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Sep 15, 2005Any possible solutions? where can i go to get a new disc, I have no idea where it went.
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Jan 17, 2005want 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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Feb 7, 2005I'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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Sep 15, 2005I 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, 2007I 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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Jun 16, 2006I 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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Jun 14, 2005I 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, 2006Features: 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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Apr 13, 2006I 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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Feb 14, 2007A while back a friend partitioned my hard drive into three different partitions. the one I use is now almost full and I would like to merge the almost-full partition with the next partition, which is completely empty. Can anyone help me with the steps to do that? Thanks in advance. I have a windows xp system with the big service pak installed also. the pc is a dell dimension 4300 with a 1.6 ghz processor and 513 mb of RAM.
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Jul 5, 2005I 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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Jul 30, 2008Of course, I looked around the web about how to reformat the hard drive.My computer's been experiencing problems-page fault in nonpage area;(blue screens) or irql drivers less equal to or something like that.So, my computer has taken a beating and seems corrupt.So I tried booting the Windows XP with the Windows XP service Pack 2,and I tried installing windows, but as soon as the setup loads the files, it skips over to starting windows xp...and then as soon as xp installation starts, it turns to guess what? PAGE FAULT IN NON FAULT AREA. The format option is completely skipped over.So is there NO WAY I can format the hard disk, start from scratch?
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