StuartMW
Who Is John Galt?
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join:2000-08-06
Austin, TX
|  Erase the HD and start anew
I'm not an average computer user or purchaser so I've always erased the HD of any new machine I've bought and reinstalled the stuff I want from the supplied CD's (if any). With a few exceptions the "free" software provided with most new machines is pretty useless IMO (crippled, time-limited, not upgradable).
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL | Format C...oh I love it when they talk dirty like that |
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richk_1957
If ..Then..Else
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join:2001-04-11
Minas Tirith
| We all know formatting doesn't remove everything [in this case it might not make a difference]. One of them, boots & runs off a CD or Floppy and really erases everything [of course, this can take a couple hours], so that when you go to install windows, you get the message 'Setup has detected you are using a factory fresh hard drive.....':) |
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