pan6467

Ok so, I have 2 puters now and 1 had xp gamers on it but froze to the point where I could do nothing. So I installed XP and being the idiot I am partitioned the old OS in. So the new one has 4GB in the hard drive and the old is eating up 76. I want to totally clean the hard drive and just start over how can I do this?

Format won't work, it won't let me just install xp again (error 5)

cmd// del*.* won't do it (or whatever that's along the lines of what my son did.

I can't F anything when it starts...

Can someone help me here? I get internet great but .....

On my other puter the power keeps going off. Usually I can just start it right up again but sometimes.. may take up to an hour or 2. It looks like it may be fried totally now? I know this is probably an obvious question, but does that sound like a bad power supply and I should just replace it OR could it have been a virus. There are absolutely no other problems on that one except for the power.

I appreciate any and all help..... thank you.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"