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..in my Idiots computer basic book. I need to know how I clean my system completely out. I have ran reformat and recovery on it a couple times now and I still have one slight glitch with my IE6 and some sites giving me an error message saying that my IE can't link to that website. I mean come on .. it's pogo.com. All I want to do is play a game and I can't get in dam it.

I know this program that came with the computer isn't cleaning it out to it's original content because if it was I don't see how the HP registration could remember my details as far as name ect ect ect. And if the problem isn't with my computer and it's with my IE at least if I can strip this baby down to the original content I will feel much better anyway knowing it's not this beast on my desk doing it to me.

pop in your windows xp setup disc and during the install, it should ask you whether or not to format the whole thing.

After that, use Mozilla instead of IE. That will make your life much easier and less stressful too! :D

Okay .... thanks. Collecting this info now. What about if I don't have XP? I suppose I may as well consider myself doomed if I tell you I have Windows Me, right?

i dont know if the windows ME installer will give you an option to format or not.

if not, you will have to format the drive from DOS and then install winME over it.

Yesssss ... this the answer I am searching for . You know how to do that? Can you find simple words to tell me? :icare: Begs!

there are many things that can go wrong with this method, so i wouldnt suggest it unless u knew what you were doing and are willing to take the risks.

go to www.bootdisk.com and downoad a windows98 bootdisk (this is assuming that you are on a fat32 partition).

put the disk in and then reboot the pc.

it should take you to a dos prompt.

now, do a "format c:"

this will erase EVERYTHING from the C drive.

now, pop in the cdrom drive and then boot up into the windows ME install.

What if I already have a windows 98 disk? Can I use it or would it be better to download it?

if you have a win98 bootdisk, it will be the same as the one i linked to. so, just use the one you have.

Thanks dude.. Be trying this here a little later so I hope to see ya in couple days . If you don't see me .. scream for me. I think I will be okay tho. Appriciate it.

Good luck! (won't be seeing her for a few weeks... ;))

The program with Format and Recover, using the origional OEM disk, is that you're installing the crap version of ME along with all of the origional crap presets that the OEM is aksing for.

Now, to fix your problem, I don't know why you would format your harddrive. Rarely, there are problems that require you to format, and I'm wondering if you had one of these problems.

What made you want to format in the beginning?

-SF