I want to sell my system but I want to totally clean my hd. I've heard that fdisk is the best to get but when I built this machine I decided not to get a floppy drive. Anyone know of a way to wipe it clean without being able to recover filez?
View 8 Repliesi've just finished rebuilding my pc, and i am left with some frontside sound/usb cales which are like mic - power, l - out, l - ret, etc i decided to put them in the slot which looked right for them on the motherboard, i wasn't getting very good sound from it so i decided to unplug them so i could research where they go, now even my internal motherboard sound isn't working at all (don't have a spare soundcard) tried doing a system restore/unstall/reinstall/cleared cmos/unistalled/reintstalled realtek ac97 codecs, i'm pretty sure i haven't blown the ports on the motherboard, so what could it be, i neeeed my music.
View 13 Replies View RelatedWhat would make a C: drive with only Win XP and nothing else on it fill up. It is a 10 GB drive. I installed XP Pro to it and everything else to different drives. The C: drive totally filled up and I couldn't seem to find anything to delete from it to make room. I did all the cleanup steps with no results. I have now reformatted it and am installing XP again, but would like to avoid this problem in the future if I can. Plan to use Fred Langa, of the Langa List, steps to lighten up XP, but not sure that will be enough since I don't know what caused the problem in the first place.
View 11 Replies View RelatedMy friend was listening to music and then started up a game. My computer, being old and slow, couldn't handle it so it got all slow and kinda messed up. So he did something, I didn't really see what, and when everything cleared up, the desktop was totally inverted. It was upsidedown and backwards. Not only this, but the mouse was also backwards.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI don't know how it happened, but I was cleaning my keyboard after I spilled tea on it and hit some random keys and now my control button puts my computer into standby mode. My backspace key does not work and my plus and minus buttons do not work either. I think I remapped some keys somehow during the cleaning process and was wondering if anyone knew how to set everything back to default.btw, it's a pain to have to highlight typing errors with mouse and cut it out of the text instead of being able to use backspace or delete.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHere's the problem.. I ran windows update and installed SP2, and restarted my computer, but when i logged on, i felt that SP2 is not the right service pack for my computer, so i stay with SP1, so i've used System Restore but when i restored the computer, I still see in the Add/Remove Programs the SP2.i tried to Remove it but it promted that when I remove SP2, some programs will not work properly, like Ad-Aware, etc. I need further information about this one and how to totally remove SP2 from the computer
View 7 Replies View Relatedas you can see from the picture my start menu has no "recent used" programs. you are probably thinking it is related to the theme i am running on my computer, but nope i had this problem before installing this theme. although previously i did have windowsblinds installed on my computer, and during this the problem occoured.
i have tried system restores and every one i try says its unable to do in properties for the start menu
My XP Pro freezes thoroughly, mouse and keyboard in place, and the machine appears to be in a coma. I must power down to get out of it.The freeze may take place while the desktop is loading, or it may wait for me to do a few thinks, but it doesn't take long. If I boot in safe mode with network it doesn't freeze.If I boot in other than safe mode, when the cursor is left at center screen (after loading my info) it takes several minutes to finish loading systray, desktop, etc.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently had a computer guy install Win 2000 professional on a computer that had previously had win 98 which was really hosed bad. ( a clean install) Now, of all the luck it freezes after just a few minutes or perhaps 10 minutes sometimes. I mean it freezes, it will not respond to Ctrl Alt Del at all. Nothing will unfreeze it short of the reset switch. Weird huh?? The only thing I can think of that might have happened is I tried to do a Norton Live Update and it stopped and said that it did not complete, gave a long list of error messages of what did or did not happen and to contact tech support with the full body of message. I don't know if I am even registered with Norton all I know is that is says I have 365 or 364 days left on my license or whatever.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a formatted hdd and I install it with win xp. My question is, why is't my files still exist there after I format my hdd. I use recovery file software. Is there a way to totally destroy my files in hdd.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHey my computer is totally locking up for no reason i had almost this same problem with my last computer but only the mouse would freeze, now on this new computer mouse and keyboard lock up and usually if im playing music or whatever that will freeze up too no other way to get out of this is to shut it off manually. It does this at random times when nothing but internet explorer or msn is open or sometimes it does it when i have something like bittorrent open i took it to a computer store and he booted it up it didnt freeze when he tryed it so he thought it was ok(i dont think it is) he said try a new keyboard and mouse.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThis is really BAD. I've never heard of this happening quite like this, but here it goes:XP will NOT boot at all. There is no sign of anything on the screen whatsoever. I can't get into safe mode, nor use a bootdisk as far as I can tell. I cannot get any control through the keyboard or mouse, apparently. It's as if the computer is not connected to the monitor. I bought this computer from a friend one year ago. He is knowledgable, and had cleaned it up quite well. It had XP installed as well as the usual stuff like IE5/IE6, Mozilla, Adobe, Zone Alarm, etc. He had 2 HDDs installed, partitioned into 5 drives, for a total of almost 175 GB. Athalon 2100 CPU, 512 RAM (IIRC), Audigy 2 Platinum SoundCard
View 11 Replies View Relatedas some of you may or may not know.. i have had some ( ok ok alot ) of problems with my computer since the hydro kept flickering on and off a few weeks ago.. well my saga continues.. I decided to say screw it and reformat. well it wont reformat properly it wont totally wipe the c drive.. it will delete and or reformat the d drive partition.. but when i come back c drive still has all the program files etc.. i have tried to do it through system restore and type in reformat c: /fsintfs and that wont wipe it either.
