What will happen if I reformat my hard disk?

Here's a list of off the recent problems i've been having with my computer: -My wireless signal is there but when I click on internet explorer the screen is blank. -My sound went out. Something about the driver, but I managed to fix that. -Recovery WILL...

I bought my external hard disk Hitachi ST/500GB-APAC few months ago. I notice after i installs Kaspersky 2012, there is one time a window comes out ask me to fix some error in that hard disk. I click yes at that time. After that, i cannot access to the...

and that worked just great...only it did something to the other partition which has caused it not to mount, to refer to itself as disk3s5.It refuses to mount and if I click "verify disk" it says the disk needs to be repaired and to click repair...

i want to know ,if i reformat it,which of my hard disk will be gone? what i mean is in our computer there ussualy have 3 right..one for cd's,one local disk C n local disk D...which one will be reformat?

I can't find my recovery disk and I need to reformat my computer (it has a keylogger). If I can't reformat it without the disk, can I download the recovery disk from somewhere? It's an XP, not a Vista.

My friend gave me this computer and did not have a reformat disk. I was using easy cap and trying to record a video to get sound and all of a sudden it just lost sound on my whole computer when I restarted. I tried downloading stuff and deleting but...

My computer was infected with a virus and need to reformat. problem is...I don't have the disk to do so... It didn't come with a disk when I purchased it. Know anywhere I can get a disk that won't cost very much?

My disk drive doesn't work and I want to delete the contents of my computer (not this one). How can I do this without having use of the disk drive?

i cant copy files in my usb or even reformat it, it says that it is write protected. There is no switch in my usb where i can turn on/off the write protection. How can i remove this write protected?