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How do I format my PC?

How do I format my PC?

This is Puddin by the way..damn blokes, leave the loo seat up, leave themselves signed in....grrr...

:o)

I don't trust you...anyone else?

I normally just put my windows xp disk in my cd drive and then restart the computer and boot of the cd drive, then follow the instructions and at one point it will ask you if you want to format the hard drive. then just let it do it's thing and it will install windows right afterwards.

Older windows Start>Run>"command">fdisk then follow the instructions.
For XP you just put the disk in like previously said.

Chippxero wrote:
> I normally just put my windows xp disk in my cd drive and then restart
> the computer and boot of the cd drive, then follow the instructions
> and at one point it will ask you if you want to format the hard
> drive. then just let it do it's thing and it will install windows
> right afterwards.

Will I lose all pictures and music i've downloaded?

English_Bloke wrote:
> Will I lose all pictures and music i've downloaded?

Yes.

Formatting your computer means basically deleting everything.

and it will get rid of this msn virus thingy?

isn't there a cleaner program for that?

[URL]http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bropia.html[/URL]

"Removal using the W32.Bropia Removal Tool
Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the infections of W32.Bropia. Use this removal tool first, as it is the easiest way to remove this threat."