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| Thread ID: 106010 | 2009-12-22 01:24:00 | help with reinstalling sound card & ethernet drivers | deno240 (13664) | Press F1 |
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| 842219 | 2009-12-22 03:14:00 | No nothing was backed up, had to start right from scratch again. So how would I format the drive? Sorry I'm not good with computers at all. Would I just do a clean install of xp.. as I had done before, or is there something else I need to do? |
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| 842220 | 2009-12-22 03:43:00 | Yes, just do a reinstall of XP the way you just did it, but when it comes to ask you where you want to install XP, and shows the partitions, delete them all first, then create one, and install to that. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 842221 | 2009-12-22 03:49:00 | I did that in the first place, I pressed D then L to confirm, I did that on both C and D. I've just done a bit google research which says you can convert to NTFS, so I'm formatting the C drive now which isn't being used and with some luck I'll be able to convert it without losing the data on the D drive.. if that doesn't work, then I guess I'll have to start from scratch again. |
deno240 (13664) | ||
| 842222 | 2009-12-22 03:57:00 | I did that in the first place, I pressed D then L to confirm, I did that on both C and D. That's the bit where it says "Your data will go away if you delete the partition, if you are really sure you have everything you wanted from this drive backed up, then go ahead and press L". :stare: It may be possible to recover some of it with a bit of work, the less you use the drive the better, but in these cases your mileage is usually less than you hope... (especially now that you have installed windows to one and re-formatted the other, I would say approaching zero) |
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