System Reboot

[ATK]

Well, my computer currently has some serious problems and I want to reboot it. Not like restore it to a previous point, but clean the entire computer out and start from scratch. When ever I call up for help, the company says I have to pay $90 for them to go through the process. So I was thinking maybe some one here can help me.

I have a Dell 2400 dektop comp with Windows XP home Edition. If you need any specs just ask.

[miffymiffmiff]

The only thing I could suggest is buying a new PC...or using a magnet on your hard drive lol

 

What is the reason for this 'reboot' if I could ask...

[Wolf68k]

Reboot = restarting the computer, like a automated shutdown and start up

 

What you want to do is recover. Dell should have included a system recovery disc. You need to put that disc in the CD or DVD drive. After that I have no idea what steps need to be taken to do a system recovery.

[holdenrulz]

I don't know but he sounds like he want to reformat, can you clarify ATK do you want to delete everything off your computer and reinstall or do you just want to clean out your computer to regain some space. Edited December 12, 2005 by holdenrulz

[GTA3Freak-2001]

Your recovery disc should give you all the options to bring your PC back to how it was when you bought it, which is a good and bad thing since I know companies like Dell love to put some useless and uneeded programs on their PC's.

[ATK]

can you clarify ATK do you want to delete everything off your computer and reinstall or do you just want to clean out your computer to regain some space

I want to restart my entire computer so it is back the way it was when I bought it because there are so many things on my computer I dont need and I only have like 200mb of space left.

 

 

Your recovery disc should give you all the options to bring your PC back to how it was when you bought it, which is a good and bad thing since I know companies like Dell love to put some useless and uneeded programs on their PC's.

My father actually alredy did this like a month ago, but it just brought more problems to my pc. Insted of erasing every program of the pc and reinstalling the computer, it just put all the origional programs on the computer. Like now I use a browser called maxathon because internet explorer got messed up, then I downloaded firefox, but that became corrupt not to soon after. So now my maxathon works fine, but I get pop ups from the internet explorer, which dosent even work.

Edited December 12, 2005 by ATK

[Xyzar]

<!-- if you want to start out with a fresh install of windows simply pop in a windows install CD, delete your current partitions and create new ones. then install

you'lllose all your files though, i assume you probably want to save your music and whatever

do you have multiple partiotions? in that case you can simply delete and recreate your windows partition.

if you don't, i guess you'll have to backup all your stuff somewhere (like, on cd's, dvd's, another hard drive, whatever) and copy them all back to your PC after reinstalling it -->