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| Thread ID: 34846 | 2003-06-25 11:39:00 | part 2, format means? | beetle (243) | Press F1 |
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| 155078 | 2003-06-26 10:32:00 | 2K and XP are easiest.. Boot from the CD and it lets you format from within Setup... couldnt be simpler :-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 155079 | 2003-06-26 10:37:00 | and the rest? nothing is that simple is it chill? and any way got to find the cd and they still packed somewhere....... but its getting more urgent by the hour that this is done soooooooon beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 155080 | 2003-06-26 12:10:00 | > and the rest? > > > nothing is that simple is it chill? Yea, straight up its that simple. just keeping following the prompts and what not and its all done and dusted :) |
Archibald (180) | ||
| 155081 | 2003-06-26 21:47:00 | If you have no non windows partitions, then it is exactly that simple. If you have non-windows partitions, you are best to use a disk tool to reformat your disk, as windows doesnt deal with these that well. Have a look in your hardware details for the manufacturer of your harddrive, and most of them have created custom disk wizard tools that are fairly simple to use. Once you have done this, or if you dont need to, then just throw your win-XP/2k CD in the drive, make sure it is set to boot from CD-ROM before HDD-0 in BIOS, and make sure you are sitting at the computer when it boots otherwise you miss the "To boot from CD press space" prompt, thats in all honesty about the trickiest part of reformatting. Then just follow the prompts and you are away laughing. Just make SURE you have copies or access to any software you currently have installed so that you can install it again, your data is backed up so you can transfer it back, and most importantly that your settings are saved... ie your address-book, your ie favourites, any dial-up settings you havent memorised... if you have passwords automatically entered, make sure you know what they are otherwise you will lose them when you reformat, think of it as an exintinction level event for your computer... nothing survives ;-) If you have all the CD's at hand, it will only take you a few hours to do. Iain |
Iain Walmsley (3372) | ||
| 155082 | 2003-06-27 01:04:00 | thanxs guys, a few hours? to fit in sometime between midnight and 6am? uninterupted.....bliss....to fix the computer. mark it on the calender...LOL my night out. beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 155083 | 2003-06-27 01:13:00 | OK Beetle, formatting and reinstalling Win XP is a total no-brainer, it really is. But you have a PC Company computer with (I presume) a recovery CD. Because I have no experience with those we are going to have to rely on other people's help with that. The very first thing you need to do is find ALL the discs that came with your computer - CD and floppy, if there were any floppies. When you have them handy we can go from there. And the format and reinstall of Windows won't take hours, just the reinstalling of all your programs, backed up data, updates, etc. :p You can get back online as soon as Windows is reinstalled and your internet connection is setup. Note to other forum helpers: As I said, Beetle's computer is from the PC Company with one partition as far as I know, unless it has a hidden recovery partition. Does Beetle need to know if it has one, and if so, how would she go about finding out if it has? If it has no recovery partition, do the recovery discs normally install the mobo, etc drivers or do users have to do that themselves after reinstalling Windows? I have looked around the PC Co website but cannot find any info about that. Need to know this stuff so that Beetle can print out instructions to follow. Got to cover all bases, see..... ;-) PS. Just got this (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz) and this (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz) from Beetle... despite all her woes she can still see the funny side of it all, bless her! :p :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 155084 | 2003-06-27 06:12:00 | Go to . seagate . com/support/seatools/" target="_blank">www . seagate . com and run the online file system check . This should read all partitions using a Fat/Fat32/NTFS partition - not sure about Linux but I dont think that matters here . . . If you REALLY want to be certain though, you should get the disc wizard tool written by the appropriate drive manufacturer as in my experience these are the best ones for the job . The only problem is that you need the correct one for the correct drive manufacturer . I know the Seagate and Maxtor ones are much better than FDisk (which isnt hard), havent compared them with the Linux one though . Unless there is something rather unique on the recovery setup anyhow, if youre gonna trash your hard drive, you may as well take the opportunity to set it up exactly how YOU want it, not how some PC Co . tech decided was good . Plus you learn more . Iain |
Iain Walmsley (3372) | ||
| 155085 | 2003-06-27 07:15:00 | done that check and these (if i can get them onscreen) are the results . Results for volume C: (NTFS) Some files on the volume are open . This may effect the accuracy of the file system check and result in false errors . The file system contains errors that need to be repaired . Run: 27/06/2003 5:28:36 p . m . Primary Master Model: ST340810A Serial Number: 3FB4CCKD Capacity: 40 . 0 GBytes Status: No S . M . A . R . T . thresholds exceeded . Run: 27/06/2003 5:30:05 p . m . Primary Master Model: ST340810A Serial Number: 3FB4CCKD Capacity: 40 . 0 GBytes Test result: Self-test routine completed without error . Run: 27/06/2003 6:01:57 p . m . Primary Master Model: ST340810A Serial Number: 3FB4CCKD Capacity: 40 . 0 GBytes Test result: Self-test routine completed without error . does any one understand this? all i see is the first one saying errors need repair . . . . . . . :( how would i find which drivers for the wizard tool thing / that i have? beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 155086 | 2003-06-27 08:17:00 | SMART is self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology Basically it reports when the hard disk is about to crash, and tells the bios/operating system. The first time you ran it, it says that you had some files open which may give false errors. I think this is probably the case so don't worry about it. |
rsnic (3780) | ||
| 155087 | 2003-06-27 08:34:00 | Not to sure what you want to do though, if you want to reinstall windows xp from scratch, and its the same hardrive you purchased with the computer. Just boot from the recovery cd and follow the instructions. I'm pretty sure you have the option to format the disk from there and install. | rsnic (3780) | ||
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