Windows XP Home Edition users... help needed.

chaoticstormbringer · Post by **chaoticstormbringer** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:11 pm

Hey how am I to format my C drive?
I've been getting like major faults lately when I try to like open a program or close it etc, and them my computer like shuts down on me automatically and recovers from fatal or serious errors...

Now I've heard the best way to get rid of this was to format my hardrive, but unfortunately... it keeps saying that disk utilities are open when I have absolutely nothing on the screen apart from that format box.

Need major help here, be greatly appreciated.
And is there any way to like back up hard drives in the future instead of using those stupid restore points? because if my hard drive breaks down theres going to be no more restores on it so... yeah.

I would ghost my machine but my winxp doesn't seem to cooperate with DOS too well. Anyway there are my questions, I hope you guys can help.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:39 pm

Format and reinstall, eh?

You could try making a Windows XP <a href="http://www.pornstarguru.com/page.php?x= ... ootdisk</a>, booting to a command prompt, and formatting from there. Of course, I don't use XP, so I'm not quite sure how well the bootdisk works in that regard.

If Windows is telling you it can't format because of other programs, try running MSCONFIG (Start, Run, type in MSCONFIG and hit Enter). Choose Selective Startup, and uncheck Load Startup Items. Click OK and reboot, and try formatting again.

As you probably know, you'll lose all your data on the partitions you format...

As for backing up, get a CD-RW or another hard drive and toss data files you want to save on there. You could also, if you wanted to repartition your drive, make a partition strictly for Windows, and make another for applications and data. You'd have to reinstall your applications and drivers and all that, but it beats losing a lot of data.

chaoticstormbringer · Post by **chaoticstormbringer** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:56 pm

i don't really have anything important apart from my amv collection. So pretty much i've already backed those up. Yeah thanks, I'll be heading to do that in a few hours or so heh.

I'll check out that boot disk too.

chaoticstormbringer · Post by **chaoticstormbringer** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:00 am

and whats with the url dude?

Lucky i checked the properties before I opened it lol.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:18 am

Wah!

Fuckity fuck.

Wrong cut and paste.

Here you go, chappy:

<a href="http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm">h ... isk.htm</a>

chaoticstormbringer · Post by **chaoticstormbringer** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:09 am

you player you

anyway theres like a major problem though. I don't have the original winxp os installation disk. I know the company which i bought the name brand computer but I left that country a while ago and my warranty kind of went down the drain because of it. They have my product key and my disk for win xp... and there is nothing i can do about it -.-

I'm doooomed i tell ya! dooooooomed!

could this day get any worse? *sigh*

I wish I just waited and spent 2k on building my own computer rather than buying an hp invent -.- it was only supposed to be for education crap but i never knew i'd get involved in much much more... heh.

this computer hasn't got long to live I suppose... well its been good on me so far but I still have that twinge it is going to shut down on me. I did a major disk cleanup and defragmentation today so it's running faster.

Oh by the way... is there any way to like... delete toolbars? I got this really annoying toolbar that pops up on internet explorer, which places itself before the home address and it is getting annoying that it comes and goes as it pleases... it calls itself assfrhsbldr

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:11 am

Try a Yahoo search. Or get Ad-Aware and so a spyware/adware scan of your computer with it.

That might actually help fix these errors you've been having.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:13 am

This may not be helpful, but before you do anything that might wipe out your c drive, have you tried a basic system recovery? If the error spawns from something you did - rather than an actual hardware problem - you can turn the settings back without touching anything you've downloaded or created since then - just the settings and formats change back to the original. If you've already tried this, then disregard the post, if you haven't, I'd definitely do that first - it can't hurt anything. And any personal changes you made to the settings can be redone when it's finished.

That toolbar you mention sounds like a problem I got not too long ago, one that was fixed by the recovery method.

chaoticstormbringer · Post by **chaoticstormbringer** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:21 am

a system recovery?
you mean like restore points and stuff?
i'm not wuite sure on that.

Oh and as for lavasoft yeah its not spyware i've done six or seven scans and still no signs. i'll give you what shows up in the address bar.

hmmm it might have been taken out by the disk cleanup... but it was something like wtflu.com or something similar.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 5:19 am

Click on the toolbars or search with them and find out what domain it takes you too. See if you can spot the name of the company, who made the toolbar.

Then goto yahoo and type in '[domain of website] removal' or '[company name] removal'.

You can also goto Tools|Internet Options, hit settings for Temporary Internet files, then hit View Objects. Select them all and delete. Close that window down, hit ok for Temporary Internet Files settings. Then goto the Programs tab and hit "Reset Web Settings. Say Yes. Hit Ok. Close ALL IE windows and relaunch.

This will work sometimes, alot of times those annoying toolbars stick crap in the registry too. Which is why you should try to look up removal instructions.

~klinky