about my computers hard drive?

Question

instead of doing a total restore to go back to a certian date to do a restore is there a easier way to do a complete and total restore to bring your computer back to the way it came from the factory to totally and completly clean the hard drive with nothing showing up on it. Is there a easier way to totally and completly erase the hard drive a easier way??? Thank you, much...

Answer 1

okay you first need to format your drive erasing everything off of it. Then restore it from a CD. I would recommend using a program like Symantec Live State Recovery and make a base backup of it after you have say your basic progs installed or things you're always going to want. It will basically make an image of your HD and you will be able to backup from that.

Answer 2

The easiest way to "completely erase your hard drive" is to format it
WARNING - this will delete EVERYTHING !!!!

Depending on your operating system do a search on Yahoo or Google how to format your hard drive. After that you will need to reinstall all your programs and you might need to install some drivers.


Good luck

Answer 3

In case all your hard drive partitions marked as unallocated space you can recover your partition using an utility of Disk Director called Partition Recovery.

Answer 4

Requires a few steps, but load up your system with the factory disks, then take a disk image of it after its everything you want it to be. The moment you want to go back to that, just load up your image, and its back to "everything you want it to be"

Answer 5

no, most vermin that create these viruses design them to pop up on restore...xp is a favorite target of these imbeciles and thats the only way to fix it....these people when caught ought to rot in jail...its annoying to have to deal with that.