-- Posted by drop of rain at 9:54 am on Feb. 18, 2007 No joke. Im so pissed off ... how do i reformat a computer? -- Posted by Artistic Drain at 9:55 am on Feb. 18, 2007 You transfer all the files you want to keep onto another computer or cd. Get your reformatting CDS. Put them in, turn the computer on and follow the steps. -- Posted by Blasphemous Cow at 9:56 am on Feb. 18, 2007 If you don't know how, don't. You'll fuck something up. -- Posted by Windows Vista at 9:59 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Blasphemous Cow at 11:56 am on Feb. 18, 2007 If you don't know how, don't. You'll fuck something up. Actually I did it the first time having no idea what so ever what I was doing and it went fine. -- Posted by Blasphemous Cow at 10:05 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Windows Vista at 9:59 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Blasphemous Cow at 11:56 am on Feb. 18, 2007 If you don't know how, don't. You'll fuck something up. Actually I did it the first time having no idea what so ever what I was doing and it went fine. You are obviously more computer-literate than this person. -- Posted by shes3lectric at 10:06 am on Feb. 18, 2007 heehee I have my reformatting CD, where's yours? :O -- Posted by drop of rain at 10:08 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Blasphemous Cow at 12:05 pm on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Windows Vista at 9:59 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Blasphemous Cow at 11:56 am on Feb. 18, 2007 If you don't know how, don't. You'll fuck something up. Actually I did it the first time having no idea what so ever what I was doing and it went fine. You are obviously more computer-literate than this person. stfu - im being honest, yes i dont know what to do. thats why im asking. what do i need? how do i go about doing it? have someone else do it? is it gonna cost for someone professionally to do it? -- Posted by Artistic Drain at 10:09 am on Feb. 18, 2007 ...your computer should come with recovery cds. You just need those. -- Posted by Forever Angel at 10:10 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Don't be in such a rush to turn your computer into a brain dead hunk of junk. Before you can reformat, you need to be able to boot it up with some kind of program. If not your OpSys, then a program specifically for formating your hard drive. -- Posted by drop of rain at 10:13 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Forever Angel at 12:10 pm on Feb. 18, 2007 Don't be in such a rush to turn your computer into a brain dead hunk of junk. Before you can reformat, you need to be able to boot it up with some kind of program. If not your OpSys, then a program specifically for formating your hard drive. ok thank you thats what i needed to know. -- Posted by addicted at 10:16 am on Feb. 18, 2007 there is soooo much more to it .... fuck http://www.auldfart.co.uk/format.html use that, i've had to format my computer a lot of times before (my older ones) and realized the pain that comes back in restoring it. -- Posted by Forever Angel at 10:22 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from drop of rain at 12:13 pm on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Forever Angel at 12:10 pm on Feb. 18, 2007 Don't be in such a rush to turn your computer into a brain dead hunk of junk. Before you can reformat, you need to be able to boot it up with some kind of program. If not your OpSys, then a program specifically for formating your hard drive.     ok thank you thats what i needed to know. Do you have all the software CD's necessary to restore your programs once you get it reformatted? -- Posted by addicted at 10:40 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Forever Angel at 10:22 am on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from drop of rain at 12:13 pm on Feb. 18, 2007 Quote: from Forever Angel at 12:10 pm on Feb. 18, 2007 Don't be in such a rush to turn your computer into a brain dead hunk of junk. Before you can reformat, you need to be able to boot it up with some kind of program. If not your OpSys, then a program specifically for formating your hard drive.         ok thank you thats what i needed to know. Do you have all the software CD's necessary to restore your programs once you get it reformatted? like drivers... drivers for your mouse your monitor your keyboard printer scanner sound card video card modem webcam etc... -- Posted by Than Tan at 12:49 am on Feb. 23, 2007 There are 2 ways of formatting a computer. One is if you're running on Windows XP, the CD of Windows XP contains a menu where you can reformat a computer. Two is go to MS-DOS and type "format" then the drive of your hard disk...