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Re- formating the drive?

Asked by amit kumar in Computers & Accessories at 8:16 PM on April 24, 2008

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It should say "Press any key to boot from CD" or something

press a key, and it should do some stuff for a while.. until you get to a screen with blue and white text saying what you want to do.. follow the instructions.. its simple enough to follow

Answered by: banish at 8:19 PM on April 25, 2008 | banish's Q&A | Report Abuse
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First, make sure absolutely NOTHING you cannot afford to lose is on the drive you're going to reformat/install Windows on (let's say the C: drive.) Backup it to any pen drive/external hard disk. Follow these steps!

Insert the Windows XP Bootable Setup/Installation CD in the CD drive and restart the system. Boot from the CD (You can change the booting order in the BIOS). The reason why booting from CD is important is because we're going to delete the C: drive partition where Windows is installed and re-format it. For other than bootable partitions, you can reformat it from the Windows itself. (In 'My Computer', right click the drive you like to format and by clicking 'Format' or from DOS Command, FORMAT X:\ (replace x:\ with the drive letter)).

At the Welcome to Setup page, press Enter. Press F8 to accept the Windows XP Licensing Agreement. Press ESC to bypass the repair and install a fresh copy. All the existing partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard disk. Use the ARROW keys to select the partition or the unpartitioned space where you want to create a new partition. Press C to create a new partition by using unpartitioned space. Type the size in megabytes (MB) that you want to use for the new partition. Repeat the above steps to create the extra partitions.

Type the size in megabytes (MB) that you want to use for the new partition, and then press ENTER. use the ARROW keys to select the partition where you want to install Windows XP, and then press ENTER. Select the format option (FAT32/NTFS) that you want to use for the partition and then press ENTER. After the Windows Setup program formats the partition, follow the instructions that appear on the screen to continue. After the Windows Setup program is completed, you can use the Disk Management tools in Windows XP to create or format more partitions. That's it.

Answered at 7:53 PM on April 30, 2008 | Read Comments [0]

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What is the diffrences between core2due and dual core?

Asked by amit kumar in Computers & Accessories at 8:17 PM on April 24, 2008

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"Dual core" is simply a generic term referring to any processor package with two physical CPUs in one (i.e. a CPU with two separate cores on the same die, each with its own cache. It's the equivalent of getting two microprocessors in one). The Pentium D is simply two Pentium 4 Prescott CPUs inefficiently paired together and ran as dual core. In a dual core processor each core handles incoming data strings simultaneously to improve efficiency. To utilize a dual core processor, the operating system must be able to recognize multi-threading and the software must have simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) written into its code. A dual core processor is different from a multi-processor system. In the latter there are two separate CPUs with their own resources. In the former, resources are shared and the cores reside on the same chip.

Whereas The "Core 2 Duo" is Intel's second generation (hence, Core 2) processor made for desktops and laptops designed from the ground up to be fast while not consuming nearly as much power as previous CPUs. The Core 2 brand refers to a range of Intel's consumer 64-bit dual-core and 2x2 MCM quad-core CPUs with the x86-64 instruction set, based on the Intel Core microarchitecture, derived from the 32-bit dual-core Yonah laptop processor. These amazing new processors include up to 6 MB of shared L2 cache, up to 1333 MHz front side bus for desktop, and up to 800 MHz front side bus for laptop. The Pentium D, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo and Athlon X2 are all current CPUs that have dual cores in one package.

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What's the fastest and easiest way for hard drive formatting?

Asked by jasbir ahuja in Computers & Accessories at 8:18 PM on April 24, 2008

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for what use.. normally you format before installing windows on Windows installation disk. If it is another hard drive you wish to format, plug into your computer as a secondary hard drive, go into ....MY COMPUTER... right click (not left click as usual) and click on FORMAT

Answered at 7:49 PM on April 30, 2008 | Read Comments [0]

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How do i run checkdisk utility?

Asked by jasbir ahuja in Computers & Accessories at 8:18 PM on April 24, 2008

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Go to MY COMPUTER
then right click on your local C drive.
Choose properties then on the second tab that is marked TOOLS click that.
It will be the first option.

Answered at 7:48 PM on April 30, 2008 | Read Comments [0]

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How do i repartion my drive?

Asked by seema in Computers & Accessories at 7:44 PM on April 28, 2008

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If u need the data on your harddrive to be kept then use partition magic but if u don't need it then format ur computer and set the partition because sometimes u may have some problems with partition magic.

Answered at 7:46 PM on April 30, 2008 | Read Comments [0]

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What is the different between 64 bit server and 32 bit server? can 64 bit server served 32 bit client PC? are they different in hardware?

Asked by amit kumar in Computers & Accessories at 8:17 PM on April 24, 2008

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Like Windows, the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of SQL Server share the same source code, eliminating maintenance nightmares. The differences between the two versions are limited to a few areas such as cacheline size specification and the virtual page size. There are also inline x86 assembly sections for low-level synchronization constructs where the Itanium architecture code utilizes a rich set of native IA64 intrinsics supported by the compiler.

Answered at 7:51 PM on April 30, 2008 | Read Comments [0]

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recently i encounter a problem with my PC. :the sound was good till last week but all of sudden my PC sound seize for while and it restart again

Asked by gaurav in Computers & Accessories at 7:47 PM on April 28, 2008

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The problem might be with the driver you have installed for the hardware for the sound or the hardware itself just check that it is not conflicting read any of the device or update your drivers

Answered at 7:45 PM on April 30, 2008 | Read Comments [0]

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How do I reverse a reformated hard drive??

Asked by gaurav in Computers & Accessories at 7:47 PM on April 28, 2008

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With your HP, the D partition held your 'System Restore' files.

Without asking HP, there is probably nothing, within reason and lots of expense that you can do.

You might ask HP if they could whip up an .iso file for your D partition and send it to you to install.

Answered at 7:45 PM on April 30, 2008 | Read Comments [0]

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How do I go about extracting the hard drive from its casing?

Asked by seema in Computers & Accessories at 7:45 PM on April 28, 2008

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You mean to recover the data which you have lost due to format then I am sorry to say that the data cannot be recovered and is lost when the formatting was done

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