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| Thread ID: 32977 | 2003-05-03 07:23:00 | Formatting Hard Drive | taxboy4 (579) | Press F1 |
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| 140984 | 2003-05-03 07:23:00 | Hi My old computer (a P3- 550) has been sitting on my study floor ever since i upgraded 9 months ago and I have now got the hard word to clean it and give it to a relative. Its full of so much crap I thought best way to go is to simply format it, reload XP , Word, and Email and let it go out a virgin. Can any one give me some sites etc on the steps to format a hard disk. Also I guess I'll need to create a floopy disk with the drivers, dos instructions to active the CD Rrive too so I can reload XP? Any help gratefully received. |
taxboy4 (579) | ||
| 140985 | 2003-05-03 07:27:00 | go to the FAQs up in the top right and all will be reveled | holden (2488) | ||
| 140986 | 2003-05-03 07:50:00 | Hi Are you refering to something in your posting? |
taxboy4 (579) | ||
| 140987 | 2003-05-03 07:57:00 | > go to the FAQs up in the top right and all will be > reveled this is the FAQ: pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 140988 | 2003-05-03 08:08:00 | follow the link from stu 140103 and go to FAQ 33 and print it out and you will be away |
holden (2488) | ||
| 140989 | 2003-05-03 09:27:00 | In case you are still wondering, this forum has a collection of FAQs that can be accessed from the link, top right of this page. The reformatting FAQ is there amongst them. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 140990 | 2003-05-04 02:27:00 | Thanks very helpful! |
taxboy4 (579) | ||
| 140991 | 2003-05-04 12:15:00 | Someday I might even take the effort to read those FAQ's ;-) | Iain Walmsley (3372) | ||
| 140992 | 2003-05-05 04:55:00 | > Someday I might even take the effort to read those FAQ's *Starts swinging lasso overhead* Even better still, I am sure you would do a wonderful job at writing a few for us. ;-) :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 140993 | 2003-05-05 05:01:00 | Surely, all you need to do is boot the installation disk for the OS, tell it you want to partition the disk, remove any partitions, make one partition, and carry on. It will then format the disk in the flavour of your choice, then install the OS, won't it? Or is that too simple an approach to work? B-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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