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chrönik04
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when you boot off the recovery disc it should partition your hd and copy over the os as it appeared when you first purchased the pc.
if you want to format the drive first, copy format.com to a startup disk.
if you want to format the drive first, copy format.com to a startup disk.
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if you have a plain OS CD and is bootable then you should just pop that in and format it from there, it gives you the format option just before install
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If you dont have an OS CD see if you can borrow one off a friend and use that to format.
you do not need to format. the recovery cd holds an image of a partition. when you restore the image the partition table and FAT tables are overwritten (also whatever NTFS uses, obviously not FAT). this is essentailly the same as formatting. it works in the same manner as symantec norton ghost or powerquest drive image. in fact many restore CD use ghost.
taken from symantec.com:
the cloning process overwrote the partition table and file allocation tables (FATs) on the source drive, but did not overwrite the data.
The partition table and FAT tables are like a map that tells the computer where to find the pieces of a file. Without the map, DOS and Windows cannot locate the file and the data is unrecoverable. If you can recover the partition table and part or all of the FAT, you might be able to recover part or all of the data.
Data recovery services specialize in recovering data from overwritten and damaged drives. If the destination drive was empty, a data recovery service might be able to recover part or all of your data. If you decide to use a data recovery service, do not use other recovery methods before sending the drive to a data recovery service.
taken from symantec.com:
the cloning process overwrote the partition table and file allocation tables (FATs) on the source drive, but did not overwrite the data.
The partition table and FAT tables are like a map that tells the computer where to find the pieces of a file. Without the map, DOS and Windows cannot locate the file and the data is unrecoverable. If you can recover the partition table and part or all of the FAT, you might be able to recover part or all of the data.
Data recovery services specialize in recovering data from overwritten and damaged drives. If the destination drive was empty, a data recovery service might be able to recover part or all of your data. If you decide to use a data recovery service, do not use other recovery methods before sending the drive to a data recovery service.
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