Widnows is messed up...URGENT

Crossy · 1 Feb 2007 at 18:57

Hi there, my windows on my other pc has just had a dump on me and crashes at various time during the laoding. what i wanna know is how do i totally reformat the hard drive. I have 2 partitions but only by mistake last time i accidnetly pulled out a cable. so i wanna delete the whole lot and starta agin! Again wanna guide me through it. And this is kinda urgent!

wormvortex · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:03

just insert the windows disc and follow the on screen instructions. If you have xp it is next to impossible to No swearing! up

LoadsaMoney · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:04

Sweary

Crossy · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:05

ok ive found a link and followed it by deleting the current partitions and now its reformatting...the disc is scratchedf to **** so i hope to god it bloody works!...wish me luck!

Crossy · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:35

OK its been formatting a partition and its sitting on 100% and it has for about 5 minutes already does it usually take as long or has it crashed?

Crossy · 1 Feb 2007 at 20:34

Please someone help me it couldnt format the partition and it also couldnt delete it...what am i to do..is my Hard drive broken now?!?1 its less than 2 months old!. When i try and renstall windows it freezes on parport.sys while copying files...this doesnt sound to good to me! someone help please!

Jimi · 1 Feb 2007 at 20:40

You could try initializing the disk.

Download Data Lifeguard Tools from the link below and zero/initialize your hard drive.

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

Crossy · 1 Feb 2007 at 20:47

Jimi said:
You could try initializing the disk.

Download Data Lifeguard Tools from the link below and zero/initialize your hard drive.

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

And what does this do?

wormvortex · 1 Feb 2007 at 20:47

Crossy said:
Please someone help me it couldnt format the partition and it also couldnt delete it...what am i to do..is my Hard drive broken now?!?1 its less than 2 months old!. When i try and renstall windows it freezes on parport.sys while copying files...this doesnt sound to good to me! someone help please!

sure its not the disc? you said it was heavily scratched

Crossy · 1 Feb 2007 at 21:15

Im going to use a different disc to see if it was the disc but if its the hard drive its only 2 month old. What are Overclockers like for RMA'ing hard drives?

mtbaker · 1 Feb 2007 at 21:24

If the system is crashing randomly it might be an issue with the memory not the disk. Had the same problem a few days ago where windows would randomly crash and i couldnt re-install cuz it kept comming up with Random errors and locking up. Turned out to be a borked memory module.

Jimi · 1 Feb 2007 at 21:28

Crossy said:
And what does this do?

It completely formats your hard drive by turning all the one's to zero's.