delta7 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Just to expand on what was discussed last night with a few links for those interested 1) format is used to clean out your drive , as you use it then your drive and registry gets clogged up and slow so a periodic clean up and start again helps , for info on partitioning and formatting see here http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives.htm http://www.theeldergeek.com/f.htm REMEMBER WHEN YOU FORMAT YOU LOOSE EVERYTHING SO TAKE A BACKUP FIRST 2) nero ( or other back up utilities) are insurance for when things go wrong. they take a mirror image of your drive( complete with any errors) , you can store this image on a seperate partition, second drive or cd/dvd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleTap Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Dave, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBloke Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 If you have a situation where you feel a format is too much trouble and you really need to get something sorted out with your XP OS then consider an in-place repair. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm I know it has got some warnings to it and here's another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleTap Posted December 11, 2006 Report Share Posted December 11, 2006 If you have a situation where you feel a format is too much trouble and you really need to get something sorted out with your XP OS then consider an in-place repair. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm I know it has got some warnings to it and here's another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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