[DamoC]

My super computer has been shattered from my persistent tinkering. Im now ready 2 clear it all and give it a new lease of life. what is best way 2 clear and restart whole thing??

 

[dannyboyfx]

what do mean by shattering. Is the hard drive corrupted, did the motherboard croak. are you building a whole new rig, or do you jsut want to wipe the hard drive.

 

[DamoC]

COMPUTER IS PRETTY NEW. JUST THAT WHEN I WAS tinkering with it i appear 2 have deleted a whole hard drive. not in bios. meant 2 have 180gb and am running on 8

 

[mobo]

Did you get a restore cd with it ?

 

[DamoC]

got windows xp disk. there was a system restore on the c: drive and an f: drive. now i reinstalled windows on c: drive and deleted F: drive. i would love 2 restore computer

 

[mobo]

what do you mean there was a system restore onn both C and F drives ? As well did you make C drive the entire hard drive ?

 

[DamoC]

yes, i did. however it appears 2 be running under capacity

 

[mobo]

What size was the hard drive when you bought it ? Then right click "my computer" select manage / disk management and tell me what you see in the lower right diagram for disks and thier size.

 

[DamoC]

8.66 BB NTFS 163.89 GB unallocated

 

[DamoC]

thats GB and thanks for your time

 

[mobo]

So if you werer to reformat you should delete the partitions then use about 60 for c drive when installing then we can make a partition afterwards with the remaining space.

 

[DamoC]

ok Think i got ahead of myself and have started 2 format remaining space 2 use for new disk. hope that this is one and same. if not tell me, if so thanks 4 support

 

[mobo]

you have a 160 g drive. Xp has to be on C drive. Since its 160 gig you need more than ! partition so maybe 60 and 100 will do it.then reformat and install xp onto c drive and when partitioning delete all paretitions and create new ones and size them accordingly.

 

[DamoC]

thanks again. however im a little lost when it comes 2 partitions. i have 1 c drive and have partitioned rest into d drive (formatting at mo). If there is something else i should do im afraid that u will have 2 walk me through sorry

 

[mobo]

So you drive is currently set at 8 gig and 164 gig..I would change that if I were you...you do want to wipe off the operating system and reload it correct ?

 

[DamoC]

cool, ok. how would I do that please, if u have the time

 

[mobo]

First , do you have two computers here to follow anong with ?

 

[DamoC]

no sorry, just this 1

 

[mobo]

You going to have to go it alone then. Just reboot with the xp cdrom select setup and follow the commands. You will need your product key here as well so have it handy. Once you start you must keep going; no turning back.

Here is something to look over before stareting http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[DamoC]

Cheers mate, ill do that 1st thing 2morrow morning. thank u very much 4 time and support. very much appreciated