Reinstall Win XP without reformatting the hard disk

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• Satellite M115-S3094: how to make a partition without reformatting the HARD drive?

  Hello

  recently bought a laptop Toshiba M115 comes with 80 GB ' SATA drive and XP MEDIA CENTER 2002

  (1) how do I partition without reformatting the drive.

  (2) even if the laptop came with a pre-installed xp. I was wondering what happens if I want to reinstall xp media center, if and when required. Y at - it a disc that I can order (I have the license)... What options of backup kindo f are at - it?

  first time with toshiba... so am new at the mercy of the workings...

  DMM

  Hello

  1.), I use the Partitions Magic 8 to create partitions on the HARD drive.
  This application is very nice and I love it all simply ;)
  You can change the size of the partitions, status and you can fully manage the partitions on the HARD disk. And the best thing is you do not need to format anything B-)

  2.) well, the computer Toshiba laptop are delivered also with the recovery CD. I think that all manufacturers of laptops offers this CD of restoration with own products.
  In any case, on this CD, you'll find Tosh preinstalled operating system drivers.
  If you want to install other OS (XP MCE) you can do it, but you should check if there are drivers that are needed for this OS. But I have XP drivers should also work with thin MCE.

• Reformat the hard disk of the P105-S6114

  I need to reformat the hard drive to my PC by Satellite. I inserted the disc 1, off, turned back on while pressing F12. I chose 'clear the hard disk', and this part of the process went well. It took about 1.5 hours. However, he never asked the other disk. All I get now when I turn it on is a black screen with the letter 'j' in the upper left.

  Can you tell me what to do now to re - install the default software/settings of recovery disks?

  Thank you!

  Jin

  If I understand correctly, you want to reinstall the OS with a recovery disk... In the Bios, set under the 1st boot device cd/dvdrom. Then, insert the diskette and reboot the laptop, according to the instructions on the screen that should start the installation process...
  > It took about 1.5 hours. However, he never asked the other disk. All I get now when I turn it on is a black screen with the letter 'j' in the upper left.

  To be honest, I do not know what that letter, j, means :) BU I know, the 1st recovery disk contains bones with driver and another disc with Toshiba Utilities. Perhaps, you should go to Bios and set hdd under the 1st boot device rather id cd/dvdrom

• Reinstall CS3 Web Standard after the hard disk crash. Serial number, but check the upgrade is a problem - from Mac to PC, so does not match my product calling (Studio MX Mac)

  I'm reinstalling CS3 Web Standard after a hard disk crash. I have my serial number, but after entering, it does a check of upgrade, and at the time wherever I upgraded I also did a single switch from Mac to PC - so my product calling (Studio MX Mac) has a serial number starting with "WSM600"... ", while the upgrade check won't accept - Studio MX Mac is not yet available as an option. This happened once before and I had to work with a representative by phone (I had to click in a hidden part of one of the activation screens to get a number, if I remember correctly), but apparently Adobe that does more. And the page of "www.adobe.com/go/activiation" the phone message directs you to doesn't seem to have an option for this problem either.

  So, what is the replacement or her work around this problem now?

  Hi lkauffman,

  The serial number must be unlocked for activation.

  Please contact customer support.

  You can even join our chat support at http://adobe.ly/yxj0t6

  Kind regards

  Rave

• Reformat the hard disk

  I'm trying to reformat my hard drive with Vista Home on it. I got to the point where it has the drivers and partitions.  I deleted all the until it says unallocated space.  I click on the unallocated space and can't click on the format option.  How can ensure me that my hard drive reformatted completely until I have to reinstall vista.

