Reformat Hard Drive / Cant Do A System Restore
Jul 5, 2005
I have an 8 month old Dell xp system and have just caught something nasty. I cant do a sytem restore, dl/run any software tools, and its so slow that the system is pretty much useless. Dell says that they think it is spyware and they can fix me right up for just $49.95. I think I have everything I need backed up, so I was thinking about wiping my hard drive and starting over for free. Could someone walk me through it? Then, could someone point me in the right direction to keep this from happening again.
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Nov 8, 2006
how to reformat my hard drive and re-install the operating system.
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Nov 17, 2008
I want to reload XP PRO, clean the haed drive and give him a fresh start, yet it tells me that I have an earlier version and will not let me install it. It says to reboot and start using my XP Pro and it still does not work. I have checked the BIOS and everything is right in it, i.e boot from CD. I for the life of me cannot format this drive so I can reload a fresh copy of XP PRO and all the updates, and then some other programs. I am pulling my hair out over this. What am I missing that I cannot format and start over,
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Mar 8, 2005
I have an HP pavillion xf328 laptop and of late it refuses to boot.I could not sart it in safe mode or any of the other choices offered at stert-up. I finally got tire of it just repeatedly cycling through the first part of the boot cycle so I got out my power max floppy and reformatted the HD. Then I reinstalled XP pro. It worked fine for several start-ups and now just goes to a blue screen. Is hp somehow proprietary on how I have to 'restore' the system?
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Jul 13, 2005
When I start SR I can only see one restore point, the one I made the day after I replaced my hard drive.But now when I try to create a new restore point it allows me to enter the name, then after I click OK I get the message ''System Restore is not able to create a restore point. Please restart the computer , and then run System restore again.''After I restart I run System Restore again and get the same message.
Also, the restore points I made before I replaced my hard drive no longer show up.When I replaced the drive (with a Maxtore 80 gb), I used their MaxBurn program to duplicate everything form the old one to the new one. It boots from the new C drive and runs OK and all my programs are there, but some act strangely. I'm wondering if these programs are looking for some kind of system volume information tho make sure they are still on the original system.
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Mar 9, 2010
I understand the need for system restore to be enabled on the C: drive. But should it be enabled on the d: drive/recovery partition?
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Apr 28, 2006
I am on the road and trying to do a system restore. I use an external hard drive in my office but I do not have the external hard drive with me now. I can not get the restore to complete and I can not get the undo to fully complete. Is this not working fully because I am not hooked up to my external hard drive? When I initiated the restore it asked something about the external hard drive.
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Jun 3, 2006
A friend game me a Gateway Solo Model 2500 notebook computer. It came with Windows '98 and no software. I want to reformat the hard drive and install a copy of Windows XP that I have. How do I reformat the HD? When I tried I got a message saying that I couldn't format that drive (C) because Windows was using it.
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Dec 29, 2004
I want to reformat my hard drive and i have a win xp update CD rather than the full version. i have my win98 full version CD though. i can't figure out how to do it using a ntfs hard drive and using win xp.
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Feb 7, 2005
I'd like to reformat my hard drive (which I've never done before). One question I have, is do I have to first uninstall windows? I currently have xp pro installed, but I got xp home with the computer when I bought it (don't ask me why, I have no clue.
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May 28, 2007
I have a persistent problem with Windows and every time I open a Windows application the Windows Installer launches and I have to wait 3-5 minutes before I can carry on. I have run Adaware, Reg Edit, Bug Doctor and dowloaded the Windows fix for WI - none of which have resolved the problem, although theyt have marginally improved system speed. I checked the hard drive and there doesn't appear to be any problem sectors, so I have given up and am about to reformat the drive and start again, I am running XP Home and have 2 x 80GB drives. I only want to reformat the C: drive (the f: drive contains only data - no programmes) but when I go into f-disk, it appears to only see the f:drive and not the c:drive.Can anyone tell me a way of formatting only the c: drive?
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Sep 15, 2005
I have gone to Run/CMD and then put in format C:. I am asked if I want to continue and I say yes but then I am told they cannot format because another volume is in use. What is a 'volume" and how can I find out which volume is in use so that I can turn it off?
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Oct 20, 2007
I just wiped-out one of my hard drives that had Windows 98 to install XP. I used DBAN disk wiper. I used it as a SLAVE on my other computer (with XP), it didn't show with the other drives. I know the reason is that it's not formatted. My question is how can I format it if I can't see it?
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Dec 20, 2007
My laptops is having so many problems I am going to reformat it and start over again. I have all of my drivers ready to go. What is the most user friendly method to reformat my hard drive without a disk?
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Mar 2, 2007
A friend of mine has a gateway computer that is running windows XP. She has had alot of buffer overrun errors and also can't make burn dvds , can't read her email and can't go to any search engine. She wants to reformat her hard drive but it will not allow her to do so she is the only user on this computer so there is not an issue with having admin privileges.Any suggestions as to what she can do? Or how she can reformat her drive?
