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Article #34423Re: reformatt hard drive
From: Steve McCrea
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <wT5gSCAw+jE3Ewyc@jsmdalkeith.demon.co.uk>, jim mackay <jim@jsmdalkeith.demon.co.uk> writes >i am fed up with getting error messages whilst doing work on my home pc, >i have downloaded quite a lot of shareware,people im office are divided >about how to solve it,half are convinced the best way is to delete all >the shareware and start again the other half think is to reformatt my >hard drive.One of the errors completely wiped out my clean sweep >programme so that i cant ensure that when i take out the shareware i get >it all out . any ideas or other solutions or should i reformatt tyvm Hi Jim, I format my drive on a regular basis, it certainly speeds things up a bit and solves a few problems but, before you do make sure that you have all the drivers for your CD, Video Card, printer etc and details of any serial numbers for installed programs that you wish to re install, also make *very* sure that you have at least two boot disks that will allow you to access your CD drive. (To check put a CD into the drive turn your machine off and turn it on with the boot disk in the floppy drive) I also back up my bookmarks/favorites from Netscape and Internet Explorer onto a floppy as a word document. All the best. -- Steve
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