View 8 Replies View RelatedThe computer will not boot. I have tried boot disk and it goes right to the A drive...I can run a diagnostic which passes all test. I can not go to the C drive or the CD drive but I can access the CD drive through the F12 which allows me to use start options. Nothing in the CD drive, except Norton Utilities, works and Norton only works on Drive A...Drives C & F are not there. They also come up as invalid drive specification in the Dos mode which is where I am stuck. I want to format the entire HD and repartition it. The message is invalid partition and the blue screen tells me there are too many partitions boot.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a dell laptop and sometimes the screen just goes totally black. I need to power off by pressing the power button several time sbefore it will work again. Once the windows screen comes up it does work. soemtimes uit takes several tries to get it to work.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI need to know how to get my desktop to look the way it always has in the past. I did some odd thing and now the toolbar that has always behaved and stayed at the bottom of my desktop horizontally, is now standing straight up vertically on the left side of my desktop. What is the procedure to get it back to my "normal".
View 10 Replies View Relatedi have a Gericom Official Notebook computer, it will not boot up at all, the power comes on and i think its the fan i can here spinning, and the lite comes on, so the power ok. the hard drive light flashes twice But the screen is totally black, and there is no POST beep.
View 4 Replies View RelatedCan I totally remove a file association so that type of file once again has no association set? I set some dat files to open with WMP which was fine for my purposes then but later changed them to mpeg files and so don't need to keep that dat file association anymore. I want to get the dat files back to having no particular program assigned to open them. All I can do now is change it to other programs which isn't what I want. Any way to start with a clean slate again? (I guess I could change the dat icon so I can tell what they are if there's not a way to unassociate them.) Dat files have always kind of spooked me, I want to be sure people don't click them thinking they'll play a vcd.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was using system restore with Windows XP SP2 to restore my system to an earlier point, and when the system restarted, everything was extremely slow, none of the drivers were working (graphics accelerator, internet, etc), and half the programs, including virus scanners, won't work. I've tried starting the computer in Safe mode, but it's still slow, and when I try to open system restore, I get the message: "System Restore is not able to protect your computer. Please restart your computer, and then run System Restore again", and this reapears no matter how the computer is started.
View 3 Replies View Relatedall I need to get my computer, as it was when i bought it it is windows xp.
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Am trying to clean out cookies, when done I get an index file that says there are 160kb in file that I cannot access.How do I access these to see what is there? It also says another program is usin this file and that I cannot access the file.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI bought 2 SATA HDDs and would like to set them up as RAID and clean install XP and all the drivers/programs on them. I don't want to use those image drive programs to transfer the old drive to the new drive. My old HDD has XP on it (activated) and I would like to format it and use it for data storage later. Do I need to reactivate after I clean install XP on the new HDDs (same mobo and CPU)? I have NOT plugged the HDDs in my computer yet.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am going to try to do a clean install of XP. When i am ready to get my updates do i download all of them at once then reboot or do i have to get one at a time and reboot after each one?
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhat drivers will I need? ..I have most of the stuff but some of the disks were for my winme OS I think. How do I find out what motherboard I have and what driver I need?if it all goes pear shaped will I be able to put my old master in and get back to square one?if it the Xp install goes fine can I put in my old master as slave and copy the needed files over to the new master? The old master is fat32, so would that be a problem?I only have the winme version of word but my dads laptop has word perfect for xp...could I use this?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedDid Not Find The Reply To My Message Asking Which Blocks To Check To Do A Disk Clean Up Although I Know There Was A Reply.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have finnaly decided to enter the world of high speed internet (wait for appluse) and before I do this I want to optomize my computers preformence so I have Checked the hard drive for errors and defragmented it when I try to use the Disk Clean Up tool that comes with XP it asks what drive i want to check then I click the main drive and I get this error:"Disk Cleanup Manager for Windows has encounterd a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience"I looked it up and did not find any thing that lead me to belive that it was a common error Is there anyway that I can reinstall it or another way to run it? Also if anyone has any advice on speeding up my computer let me know.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been preparing all week for a clean install of XP this weekend. The only question I still can not find an answer to is whether or not I can get the SP2 from windows update after I have reinstalled XP I purchased prior to SP2, in August 2003. I recall reading somewhere that it was not available after a certain date. I would like to confirm I can get all the neccessary updates from microsoft's website after I have reinstalled.
View 5 Replies View RelatedDesk top cleaner appears to run by its self only after computer is left on for 4 plus hours inactive i have turned off desk top cleaner and verified it is off but still seems to do it randomly,if that is what is causing the following - all non ms icons are removed from desk top all email adresses are gone all ie explorer pages and favorites history ect. gone allpersonal documents are gone - I can find the links to my papers and pictures in my computer properties [then searching all the files] all but pictures when clicked say link is bad and do i want to delete Its like my computer is doing a fresh install of the whole system with out a reboot or such also desk top clean up folder is gone have tried many ways to find it tried system restore there is not a earler restore point but if two weeks laterthen there are some but none earlier thanthis last reinstall.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI got this clean Recycle Bin any one know how to get rid of it.
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