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Jun 29, 2005
I need to reformat my hard-drive, but it says that I can't because it is the system partition. Can I change this somehow so that I can reformat?
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Jan 20, 2008
I am trying to reformat my harddrive using an XP home disc. The problem im having is that my PC is not picking up my USB keyboard on the setup screen and my mother board has no PS2 connection.
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Oct 1, 2005
It been a long time since I did this, I need to reformat the hard drive and reinstall windows xp, due to a program got corrupted, How do I reformat the drive?
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Jun 16, 2006
I am dying to delete everything on my hdrive and compltely rebuild my computer. Am lookin for a quick answer cause am getting like 10 pop ups a minute and its recking my head lol, that and i have so much junk on my computer this formating is well overdue.
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Jan 17, 2005
want specific instructions on how to reformat a secondary hard drive without having the xp disc. never done this before. used to have son do all my hard drive installation work but he moved far away. i have complete system restore discs for first hard drive but does not recognize my secondary hard drive; found this out when reinstalling/doing complete system recovery on first hard drive. of course i backed up all my important information from both drives. i want to reformat second hard drive due to several reasons. One, i want to start off fresh. Two, there is a lot of junk on there i no longer want or need or use.
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Nov 21, 2009
I am pretty sure i am keylogged and i would like to reformat my hard drive. the only problem is, i want to do this without losing my music (i have over 3k songs) any way i can do this without an external hard drive?
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Jun 14, 2005
I have been told that I need to reformat my hard drive because it is infected by a virus. can I do an windows xp reinstall and reformat as explaines here and will that take care of the problem.
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May 6, 2006
Features: P4 Dell Laptop, 20GB HD, CD/DVD ROM drive, 3.5 floppy HD, running a Genuine copy of Windows XP Professional SP2, My laptop is really sluggish, I have done everything from defrag through to using reg cleaning utilities and deleting programs i dont need, i was thinking about reformatting my hard drive, however I dont have my original XP Pro cd. Is there a way of keeping my current OS and reformatting my hard drive on my laptop?
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Jun 27, 2005
I'm having problems with windows xp home and am going to try to use sfc /scannow to repair it. I am in the middle of downloading SP2 to burn to CD so I can have that CD when scannow asks for it since it says that I have missing or replaced files that need to be fixed.Do I just burn the file directly to a CD or do I have to do something special to it to make it run automatically when scannow asks for it? WIll it erase all my data? If so I need to go get an external hard drive first to back everything up since my DVD burner isn't working correctly.
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Apr 13, 2006
I need to do a clean wipe of my system, so it's the same as when I first purchased it, and no, there is no warranty left on my computer.I've everything backed up that I want and need, and I've taken down notes of the drivers, the manufacturers, that sort of thing.I do own the Dell Reinstallation CD, with XP Home, Including SP1.I also own the Dell Tools System Software, and, Dell Resource cd's.I do not know if my computer will boot from the BIOS.From my understanding I need the cd to boot from the BIOS? Do I check to see that it does prior to putting in the restore cd, or do i simply put the cd in, and then choose this option and after that the restore cd will begin?
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Oct 18, 2009
I recently helped someone save the documents off of their computer after it crashed (it was missing a Windows file. I tried the repair command and it wouldn't work, so I decided to save the files and reformat the hard drive).I plugged the hard drive into a working computer and pulled all the documents off of it (VERY slowly) onto an external hard drive.
Every once in awhile I wouldn't be able to pull a picture or document off because of a cyclic redundancy check error. I just moved on and saved what I could. I assumed it was because the hard drive was already bad so I just moved what I could.
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Jun 17, 2006
My son purchased an Acer laptop with Win XP. It keeps shutting down during certain processes like converting files and things that run on their own like virus scans and SpySearch and Destroy. We also cannot get his e-mail to receive. It did for a couple days, but now won't work and our broadn band tech support tried all suggestions and said something else is wrong. We figure at this point the best thing to do is reformat the harddrive. This will also get rid of some unwanted files that were already on the harddrive that we can't delete.
The issue: how do we do this. The only disk we have is the Acer recovery disks.
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Sep 15, 2005
Any possible solutions? where can i go to get a new disc, I have no idea where it went.
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Oct 13, 2006
I have an older laptop (about 3 years) that has some things on it that I really dont care for but would like to wipe the slate clean and just start all over.I was told to reformat the Hard drive but dont know how to do this?then I was told that if I just reinstall Windows XP operating system that this would basically rid myself of most everything and start with Window OS what do you recommend I do in this situation?I just want to give this laptop to my nephew and would like for him to just start with a "new" System.
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Jan 28, 2007
Recently my pc has been acting slow up and I've decided to start fresh with just the operating system installed. The only problem is I don't know the best way to go about doing this. I've heard all i have to do is pop back in the windows xp install disc and I go from there, but I don't want to take any chances.
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Mar 9, 2005
I want to reformat my hard drive, including windows xp. I know this will erase ALL information. that's what I want. Are there any free programs to download or is there a utility already present to do this.
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