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I would like to reformat my hard drive on my custom built computer, I know
that it is not recommended, however, I'm going to anyways because I have the
time (spring break boredom).
Anyways, my friend and I built the thing (well, he did mostly), and I am
uncertain of my abilities to reformat it successfully without him. From my
understanding after I reformat it and reinstall XP I will also need to load
all of the driver disks and such. Because when we first booted it up he
installed all of the motherboard cd's and drivers before installing windows.
So, if I reformat my drive, won't it be deleting all of those drivers and
such?
So I guess what I'm asking is, do I need to do anything extra special since
my computer is a custom built one, or should I follow all of the other
suggestions posted on websites and this newsgroup?
Thanks a lot
I would like to reformat my hard drive on my custom built computer, I know
that it is not recommended, however, I'm going to anyways because I have the
time (spring break boredom).
Anyways, my friend and I built the thing (well, he did mostly), and I am
uncertain of my abilities to reformat it successfully without him. From my
understanding after I reformat it and reinstall XP I will also need to load
all of the driver disks and such. Because when we first booted it up he
installed all of the motherboard cd's and drivers before installing windows.
So, if I reformat my drive, won't it be deleting all of those drivers and
such?
So I guess what I'm asking is, do I need to do anything extra special since
my computer is a custom built one, or should I follow all of the other
suggestions posted on websites and this newsgroup?
Thanks a lot