Reformatting

[dilly148]

My computer is as slow as anything and has tons of ad-ware and prolly trojans anf virus and what not. My computer has windows XP Home on it and was an OEM (it came with windows on it) is their a way to refomat the hard drive so where I was just left with a new clean hard drive and just winows on there and jsut go through the original setup process when I bought my computer? A link would be great.

 

[Praetor]

Have a lookie
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

 

[dilly148]

Have a lookie
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

I already have windows XP installed. It's just that I want to re format the hard drive. My computer was an OEM so it had Windows pre-installed. Meaning there was no actually cd copy of windows. My question is that, is there a way to re-format and clean off all of my hard drive and still have windows on there.

 

[jbrown456]

simpley, no. You need to re-install windows. It means the same thing as format.

 

[polaris500ho4x4]

there should be a disk that comes with the computer for reinstalling windows... look around its prolly somewhere, then pop it in the drive and it will guide you from there


make sure u click Re-install windows

 

[DCIScouts]

Careful when you do this, because you will lose ALL of your information that you have put on to that drive. If you have anything that needs to be saved, be sure that you do so BEFORE re-formatting/re-installing... Good Luck!

 

[kof2000]

u can still recover files from a format. just not all of them usually.