Holy Cow! What should I do?

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sj022698

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Ok. Here we go... I have a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. (512mb, winXP Home) Once you log in, you end up locking up (and you can't ctrl,alt,delete) You have to hard shut down. It also will lock up before it even gets to the login page or the monitor won't kick on either sometimes. I have run virus scan, lavasoft, and disk cleanup. I have cleaned all temp. and prefetch files. I have tried to do a "system restore" back to an earlier date and it will lock up. I have tried going into safe mode. Even hitting F2 on the boot and doing a "hard disk test" locks up.

I don't have the QuickRestore disks for them but I'm hesitant to buy them because I don't know if it would make it though 4 disks without locking up. Sometimes it locks up in 5 seconds!

I don't care about losing everything. It doesn't matter to me. I just want the bare bones. I have the XP disk so I can just put it back on.

I'd love to be able to reformat very quickly. If I do a reformat, how can I do so without the restore disks? Is there a cmd prompt? If so, what do I do about the partitions. I'm not real familiar with partitions so please dumb down the answers for me please. I just want everything erased. All suggestions, thoughts, freeware software recommendations are very much welcomed!

Thanks,
Justin
 
the easiest thing to do is do a clean windows install on a new harddrive. or you can put the windows xp disk in then turn off again. with the disk in turn the notebook on and press whatever key takes you to setup. it is delete for me then from bios you can make it so it loads from the cd before the harddrive. Then it will start windows setup. from there folllow the instructions. this will reinstall windows after formatting.setup will format but you will lose all data
 
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