I have a dell dimension 4400 and I have recently got a trojan virus and I am looking to format the hardrive so that I can reload windows xp on my system. I have tried hitting ctrl + f11 and it does not give me te screen to restart with factory settings. Please help
2007-06-16 16:15:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
If you boot up with your windows disk it will offer you an option to rformat your hard drive with a choice of either FAT or NTFS.
2007-06-16 16:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am telling you from experience ..1st go to www.killdisk.com and load it on a floppy erase your whole harddrive ..before you do this go to your bios settings and set it to boot off your cd rom
restart your pc if your A drive does not take over shove the disk in yer floppy drive go my computer open the program and erase your whole hard drive then stuff the xp cd in yer rom reboot after you remove the floppy and sit for 2 hrs and reinstall xp ..if this isnt enough info email me at spidey.24@hotmail.com and ask anything you need to know I will do my best to walk you through..
2007-06-16 23:34:01 · answer #2 · answered by spidey42056 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have your CD that came with the computer? If so, put it in and when it says "press any key to load from disk" do it and you can format and install a clean version of windows from there.
Otherwise I have to know how much access you have on your computer to do it a different way.
2007-06-16 23:20:08 · answer #3 · answered by Cable Dude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Formatting the HD is painlessly easy - but the fix of last resort. You will have to reload everything and will lose any files you did not backup to external storage.
To format the HD, Open My Computer
right-click on C: -- you will see the option to format
May I suggest a repair first?
WindowsXP Repair Explained
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/options_to_use_when_a_system_will_not_start.mspx?mfr=true
WindowsXP Repair Tools
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm#How%20to%20Repair%20Windows%20XP%20by%20Installing%20Over%20top%20of%20Existing%20Setup:
http://www.download-download-this.com/4.html?OVRAW=Windows%20Installer%20corrupted&OVKEY=window%20installer&OVMTC=advanced
Fix and/or Repair Windows
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm
http://www.onsitechicago.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=23&nav=0
How to Perform a clean WindowsXP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
2007-06-16 23:54:45 · answer #4 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to boot of the xp cd and load xp from there.
2007-06-16 23:19:42 · answer #5 · answered by Katie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boot from windows cd
2007-06-16 23:50:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