.TuG.Bran Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I need help on Reformatting for Xp. I don't Really know how to do this, so if someone could tell me how or give me a site that tells me how i would appreciate it! Thnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Beaver Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 If you have a windows XP CD, then it is a bootable CD - just make sure you go into your bios and set the 1st Boot Device to CD rather than Hard-Drive. Place the windows XP cd in the drive & re-boot. Follow, the prompt when it says hit a key to boot from CD and the machine will then boot from the XP CD and go into it;s install routine. You can then either do a repair or format the disc and do a fresh install. I would however make sure you acked up all your emails & things 1st as these will be lost. The other option is to do a repair on XP 1st and see if that works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Bran Posted December 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Where are the bios at? Im clueless at reformatting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Bran Posted December 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 O yea and another thing.... I have a years subscribtion of Norton.. And the last time i reformatted i got the 3 month trial and had to pay for a new one Is there a way where i can keep the years subscribtion without paying again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Beaver Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Well, the bios is usually accessed by hitting the 'del' or 'f1' key when the pc is 1st fired up - that's all the stuff you normally see on screen telling you what drives & how much memory etc before the windows XP logo actually arrives. As for the Norton - not sure what you need to do for that - I guess they sent you a code or something to put into in when you bought it - that is ur subscription i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.TuG.Bran Posted December 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Thanks Beav!!!! IM ALL FIXED!!! just gotta reinstall everythin =/ Hoped to be playing with you guys in full blast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^Tinman^ Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 I thought you wanted to re-format your hard drive. Did you also delete the primary partition or c drive and re format, then install a fresh copy of windows? It might also be a good idea to have more than one hard drive to back up stuff that you want. I just unhook that drive and reformat when windows gives me a left hook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantalus Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 Originally posted by TUGr_^Tinman^@Jun 7 2004, 11:10 PM ...It might also be a good idea to have more than one hard drive to back up stuff that you want.... or a separate partition.. I have a ghost image (produced by Nortons Ghost) of my system after a clean install, with all updates & office installed - So if my system partition goes belly up I use my 'Ghost Boot disk' to get back to a reasonable starting stage.. (with 280GB of storage I have plenty of room for maneouvre!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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