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Mikey4eva · 02-24-2003, 11:36 PM

Hey all, hope you can help. My rig crashed about a week ago, so I installed Windows XP onto my hard drive again over the first one....so it is taking up twice as much space, etc. Plus... i have two boot logs...and it is crashing, and not recognizing my roxio burning software. I asked the guy who built my computer and he said i had to reformat my hard drive and do a clean install. The only problem is is that i dont know how to reformat a hard drive. Does this mean EVERYTHING is gonna get deleted and my space is gonna go back up? i got a 120 gb hard drive right now and it is showing 80 and I know I didnt use THAT MUCH YET! lol So if anyone can please help i'd appreciate it. Thanks, mike

02-24-2003, 11:36 PM	#1
Mikey4eva Member (5 bit) Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 24	Reformatting my hard drive Hey all, hope you can help. My rig crashed about a week ago, so I installed Windows XP onto my hard drive again over the first one....so it is taking up twice as much space, etc. Plus... i have two boot logs...and it is crashing, and not recognizing my roxio burning software. I asked the guy who built my computer and he said i had to reformat my hard drive and do a clean install. The only problem is is that i dont know how to reformat a hard drive. Does this mean EVERYTHING is gonna get deleted and my space is gonna go back up? i got a 120 gb hard drive right now and it is showing 80 and I know I didnt use THAT MUCH YET! lol So if anyone can please help i'd appreciate it. Thanks, mike