[sannie]

Puh.

So what are we going to do?

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http://www.windowsxp...dexfullpage.htm

It will show up as 2 partitions. Delete the broken or both unless you wanna have all your partition onto one.. THIS WILL DELETE BOTH copies of the OS. This will start fresh.

[ultimateslacker2]

http://www.windowsxp...dexfullpage.htm

It will show up as 2 partitions. Delete the broken or both unless you wanna have all your partition onto one.. THIS WILL DELETE BOTH copies of the OS. This will start fresh.

[sannie]

I look through the instructions and it asks to chose NTFS or FAT32... what's the difference?

[sannie]

I look through the instructions and it asks to chose NTFS or FAT32... what's the difference?

Dell also recommended running PC restore, to restore to the factory settings..

[ultimateslacker2]

NTFS has a better structure file system.

Do you have PC Restore? Is it a hidden partition on your harddrive or on your cd-rom?

[sannie]

Yeah, I should be able to run PC restore... is this better than installing from CD?

[ultimateslacker2]

Yeah.

PC Restore is restoring everything back to the way dell sent it to you.

It will be like you got the PC brand new.

[sannie]

Ok then... I'll give that a try

Thanks for your help!!!!!! Very much appreciated.

One more question: How come I can use one of my programs through my external hard drive [on the Desktop PC that I am writing on right now?] I thought all programs have to be reinstalled?

[sannie]

Ok, I think that doesn't work due to the corrupted hard drive... even though I push CTRL + F11, it takes me to the normal start up options...

I guess, I have to reinstall from CD?!

[ultimateslacker2]

Whew we got ourself in a bundle here.

Yeah, thats the only opition as of the moment.

Run it from the cd.

[sannie]

When I get to the partition page, it shows me three partitions:

-: Partition1 [FAT] 55 MB (47 MB free)
C: Partition2 [NTFS] 71508 MB (11351 MB free)
E: Partition3 [FAT32] 4754 MB (589 MB free)

What do I do now?

[ultimateslacker2]

Ok do NOT touch Partition1

Formatt Partition2
Formatt Partition3

Formatt those two.

[sannie]

Do I have to delete these partitions first or can I "overwrite" them?

Where does Partition1 come from?

Edited by sannie, 08 February 2007 - 09:46 PM.

[ultimateslacker2]

Delete them.

We are starting fresh, remember?

[sannie]

ok.

what's partition1?