How to do a restore to factory settings?

[wayoftheleaf]

Naw they do it for 40 bucks.

Ill do it that and save up for a new comp.

[psychocat]

Buy a copy of XP and just follow the instructions man , it will ask you which drives you want to format.
When you install the CD in your drive it will autoboot and it's simple from there on.

KEEP THE DISK AND CODE SAFE.

[RedLocks]

You people pick things apart like there is no tommorrow. Keeps me on my toes i guess

My computer is from BEFORE they put in that program, and my mother has LOST the disks.

I am going to take it to a computer store and have them drain it and reinstall windows xp and the drivers.


Now here is a new questions.

When I take it to have it drained, will they do it maunally or a machine or a program or what?
either way, will they keep a log of my hard drive?

The main reason I want this computer's hard drive scratched is because my mom had a rather unsavory friend a while back who downloaded limewire and looked up some certain types of videos. I just got on limewire(i use morpheus)and found them. I told mom about them and she said that she let a guy a while back get on the computer at night, and that is the only person she knows that had access to it besides us. I never liked the guy, and he always seemed like a freak to me.
Anyhow, I don't want the cops to be alerted about them if they find them on my hard drive, so I won't take it to a computer store if they do do that. I will just save up my money and buy the disks, or throw the computer in the trash.

I am not going to have my future ruined for what some fucking pervert did on my property, and ill be damned if my mom's ex-husband finds out about it and uses it as an escuse to not allow my sister to live with us.

well now ya know why your keys been sticking bwaaaa

[wayoftheleaf]

I installed a new keyboard as soon as I found out redlocks.

Anyhow....

If a computer store drains your hard drive and reinstalls xp for you, do they keep a log of your hard drive, or do they manually check downloaded files on your hard drive?

[Skink]

I installed a new keyboard as soon as I found out redlocks.

Anyhow....

If a computer store drains your hard drive and reinstalls xp for you, do they keep a log of your hard drive, or do they manually check downloaded files on your hard drive?

the prob you face is the dude seeing it visually... there is no record kept,he eraces the hard drive and installs a OS...
Just delete everything befor U go...

[AlwaysBlazed]

You should have just backed up your computer when you got it, I always forget to but I try because otherwise you have to wait like 2 weeks for recovery CDs to come in the mail (if your computer is under warranty still I believe).

sorry in advance if that made no sense

[invision]

if your that concerned about it log into DOS mode, type C:/Fdisk and follow the directiond and it will wipe your hard drive

[fractur]

It's probably not worth reformatting because of a failed WoW install. Why won't the files delete? 4GB being taken up by nothing is not a normal occurance. Be sure to also empty your recycling bin. Also note that Add/Remove programs does not necessarily report program size correctly, especially if you removed the files manually.