help please!!!

[Shumway]

vance43211 he's not using the compaq board he's using his new ABIT so the recovery cd's won't work for him,atleast that's what i understand.

 

[killians45]

Well, the recovery partition probably cotains not only the o/s but the drivers and apps that came with the system. You can always back those up and then just wipe everything clean. As far as hard disk drivers, you're probably talking about MBD chipset drivers (IDE interface and what-not), however if you have a OLD hard drive, and I mean real old, they used to contain HDD info on special partitions on the HDD itself (modern HDD keep them in its own internal chipset). You can't really delete those, though, with fdisk because it wont be listed, or if it is would be listed as unknown and would not remove it. The only way to remove this partition is by writing zeros, but I wouldn't recommend that if you have a old drive unless you know the info to enter into the bios (tracks, clusters, etc).

 

[darkwingduck]

vance43211 he's not using the compaq board he's using his new ABIT so the recovery cd's won't work for him,atleast that's what i understand.

yes shumway, your right!!!

 

[darkwingduck]

so so do i wipe my hard drive clean or leave the fat32 partition the way it is??? i dont know that much into hard drives and all that stuff.

 

[vance43211]

yes wipe both partition clean and make them one

 

[darkwingduck]

are u sure, also when i reinstall windows would i still be able to make recovery cd's

 

[vance43211]

no, that recovery cd was for your old motherboard and apps

you would have a serious conflicts if you try it to your new mobo

so just delete it and start over and get new software

 

[darkwingduck]

what new software???? and i meant would my new operating system have a application to make recovery cd's??

 

[darkwingduck]

uhh hello??

 

[Shumway]

This might help you out http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak849.aspx it's supposed to a backup thing for xp

*EDIT*
Go here microsoft shows how to back up all your stuff. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx