Will formatting a hard drive get rid of my BIOS?
no, next.
go back to /b/
no but it will install gentoo
>>51981579
Do I need special permissions to format?
I already have administrator settings
>>51981614
You're all ready admin. You have all privileges. If you want to reformat, reformat. It won't even touch your BIOS.
>>51981645
But it's unclickable grey in the image
you can't format the drive windows is running off you silly willy
boot a live GNU+Linux stick
>>51981665
holy shit you're fucking stupid. /g/ is not tech support
Here let me share a quick tip with you. If you want to format quickly all you have to do is delete the folder located in C:\Windows\System32
Once you delete the System32 folder you can restart and you'll be freshly formatted. It's a much quicker way to do it and it's grayed out in the menu because that tool is just meant to show you all your drives in an easy to view table
>>51981821
This is the answer OP, I've done this in the past and it works very well
>>51981573
dumbass
>>51981614
may it be because you have your fucking os in that drive?
>>51981573
you can't format the drive your windows is installed on while it's running...
use a windows disc or some linux live cd
>>51981579
Dude you're just going to let this poor guy format his BIOS?
I thought /g/ was supposed to be full of nice virgin techies. That's harsh, man.
>>51981573
Dude never format anything, it will fuck up your computer beyond repair, trust me. I fell for this once and had to buy a whole new mack book pro.
>>51981573
If your HTML firewall is able to remove the blockchain that is coming through your backdoor SATA port, then you should be fine.
