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MovedGoalPosts · 20-08-2006, 19:21

Be careful what you reformat. If you reformat the partition on which windows is installed you may be OK. If you reformat the whole HD, such that you delete partitions you could easily wipe the recovery stuff.

Too late now, but whenever you buy a PC, always get a master CD for reinstalling windows together with driver disks rather than this recovery stuff. As a minimum burn a CD of the recovery files so you can,. as you now need to, mess with the PC without loosing the whole lot.

Make sure you back up everything you can, before you even think of reformatting. But if the HD is on the way out, format may or may not solve the problems even temporarily.

20-08-2006, 19:21	#2
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 62 Posts: 15,868	Re: My Sisters PC = Fubured? Be careful what you reformat. If you reformat the partition on which windows is installed you may be OK. If you reformat the whole HD, such that you delete partitions you could easily wipe the recovery stuff. Too late now, but whenever you buy a PC, always get a master CD for reinstalling windows together with driver disks rather than this recovery stuff. As a minimum burn a CD of the recovery files so you can,. as you now need to, mess with the PC without loosing the whole lot. Make sure you back up everything you can, before you even think of reformatting. But if the HD is on the way out, format may or may not solve the problems even temporarily.