i only got this new pc about 3 weeks ago. it was delivered and set up for me. but ive had loads of problems with it. so the company have decided they are going to bring me a new one out on friday and swap it. what i want to know is what do i need to wipe off and how ? or would it just automatically wipe itself ? also when the new one is set up will all my information and e-mails and lists and friends all that will it be lost or wiped or will the information still be there. i know i sound confused but computers do confuse me sometimes. would be grateful for any help and advice.
2006-11-08 06:21:41 · 10 answers · asked by angelalways 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
you should have been given some restartin disks! and you put them in and press restart computer and it automatically deletes the whole of the computer memory for you. but if you havent got the disks then im not sure. sorry x
2006-11-08 06:23:52 · answer #1 · answered by Kirstie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to wipe your old computer clean before you give it back to the company, download this software and follow the instructions:
http://download2.lsoft.net/killdisk.zip
It will completely wipe out all data on your computer. No, your new computer will not magically know who your friends are and your contact lists, etc. You'll have to write that stuff down or put it on a CD or something before the new computer shows up. If you use webmail to get your email, it'll still be there. If you use Outlook, then they'll all be gone unless you back them up first.
2006-11-08 06:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by jimimoni5 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all your information on the computer will be lost, anything you have like pictures, text, email that you have saved on your computer will be deleted. you might want to back up your information and files on ether a CD or DVD. that's if you do have a CD or DVD righter drive. or you could try backing the information up on a Flash drive or more known as a pen drive, these are reuse-able storage devices and are quite cheap these day.
Best advice for you is to get all the information on your computer you want to keep ie:
Documents, pictures, emails you have saved, things you have downloaded (programmes etc) and copy them all in to one new folder on your desktop.
Please note: Don't included system files if you can.
Them right click the folder with the files you want to keep and go down to 'Properties' and a box welcome up giving you information about whats in the folder, things like, how many files are in the folder, and size (in Megabytes) or everything added up in the folder. use this key to find what you might need to back up your information.
Up to 512MB of data use a Pen drive that is sized over 512MB. these cost about £12
Try this from ether Curry's or PC world:
http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0397957759.1163014301@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccgcaddjfmihljhcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&fm=1&sm=9&tm=3&sku=254387&category_oid=-27485
Up to 700MB of infomation use a Blank CD and CD wrighter drive. you can pick up single blank disc's from just about anywere but best to get a more (somthing like 10)
You can use these to back up your infomation, just use more than on if you need to.
Upto 4,700MB (thats 4.7GIG) use a blank DVD and DVD wrighter drive, same again with the DVD as with the CD's, they are good ifyou have lots of music.
Last is an external HDD (hard disc drive) these are the best for backing up infomation as you can get really huge Drives to back up your data.
Hope this helps.
2006-11-08 06:38:33 · answer #3 · answered by Kickback 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a recovery CD, put it in and reboot the computer. This will reinstall Windows and restore the computer to 'factory settings'
2006-11-08 06:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by mark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to wipe the hard drive clean, go to drive C:, right click
select format.
2006-11-08 06:29:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you only go it for 3 weeks you'll be fine but if you got like video or photo that you might wanna keep save it on a cd then format your hard drive.so it will erase all the history file you go on you hard drive...
2006-11-08 06:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by Geoff G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your gonna have to save your info either by hand or burn it to cd disk and your gonna want to do a full re-install when saving files make sure not to save the short cuts if I were you find a good friend that knows about computers and have them walk you thru it
2006-11-08 06:27:06 · answer #7 · answered by zippo091 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to ask the company this question. Transfering all your information is very possible, but they could very well just not do it for you. Ask them to and you will recieve.
2006-11-08 06:24:55 · answer #8 · answered by fr0z3nph03n1x 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when they bring out your new pc get the engineer to mirror your hd, or copy all your information you need to disc good luck.
2006-11-08 06:24:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Back up all folders to CD
2006-11-08 06:23:43 · answer #10 · answered by god knows and sees else Yahoo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