won't do this unless you are as an administrator. So I'm going to type in "format," and then the drive that I want to format, and now I want to do the file system. So you know what, I don't remember how to do that. So…

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