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Topic: computer help- reformatting

Posted By: Benjichang
Subject: computer help- reformatting
Date 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.

-Nate

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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 4:20pm

Hey Nate!

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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 4:22pm

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

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Posted By: paintballman_13
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 5:09pm

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.

Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 5:16pm

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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Posted By: paintballman_13
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 5:18pm

Benjichang wrote:

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.

Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 5:30pm

paintballman_13 wrote:

Benjichang wrote:

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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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 18 April 2005 at 5:42pm

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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