2007-01-27 23:19:37 · 6 answers · asked by bella 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
you can format and reinstall
2007-01-27 23:34:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of confusing what you want to ask. Do you mean clean the stuffs that came up all these days whilst you had been using ever since you got it and bring it back to factory state with all the softwares and drivers in the same state when you first recieve it. I know Dell has a hidden partition which has an image of the OS in a hidden partition and if your system is infected with virus or running extremely slow or you want to get it back to the same state when you first recieve it. You can do it by running PC Restore.
If you want to completely wipe off everything from the system then i would say even formatting the hard drive wont work. Becuase with some data retrieval tool you can still get some of the data back. The best thing to do is to do a debug. It will clear the parity table as well which keeps information as to which information is stored on which sector, which cylinder of the hard drive. But hardly anybody do debug to clear the data. Formatting the hard drive is more than enough.
2007-01-28 07:52:59 · answer #2 · answered by Illusion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you bought your computer, it is likely to be loaded with windows and other programs. Do you mean that you want to return to the original state with programs, so that you can sell it? In such a case, you have to have back up disk either coming with your computer or created by yourself at that time. The other alternative is to erase/format followed by loading with the original programs.
If you are looking into privacy of the work you did, then erasing and even formatting is not 100% fool prove. You need some special software (say, system mechanic 7) to erase the disk. The erasure take some 16 times for each file so that no trace can be left over for data retriving ever by dissecting in a clean room with magnetic resonance equipment.
2007-01-28 07:39:04 · answer #3 · answered by piggy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you buy a new computer you hard drive is unpartitioned, to turn your hard drive to when you bought it delete all partitions, there are softwares to do this I think or you can use windows setup ( when you are installing new windows you can do it )
2007-01-28 07:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by batigoal_oha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,this is totally possible and sometimes it is necessary.
2007-01-28 07:24:29 · answer #5 · answered by johndeereman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can by reformatting it.
2007-01-28 07:25:57 · answer #6 · answered by Aggy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