hard drive problem?

Question

how to reformitt my hard drive ? everytime i start up my computor and window xp try to load , it crashes. I had this problem befor and had it service several times. which the technition have to reformitt the hard drive. now i'm having the same problem. So i will like to learn to reformitt my own hard drive and reload programs my self. i did back up my important datas. I know i have flowing viruses in my computor somewhere. please help thank you W.G

Answer 1

1st thing you're going to need is the windows xp disk. Then you just go into the bios and tell the computer to startup from the disk drive first with the xp disk inside the drive and then windows will guide you through the process. It's a lot easier with xp than it has been in the past.

Perhaps the website can help you out more detailed and get you in the right direction.

http://www.cyberwalker.com/topic/36

Answer 2

I had the same problems with my hard drive, in the end I found out it had been damaged b/c it kept losing data. You might want to bear that in mind. In the meantime, formatting isn't that hard at all. Get hold of an oringinal XP disc, set your Cmos (setup, when the comp boots up it'll ask you if you want to enter setup) to boot from the cd rom and put the disc in. Follow the instructions and you're off.

Answer 3

99% of all internet problems can be attributed to the wrong set of Web browser and Email clients in coordination of the
AV/ Spyware / Firewall software.


Get the following, all are free for a safe surfing experience, with proven track records and do not take up
system resources like Norton or McAffee.
install in SAFE mode with networking ( hit F-8 at boot time ), run them all in SAFE mode
with networking as you'll need it for the updates all the programs below will need.
Turn off RESTORE and the RECYLE BIN temporarily as virii can regenerate / reinfect even if you delete
them with both services on. After all the scanning and cleaning after a 2nd reboot and one last
scan do you turn both of them back on.

ANTI VIRAL

AVG (free) http://free.grisoft.com/


FIREWALL

ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

WEB BROWSER - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

EMAIL use thunderbird. It has a good built in spam filter and learns when you teach it. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

SPYWARE

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Once you set it all up create 3 email accounts..

a hotmail or yahoo account for web "verification", this account you will not care if it get spammed

a sub account ( from the master account )to your ISP that you use for logons, this is the one you use for personal
emails only to trusted people and banking, ebay and paypal. Never use the account for anything else than that,
you find spam is low to non existant if you follow this rule, and even if it does become spam laden, then you
can delete the account and create a new sub account and do all the email updates to ebay, paypal, banks and your
freinds.

finally your master account from your ISP, this one you NEVER use, it's only kept for creating sub accounts since
changing the master account is a real pain.


and if you have a wireless router follow these tips,


1. Use WPA encryption (WPA-PSK) it's less crackable then WEP.

2. Make a passphrase that is upper & lower case and has some numbers thrown in there as well, again harder to crack.
some like mAkE1t5eCurE0rel53 and as long as possible.

3. Use MAC access control so only you or authorized PC's can connect (even if you do have encryption turned on)

4. Turn off DHCP use static addresses.

5. Turn off SSID (and change it) unless your card really needs it (some do)

6. Change username/password of access unit front end

7. Ensure you have the usual firewall enabled on your PC.

8. Paranoia rules, turn WLAN off if your not using it :)


one last tip
control panel---administrator tools--services--messenger

right clik on it
stop the service
then disable it
save changes

Answer 4

You should reinstall your Operating System Windows Xp. You can do that with a Rescue disk from your manufacturer.

Answer 5

you just boot the computer off of the CDROM, and have your copy of windows in it. One of the steps will involve formatting and partitioning, and you would do so there, then continue with the installation of windows.

Answer 6

what do you use windows xp/vista?98?

boot from disc and when it says press any key to start from cd press any key......

and from then on follow on screen instructions......
format all partitions if u want to

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/winxp/install.mspx

take a print out maybe handy

Answer 7

Basically put your software to wipe the CD