Tut On How To Format Your Xp Machine

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  1. Abet

    Abet Senior Member

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    nice tut darkstar, and whoever you bought your computer from should have given you a copy of winxp unless you got it on refurbishment, which is usually get a disk from your friend or somebody who has original copy and the do the steps and also you can choose which hd if you have two, like stated above C is usually the main one and i think d is the slave one.

    somebody should pin this IMHO
     
  2. 5dowN

    5dowN Well-Known Member

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    is it just me or my eyes that the text turns pink....:huh:



    btw i use windows media center edition XP


    is that different?
     
  3. .DeFuZioN

    .DeFuZioN Well-Known Member

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    no for win mce its the same.
     
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    nice guide....should come in handy pretty soon.
     
  5. XMasterX

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    I already did this countless times, but you should add in there that NTFS (quick) is alot quicker than the standard format...

    actually, NTFS is for any size hard drive. at this refurb place where i volunteer, we put 6-10gb drives in the computer, and when we put Win 2000 on them, we use NTFS... it has better secority then FAT32...
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    I suggest creating two partitions so you can backup data more easily, it helps alot for many things.
     
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    you could easily have 2 or one external drive... fixes everything..

    or have 2 sata drives mirror each other...
     
  8. -=DaRKSTaR=-

    -=DaRKSTaR=- Senior Member

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    LOL ye its just you :D nah me jkin ;)

    Well ive seen across the internet that HD lower than 32ishGB use FAT32 and over is NTFS

    Well dont matta ;) The tutorial is not bad for my first go ^_^
     
  9. xlink

    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    multiple partitions is always nice though. I have my swap partition on my windows HDD and my pagefiling partition on my linux HDD and I have all my music on my linux HDD and windows HDD and my games are divded between the two being on the opposite HDD as the OS they are for... helps keep load time lower
     
  10. DiabloDj1

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    Whats the difference between NTFS and NTFS (quick) besides the 2nd being faster?
    There's gotta be something..if there wasnt they would leave you the standard option :P
     
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    ^ Maybe it is more stable if you do it the normal way.
     
  12. DiabloDj1

    DiabloDj1 Well-Known Member

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    Thats what I was thinking..more stable or effecient or whatever..I'll just go with standard...
    How long does it take anyway?
     
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    nice guide, but there's one thing yo should've added... for the complete noobs --> PRINT THIS BEFORE YOU FORMAT!!!! :lol:

    You might be laughing now, but you wouldn't be the first one to do something like this...
     
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    The time will depend on how much stuff is on your hard drive.
     
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    it's the same, it just formats it faster. it does not lower quality. I believe you can not do that with a brand new drive. you had to have a partition on there previously to do thw quick version. the data has already been formatted, so it just writes over that stuff, instead of creating all new partition(s).
     

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