Changed it from floppy to cd-rom as first boot and voila! Posted by: Judy 25 Nov Posted by: Dan 25 Nov I recently reformatted 2 laptops of mine and both of them are missing programs despite my installing all the driver cd's.
On my old Compaq Presario , the driver for the wireless card is missing, and there are like 8 software products on the Compaq website under wireless drivers for my computer. On my Dell mini , I am missing Windows search which is critical and the Dell Webcam software not so critical.
Posted by: Milos 26 Nov Posted by: gibby73 24 Dec Posted by: Jason 05 Jan Dear Bob, from one geek to another: I just need to mention something about the process or reformatting.
You CAN with a retail copy of XP and not a preinstalled factory CD use the "upgrade" style to do a new install from within windows, which does at that point allow for formatting, just not through the command prompt since windows is using it and trying to protect it from accidental deletion.
It will work, as I've done it numerous times with excellent results. Posted by: willie gonzales 09 Feb If multiple files and folders are corrupted, it could be a hard drive failure, bad sectors due to a power surge, or some software gone awry.
Posted by: John 29 May Posted by: Kris 31 May I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on the F. But I had some trouble with some of the programs I use, so I wanted to uninstall it. As far as I know, the only way to do this is to reformat the partition on which the OS is installed.
But when I opened disk managament, the option to reformat the partition is just grayed out. How do I work around this? I want to remove 7 without affecting XP. I have a lot of data on the other partitions. Boot from a different partition and you should be able to delete the F: partition. Posted by: Karen 20 Jul I am trying to reformat my hard drive with windows xp but when I boot from CD, it starts to load files and when it gets to "setup is starting windows" I get the blue screen of death and it tells me that a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
I'm not sure if this matters, but I believe I am trying to install an older version of windows xp previously I sent my computer to the shop and I think they put a newer version on it. Please help. Thanks, Karen. Posted by: manyu 01 Aug Formatting a hard drive is not that complicated but before any procedures are carried out, you should backup all important documents and files.
Because formatting your hard drive will erase all your files and settings. You can use tools such as Mozilla backup to save any browser settings, favourites or thunderbird settings and there are plenty of such tools for Outlook and Internet Explorer. One recommendation I would make is to either have two hard drives in your system and dedicate one to the operating system and one to your data and files.
This makes future operating system upgrades or re-installs a breeze. If you don't have the luxury of two drives you can always split the partitions into two. Make one partition at least 50GB for the operating system I usually make mine 74GB and make the rest for your data. You can create partitions during the installation of your operating system as Windows gives you this option.
Posted by: zyphus 22 Dec You can format all the harddisk except for the one with windows in it. By setting virtual memory to "no paging file" on the hard disk you wanted to format. Doing that by open "hardware manager" under "Advance" tab, Performance, setting, Advance tab, then click "Change" Then has to restart. Hope this help also don't forget to change it back after formating. It kinda amaze me that noone mention this technic before :. Posted by: Pat 16 Apr Greetings to you Bob, I had Erased my western digital external hard drive and was was trying to re install it, but it's a plug and play How do i get XP Pro to see it and get it to work??
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There is technically a difference between deleting and erasing a drive. If you want to format your hard drive so you can install Windows again from scratch , your hard drive will be automatically formatted as part of that process. You can also format a hard drive via Command Prompt using the format command. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.
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By Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. Reviewed by Ryan Perian. Tweet Share Email. What to Know Open Disk Management, locate and right-click the disk you'd like to format. Choose Format. Enter a name for the drive. Under Allocation unit size , choose Default.
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