how can you reformat your computer without software?
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borrow the program disk of a friend that has it or tell them to make a copy of it, and DONT BUY FROM SECOND HAND SHOPS. get a cheap one from dell or somat. their cheapest is about £129
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Depends on how drastic you wanna be. Even after formating some data can still be recovered by someone who knows what he/she is doing.\n\nMy Solution:\n1) Boot pc with boot disk.\n2) Use Fdisk to delte partition and recreate it \n3) Use the Format C: /U command (unconditional format)\n4) Bootup with windows XP or 2000 cd and when installing choose format as NTFS partition.\n\nNote: When deleting the current partition and recreating it as either fat or fat32 and afterwards reformating as NTFS it makes it virtualy impossible to do a data recovery on the disk.
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you can just reformat it. put in your operating system cd and restart your computer. the setup program should start and then ask you if you want to repair the os or reformat it. reformat it. if you're not sure, take it to a computer repair shop and i'm sure they can help you.
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the same way as you do it for an internal HD. go to My Computer, right click the drive and select Format.
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format the hard drive, clean install windows
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To reformat a computer, you need to have the original restore discs that came with it- or you will have no files or operating system.  You will also lose anything you added After you began downloading programs that did not come with the computer.\n\nHave you tried to turn it completely off and then restart it?
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*****WAIT do not listen to the knuckle heads telling you to reformat*******\nDo a repair installion and enter your legal key.\nYou go through the initial steps as if you were installing XP, at the Windows XP (Professional, or Home) Setup >press ENTER >Windows Xp Licensing Agreement >press F8 >Windows Xp (Professional, or Home) Setup >press R. This will repair your Windows Xp Installation files, and will not affect your programs, data, etc.
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http://www.novacomputers.net/format.htm  <<that site will give you step by step instructions for formatting and install
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to reformat an external drive\nplug it into your pc\nrigh click on the drive icon\nselect format
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Get hold of CrapCleaner from FileHippo. Its free and it will tidy things its safe to tidy.\n\nYou can also delete restore points and change restore settings to save fewer restore points (or turn off system restore).\n\nIf you don't mind the risk, you can also delete all Windows update uninstallation folders - but do this the right way - they take up 800MB on my PC.
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copy your file in a CD of a floppy. reformat your computer.
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just re-format you hard disk and simply install every thing that you need to you computer. i know it is all day job but hey you will 100% virus free (if there aren't any virus on you installer) :D
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Low level format! It's easy, safe but it takes a long time! :). You can find all sort of software that can do this!
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formatt the whole thing and reinstall windows
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3 Easy steps to a full format\n\n1) BACK UP all relevant information, work, and personal files, a good rule to know what to keep is When in doubt KEEP THE FILE.\n\n2) GET YOUR ORIGINAL RESTORE DISKS find the original disks that came with your system, If you dont have them it´s probably best to go out to your computer dealer BEFORE you format. this is specially important for your video drivers, and other wierd bits.\n\n3) Format (Best if you can do it from the applications directly on your original restore disks) second do it directly from the kernel (Dos) and last but still useful go via windows.\n\nIf you backup first the worst thing that can happen is youll be off line for a couple of days until you bring a new system up to speed.
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all you have to do is hook it up to your computer through the usb port and open up the settings menu and reformat option should be there. Make sure you use the right setting while you reformat it.
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if you have been reformated your PC all your files will be DELETED.. so before you reformat your PC make a BACK-UP to those files that are very IMPORTANT to you..