ok i think i might have to do the dreaded "FORMAT C "
 

Now how do i to it?

yeah i will have to do that soon on my PC. I didnt format it in like 5 years and its so damn slow. backing up everything is gonna be a bitch

I didnt want your life story just the way to format c bitch

pour kerosene all over it, then stand back and throw a lit newport on it:thumbsup

u use 98 or xp?

can use a boot disk or the hahahahahahas install disc

make a boot disk with your floppy, boot into that dos command prompt and put FORMAT C:
then Y

dos?

xp

thats what the boot disk is. its a dos command prompt

system restore

Juicy, just put a bullet through it and go get a brand new hard drive.

put your xp disc in - restart your computer - do a install - it'll ask you which partition - delete your partition - format it - create new - install winc|ows

what he said

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do like they said , just put in the win-dows cd and reboot then follow the directions. You may have to go into your BIOS and set your CD to be first boot.

Just a word of advise, if you have any slave drives, unhook them. I've had XP fuck up and boot into one of the slaves and I formated it by mistake and lost everything I was trying to save.

I put in a Seagate Barracuda today. I set it as master after it tranferred the original drive over....


Hmm maybe ill format the barracuda and reinstall a fresh XP ?


Hmmmmmm

great let me go look for the dell recoveery disks. Shit man i was hoping to get some tail tonight also but now i am stuck with this shit :(

This might be a better option, since some viruses are not removed by format C:

Boot with a Win98 boot disk (doesn't matter what operating system you're currently using) and run the debug script by typing:

Debug
?F 200 L1000 0
?A CS:100
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 (81 for 2nd hard drive)
xxxx:010C INT 13
xxxx:010E INT 20
xxxx:0110 (leave blank and hit enter)
?G

(should read ?Program Terminated Normally?)
Note that the xxxx:#### are not typed, but what should be shown on your screen.

This will remove ALL partitions on the drive instantly.

Then just boot with WinXP disk, repartition, format and reinstall (all those options should be presented automatically)
Hope this helps.

:eek7 Did you take some asshole pills?

That's what I do if possible. Just port everything important over and chuck the old one out (after formatting).

Yup, that's how you do it.
If that means you copied the contents of the old
drive over to the new drive...that is not going to work.
There is much more to a primary boot partition than just
copying files over to another drive.

pics?