Formatting basically wipes the HDD clean, you can do this by inserting the vista disk. a screen will appear such as this (eventually):
there you can format the disks. Right now it sounds like you'll want to do a full format (so if given an option to do a quick format, don't do a quick...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-002-_-Product
I use this to connect laptop (and other) HDDs to my pc. Plug it in, PnP recognizes the HDD(s) an autoplay screen usually appears to view files/folders. Just copy that info to your desktop, burn it to a cd, do what you want but there all...
1. change the SSID of the network
2. make a rediculously complex password
3. dissable broadcasting (given your router/switch supports this)
4. enable mac filtering (given your router/switch supports this)
Hope my first post on anandtech helps 8P
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