Hard Drive on iPhone? How to delete it..and a few other questions

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Hard Drive on iPhone? How to delete it..and a few other questions

Hello!

I'm a fairly new iPhone user so I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question. Is there a hard drive on my iPhone? If so, how can I delete the info on it? Will it delete my contacts and things like that? How do I do it?

Thanks so much!

I have the iPhone 4 version 4.2.1

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jan 27, 2011 1:39 PM

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tonefox

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Jan 27, 2011 1:43 PM in response to musicalmom96

There is no hard drive. The user manual is bookmarked within the phone's Safari, or you can download it:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf

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Jan 27, 2011 1:44 PM in response to musicalmom96

The iPhone does not have a hard drive. It has a flash drive or flash storage.

If you wipe the entire flash drive, everything will be deleted except for the firmware/OS and all included apps.

You can erase all content and settings direct on the iPhone at Settings > General > Reset, which is a secure erase, or you can restore your iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from your iPhone's backup which is not a secure erase of all data and settings.

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musicalmom96 Author

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Jan 27, 2011 2:11 PM in response to musicalmom96

Thank you!!

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