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 · Reformatted Computer - Lost All Drivers - Nothing Works - posted in Windows XP Home and Professional: Hello Everyone,First I just want to say this is quite the forum, I Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Step 1. Restart your computer and press F2 or Del until you enter BIOS. Step 2. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to choose "Integrated Peripherals" and hit "Enter". Step 3. Use the arrow keys to select "USB Controller". If it is disabled, change the option to "Enabled". Step 4. Save and exit. This workaround involves using a disk sector editor to modify the media descriptor byte on the floppy disk. Misuse of a disk sector editor may make all the data on the drive or volume permanently inaccessible. Disk sector editors function at a level "below" the file system, so the typical checks for maintaining disk consistency do not apply.

Step 1. Restart your computer and press F2 or Del until you enter BIOS. Step 2. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to choose "Integrated Peripherals" and hit "Enter". Step 3. Use the arrow keys to select "USB Controller". If it is disabled, change the option to "Enabled". Step 4. Save and exit. Follow the below steps: Step 1. Go to the Start menu and select SettingsUpdate Security. Step 2. Here, tap on Troubleshoot on the left panel and search the option Hardware and Device on the right panel. After Step 3. A window will now pop up to analyze all the hardware issues. Hereafter this. Command prompt will format any drive (HDD, SSD, USB, and SD card) with complete authority. Here is the guide to force format with cmd when Windows cannot format hard drive conventionally. Enter cmd prompt in the search bar of the taskbar and run it as an administrator.

If you did not, your computer may have a restore partition set up. This means you will need to employ a different method. 3. Insert the operating system disk. External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not detected in Windows. The drive is displayed. Windows setup with a list of drives. Click Format to format the drive, and then click Next to start the Windows installation.