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    Posted: 18 April 2005 at 4:16pm

Hey guys. Anyway, my hard drive has become quite cluttered, and I really feel like taking everything off it and starting over. After consulting my friends, I could get no clear answers. I have never done this before, so I wanted to know what's the best way to go about re-formatting your hard drive. I have a Dell Latitude CPi laptop and windows 2000. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Backup what ever you need. Throw in your OSes install cd and reinstall. Can't get much more straight forward.

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I had to do that this past weekend. Was not fun because I didnt expect to do it. Something weird happened and corrupted 53GB worth of my stuff. I had just about beat HL2 too.
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Originally posted by mbro mbro wrote:

Backup what ever you need. Throw in your OSes install cd and reinstall. Can't get much more straight forward.

Ok, I did this and it created a new partition. The question now is..how do I delete the old partition with all the old stuff on it that I wanted to get rid of? Meh.

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Originally posted by Benjichang Benjichang wrote:

Originally posted by mbro mbro wrote:

Backup what ever you need. Throw in your OSes install cd and reinstall. Can't get much more straight forward.


Ok, I did this and it created a new partition. The question now is..how do I delete the old partition with all the old stuff on it that I wanted to get rid of? Meh.



Right click on the drive in my computer and go format. Thats what I did.
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Originally posted by paintballman_13 paintballman_13 wrote:

Originally posted by Benjichang Benjichang wrote:

Originally posted by mbro mbro wrote:

Backup what ever you need. Throw in your OSes install cd and reinstall. Can't get much more straight forward.


Ok, I did this and it created a new partition. The question now is..how do I delete the old partition with all the old stuff on it that I wanted to get rid of? Meh.



Right click on the drive in my computer and go format. Thats what I did.

Meh..Tried that. Some message pops up saying close out all windows displaying contents of the drive, so I close out all the windows and try again and it still won't effin work.

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Restart your pc with the install cd in. it should bring you to a blue screen and you can eventually delete partitions.

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