Reformatting

[razorbubble]

I'm not what is happening to my computer, but it is annoying the **** out of me, so I was thinking of reformatting my HD, and reinstall everything on again. The only problem is that, since it is a laptop, would I lost most of the drivers needed for a laptop, such as the shortcut buttons attached to the casing, like volume control and the battery?

If there is no problem with that, how would I reformat my computer, when I don't have a floppy drive, since I can't reformat when I am already in my OS. Thx.

 

[Nick]

nooo, those buttons are controlled by Windows so formatting wont do anything to them, do you not have your XP disk? If not then you will not be able to do a clean install of Windows unless you pruchase one

 

[Kharn]

also drivers are normally available on the manufactures web sight and also they should be on the supporting utility disk that came with the laptop.

 

[razorbubble]

Yes. I do have my windows XP disc.

 

[Nick]

enter your BIOS and set the cd drive to boot first, pop the disk into the drive and boot into it, from the XP setup you can format then do a clean install of Windows

 

[razorbubble]

Okay, thx.