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Posted on 04-18-05 06:57 PM Link | Quote
Well im over here fixing it, and Im having a problem.
When starting up it goes through about a 10 minute, "Prepareing your files...this may take a few minutes" thing that im sure has something to do with it thinking its installing.

I may have to format, and i really want to, but I unfortunatly dont want to do it and screw something up...Now I have the recovery disks, but that doesent help i believe cuase there not install disks, right? I cant seem to find the Windows disk, so more on that later. Also, Im a little shakey on formating, and im not really sure if i know how to do it or not. I believe i do, but i dont want to risk it.

By the way it is a Windows ME Edition, HP Pavilon, AuthenticAMD, AMD Duron Processor, (oddly numbered) 120 MB Ram.

Really all i need to know is how to format this thing correctly, and reinstall windows, but i would also like to know to what the startup problem is for maybe future refrense if it happens again and theres a way to fix it. Thanks in advance guys! I know you can help me!
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Posted on 04-18-05 08:26 PM Link | Quote
Are you sure that you want to reinstall Windows?

A lot of OEMs just give you recovery discs, because it's cheaper than the Windows install disc. So, pop that in and you should have instructions on restoring it to a factory state.


About the 120MB of RAM, it probably has integrated video, and it's using 8MB of the RAM for video memory.
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Posted on 04-19-05 01:04 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FreeDOS
A lot of OEMs just give you recovery discs, because it's cheaper than the Windows install disc. So, pop that in and you should have instructions on restoring it to a factory state.
Recovery discs from computer companies frag whatever is on the HD by formatting it so using it will take care of it for you without worrying about messing up

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