So as not to bore anyone: my computer has started suffering miserably. I have always had trouble with it, to an extent, but have never convinced myself to completely wipe the drive (the necessary course of action). I am now fed up enough to do just that.
I want to reformat my C drive. I am running XP Home. I was raised on DOS, and without it, I flounder.
So now I'm trying to figure out how to reformat the C: drive under Windows XP Home Edition (which I am told means "horrendous luciferian pain" in latin). Would any kind saint here be able to help me solve this horrible, horrible problem?
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Fennar had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Dos boot disk?
He and I have established this.
But he lacks one. Or he can't find it. Or SOMETHING.
Upgrade XP home, or full version (I.E. when you installed it, did it ask for a win 98/me/2k disk?)?
Second HD? Size if you have one?
Motherboard? Vid Card? Ram? (Everyone asks that. I can too!)
What file system do you want? NTFS or Fat32? I remember a cutoff point where it was more efficient over a certaint gig-age (Neat word.) to simply use NTFS over FAT32. Though NTFS still works on smaller drives, the difference just isnt as pronounced as it would be from a 4 gig drive to a 60 gig drive. I reccomend NTFS, personally.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Delphi Aegis wrote:
Well, we'd need a few answers as you back up system files, configurations, and any files that you'd like to save.. Such as:Upgrade XP home, or full version (I.E. when you installed it, did it ask for a win 98/me/2k disk?)?
Second HD? Size if you have one?
Motherboard? Vid Card? Ram? (Everyone asks that. I can too!)
What file system do you want? NTFS or Fat32? I remember a cutoff point where it was more efficient over a certaint gig-age (Neat word.) to simply use NTFS over FAT32. Though NTFS still works on smaller drives, the difference just isnt as pronounced as it would be from a 4 gig drive to a 60 gig drive. I reccomend NTFS, personally.
I am in tears, but my C drive is reformatting itself.
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Leopold, the Voice of Reason stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Thank you, Maxlis.I am in tears, but my C drive is reformatting itself.
I'm glad I could be of some help. Hope it all runs well dude. I know it's a pain to lose all your files and whatnot off of a drive. Happened to me a few months ago and I still don't have all of the things I had on it back. Heh...
I even held a little ceremony when Equinox bought the farm 
Daedalus is just not as kewl. I WANT E BACK! *cries*
Mine is just a big hunk of metal. 
The laptop's name is "Sweetcheeks"
The older machine's name is "Lag Beest!"
The Router's names are "Outpost 1, and Frontier"
The cable modem is "FUCKER!"
The roomie's computer was named "Gaysauce" but he figured out how to change that.
OH, and the Roomie's other computer.. "Living Room"
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Falaanla Marr Model 2000 was programmed to say:
you people...name your computers?
Whenever you have more than one computer, you find that naming them makes things much easier.
It's easier to say that Lanys is faster than Firiona than to say that the computer on the floor is faster than the one on the desk.
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Drysart had this to say about (_|_):
Whenever you have more than one computer, you find that naming them makes things much easier.It's easier to say that Lanys is faster than Firiona than to say that the computer on the floor is faster than the one on the desk.
Of course. Firiona is a high elf princess type. Lanys is a cast-out Inkie Slut.
who did you think would be faster?
But the easiest method of installing Windows 98 or higher is...
In the BIOS, set the CD-ROM to boot after the floppy and before the hard drive.
Then put in the ME/2K/XP cd and go!
Oh yeah. My PC is : Omega.
My laptop is : Theta [ 05-06-2002: Message edited by: Khyron ]
So MY computer is Spanky. Explained: Wife's son got busted for porn on the original Bug so many times, when Spanky was built we assumed the tradition would carry over. Of course HE doesn't know why it's called Spanky.
My wife's computer is Bug. Explained: The guy that built her first computer years and years ago calls her LadyBug. No idea why.
My stepson's computer is Rooster. Explained: Two-fold meaning... He's cocky. Get it? And I figure he'll never move out.
And when Klez slipped in under virus definitions that had not been updated, and I lost so many of my files... I was pretty upset and sad. A lot of it was irreplacable.
So ... thank goodness for Keenspace, Or there would be no GU archive.
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A sleep deprived MaxlisKudro stammered:
I'm glad I could be of some help. Hope it all runs well dude. I know it's a pain to lose all your files and whatnot off of a drive. Happened to me a few months ago and I still don't have all of the things I had on it back. Heh...
Bah. LAN = love
My p2 300 is my backup bitch. ph00lz.
Plus I don't have millions of gigs of porn to backup, so it's basically just MP3s and My Documents.
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This one time, at Suchii camp:
Daedalus is just not as kewl. I WANT E BACK! *cries*
WUT? See if I ever buy you a computer again!
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Bajah stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
WUT? See if I ever buy you a computer again!
Can I be your boyfriend Bajah? 
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Falaanla Marr had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
you people...name your computers?Mine is just a big hunk of metal.
Of course! This one's Wintermute, Over in the corner is Neuromancer, and I didn't get to name the third, so it's "Bugger".
Heh.
