Re format?

will-he-payitoff

Want to format my C drive to remove all the rubbish on it that I cannot delete.
Its an HP desktop running XP, I don't have the original driver discs that came with it, but I have a set of recovery discs. Will these be ok?
Anything else I need to back up before I format?

nomoneytoday

Should be fine. I would backup your documents, letters, programs, pictures etc before doing it though

espresso

Sledge hammer to crack a nut! What can't you delete?

will-he-payitoff

espresso wrote: »

Sledge hammer to crack a nut! What can't you delete?

Dont know I have about 15GB of stuff? only got Xp office, printers, I.E., camera software. So what the rest is I have no idea.
Also computer runs a lot slower than when new even after adding 2Gig of ram.

Unstoppable_2

espresso wrote: »

Sledge hammer to crack a nut!

Not necessarily. I've just done a format and reinstall of a 2 year old Vista installation that's been subject to all kinds of software adding, removing, patching, partition resizing as I like playing around with BETAs and Linux. It's far quicker than it was, now booting up in 30 seconds instead of a minute and 30 seconds and the whole system is more responsive.

robredz

Make sure you only reformat the c drive there is usually a hidden partition on the HDD holding the install files used by the rescue disks. so be careful if you use FDISK.

jasonwatkins

espresso wrote: »

Sledge hammer to crack a nut! What can't you delete?

if you've reformatted as many times as I have, it actually ends up being quicker to do that rather than searching out and deleting stuff you don't want.