a procedure to follow to save my HDD to format c:

This should be simple for someone, but not for me.

My pc guard stop for no apparent reason.  I thought that it might be a virus.  If I formatted the hard drive that would help to solve my problem?  What is the right way to save my hard drive, so I can format it then and then perform a new installation?
Thank you

On Saturday, May 19, 2012 20:56:21 + 0000, Ubee wrote:

This should be simple for someone, but not for me.

My pc guard stop for no apparent reason.  I thought that it might be a virus.  If I formatted the hard drive that would help to solve my problem?  What is the right way to save my hard drive, so I can format it then and then perform a new installation?

Number of points:

1 would it be a virus? Yes but it is unlikely.

2. it is more likely to be a hardware problem. For example,.
overheating.

3. If it is a virus, formatting the hard drive is almost always way
Overkill. A good antivirus program should get rid of it.

4. If it's a hardware problem after formatting the drive, you will need to
still have the problem.

5. it is my belief that this erroneous notion that you have to reformat
comes from the technical support people in most of the major OEMs.
Their solution to almost any problem, they can't quickly the
answer to is "reformat and reinstall. It is the ideal solution for
them. It gets you the phone is off quickly, it almost always works, and
It does not need to do any real troubleshooting (a skill which)
most of them obviously does not in any great degree).

But it leaves you with all the work and all the problems. You have to
restore all backups of your data, you need to reinstall all your
programs, you must reinstall all Windows and application
updates, you must locate and install all the drivers needed to
your system, you must recustomize Windows and all your applications to work
the way you are comfortable with.

In addition to all these things being long and painful, you can
have trouble with some of them: you will find all your CDs application?
You will find all the necessary installation codes? Do you have any data
backups to restore? Do you remember yet all customizations and
tweaks can be installed to make everything work the way that you
as? Sometimes there are problems that are so difficult to solve
that Windows has to be reinstalled properly. But they are few and far
between the two; resettlement should not be a substitute to the
Troubleshooting; It should be a last resort, to be made only after all
troubleshooting by qualified person other attempts have failed.
And perhaps most important: If you reformat and reinstall without
Discover what has caused your problem (even if it is not material), you
will most likely repeat the behavior that caused it and quickly find
yourself in exactly the same situation.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

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