Davetrials Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 (edited) I wanna reformatt my comp but i cant be arsedcan i just buy a new hard drive from say pc world replace it and re install windows? Edited February 11, 2007 by Davetrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Yep if you want. Although watch out because your new windows installation wont be able to access anything inside c:/documents and settings/username/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 what the hell does that meanoh a computer noob as well.so ive no idea what u just said.say it stupid for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Move any files out of that folder. Probably your my documents etc and you should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trials_pimp Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 surely if hes just bought a new hard drive tehre will be nothing on it anyway.So dave yes you can do that, but if you have anything that you wish to keep from the old hard drive, store it on something else, is CD.To be fair it will take more effort to get up and go to the shops and buy a hard drive than it would to format your current one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Formatting is piss easy, much easier than buying a new hard drive just backup anything you want to CD/DVD and put your windows cd in on startup and follow instructions basically, and then reinstall your hardware drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 dave just format it you tool Get all your porn + pictures onto cds. Right click c:\ and go "format" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 i cant formatt:(i just DONT NO HOW!!!im ashamed.my disc drives are just goosed, i dont seem to have any of the right disc'show the f**k do i close everything, it keeps complaing that it cant formatt cos theres somthinjg open, but there ISNT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reece B Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 wouldn't it be easier to buy an external hard drive, and copy all your data. ie pictures, music etc. then just re-format the pc once done move all the files back.. or am i just being silly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 i dont need anything on my comp ne moreso it can all gobut it wont f**king let me formatt it cos it says sumthings in use, but nothing is !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reece B Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 have you got the windows disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 you can't format the system partition from windowsjust do this:put your windows cd into the cd driverestart the pcread what it says on the screendon't say you can't do it, just do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 it complains and says hat the version already installed is newer than that on the discso it throws a paddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Well use the right disk then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 dont have it smart ass, else id use it.i thort oh maybe defragging it will help its been started since 11 last nite, and its on 20% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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