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Reformatting Hard Drive
Hello I am just bought a second user computer and the original owner seems
to have removed a number of programs and files. The resulting drive is fragmented and although it has been defragged I would like to reformat the hard drive so that I can effectively install what software and files I wish. I would be grateful if anyone could post with how you do it as I have never reformatted a hard drive before. I have windows XP Home that I will put on after the drive is formatted but just need instructions on formatting the drive. Thanks Colin |
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Just use the XP Home disk to boot - one of the options on the installer is a
clean install with reformat -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Colin Brittain" wrote in message ... Hello I am just bought a second user computer and the original owner seems to have removed a number of programs and files. The resulting drive is fragmented and although it has been defragged I would like to reformat the hard drive so that I can effectively install what software and files I wish. I would be grateful if anyone could post with how you do it as I have never reformatted a hard drive before. I have windows XP Home that I will put on after the drive is formatted but just need instructions on formatting the drive. Thanks Colin |
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