TRY LOOKING FOR A RESET BUTTON or FUNCTION ON YOUR COMP !! that might do the trick !!?!! But depending on the model & year of your comp. You might want to contact a comp tech online !?! Or on your own time by way of phone !?! G/L~!!! rRr
To format your hard drive partition which has the windows file can only be formated using a boot cd like the one to install your os.
My Dell has a utility to put everything back to as it was when bought.
I press F11 as it boots and it comes up with a Dell PC Restore menu.
Check in your manual to see if yours has the same. If you have lost the manual you can download one from Dell.
Use the system restore option that is built into Vista.
* Right click on ‘My Computer’ * Click on Advanced System Settings * Select the System Protection Tab * click on the System Restore button
then Vista will guide you through the process for using System Restore, and you would choose the earliest restore point available.
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** Option #2 **
If you prefer to rebuild the computer setup on your own:
* Get a good distribution of a Linux Live CD (Open Solaris, Ubuntu, Slax, etc)
* mount the drive you want to erase with ‘ntfs’ and read/write permissions
* then delete the files from the disk or format (for ntfs) as desired
* the result will be a blank hard drive.
TRY LOOKING FOR A RESET BUTTON or FUNCTION ON YOUR COMP !! that might do the trick !!?!! But depending on the model & year of your comp. You might want to contact a comp tech online !?! Or on your own time by way of phone !?! G/L~!!! rRr
To format your hard drive partition which has the windows file can only be formated using a boot cd like the one to install your os.
My Dell has a utility to put everything back to as it was when bought.
I pressF11 as it boots and it comes up with a Dell PC Restore menu.
Check in your manual to see if yours has the same. If you have lost the manual you can download one from Dell.
Use the system restore option that is built into Vista.
* Right click on ‘My Computer’
* Click on Advanced System Settings
* Select the System Protection Tab
* click on the System Restore button
then Vista will guide you through the process for using System Restore, and you would choose the earliest restore point available.
——
** Option #2 **
If you prefer to rebuild the computer setup on your own:
* Get a good distribution of a Linux Live CD (Open Solaris, Ubuntu, Slax, etc)
* mount the drive you want to erase with ‘ntfs’ and read/write permissions
* then delete the files from the disk or format (for ntfs) as desired
* the result will be a blank hard drive.