  Hello

  read this tutorial on how to clean install vista

  the figures used are only an example

  http://www.theeldergeek.com/Vista/vista_clean_installation.html

  	Once determined the type of installation, it's time to decide where to install Vista. As you can see on the screenshot options in this scenario are limited. There is a 20 GB hard drive and it is all unallocated space. If your intention is to return the entire disk in Vista with none of the additional partitions for other uses, all you have to do is click on disk 0, and then click the [next] button. The installation will continue. This is the absolute minimum step. However, if you want to partition the disk and format (unnecessary at this point, but possible), then click on "route Options" for additional choices.
  	This is an example of how you can divide the drive into partitions before continuing the installation. I used the option "New" to create a 10 GB partition in the unallocated space. It will become the primary partition and leave an another 10 GB as unallocated space.
  	This is what it looks like after that initial 20 GB of unallocated space was divided. The first 10 GB of disk space is now identified as Partition 1 and the second 10 GB remains as unallocated space. If you want you can select the remaining unallocated space and use the command [new] to create another partition and can be formatted using the [Format] command. Note that the [Extend] command is also available for use. Clicking on it you will allow to "extend" 1 Partition in the unallocated space. Unlike some programs of partitioning that allow to resize a partition in two directions (more grand/smaller), the command "expand" uses the size of the partition as the minimum size and allows you to increase or "extend" if it includes the unallocated space.

• Reformatting the hard disk (drive clean) but XP pro unable to update windows.

  RELOADED XP pro with SP2 (reformatting, wiped the entire C drive) but can't update via windows update.  It seems that the ActiveX control is loaded, but once an update is attempted I get the error number: 0x8024400A.  I tried several suggestions posted with no luck. I can go online - so it doesn't seem to be a communication error (tried several times after having restarted just in case where).  I do not have a third-party firewall. Computer seems to work very well, but cannot be updated.  Any suggestion would be appreciated.
  Thank you

  Hello

  Have you tried this...

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-windows_update/Windows-Update-error-0x8024400a-on-clean-install/4c79d20d-A4B3-4724-A6D8-4a768559038a

  If you have, you can try to install SP3 standalone downloadable update on...

  http://www.Microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&ID=24

  ... don't worry text indicating this ia a network, it works fine for the stand-alone computers.

  See if you can make updates later if SP3 installs OK.

  Tricky

• Reformat the hard drive and a clean reinstall of Vista

  Hello
  I was wondering if you could advise me if this is possible.
  I have Vista on a partition, a home machine built dual boot (with XP), who begins to fill. I decided to stop using XP, which

  is sitting on the second partition of the hard drive, and I want to reformat the disk and a partition with Vista on it. Taking into

  mind, I'm not bothered about losing all the data and save nothing, in my opinion, I don't want to lose, can I just reformat the hard disk into a single

  Partition and reinstall Vista? I'm sure that the answer is Yes, but my main concern is to ensure my "serial key" is accepted and that the activation

  process will go smoothly. Read other messages I prefer not to use Vista to reduce the size of the XP partition and prefer to make one

  clean install.
  Your help and feedback will be greatly appreciated.

  On Thu, September 16, 2010 08:40:58 + 0000, rainb0wman wrote:

  I was wondering if you could advise me if this is possible. I have Vista on a partition, a home machine built dual boot (with XP), who begins to fill. I decided to stop using XP, which

  is sitting on the second partition of the hard drive, and I want to reformat the disk and a partition with Vista on it. Taking into

  mind, I'm not bothered about losing all the data and save nothing, in my opinion, I don't want to lose, can I just reformat the hard disk into a single

  Partition and reinstall Vista?

  Yes. Do a clean install of Vista and leave this formatting occur
  the first stage of the installation.a

  I'm sure that the answer is Yes, but my main concern is to ensure my "serial key".

  You mean the product key, not series.

  is accepted and that the activation
  process will go smoothly.

  You can reinstall and reactivate as many times as you need or want.
  No problem. Worst case, if it's some time since the last
  activation, you may need to activate by phone call, but it's
  quick and easy.

  Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

• Cannot import Windows Mail 6.0 files after reformatting the hard drive

  Desktop HP of my wife had to be reformatted.  It is under Vista Home Premium.  Email is vesion Windows Mail 6.0.  I exported all the personal files in Windows Mail she wanted, through the export feature.  They are stored on a DVD right now.  The problem is that once I have reformatted the hard disk to the original factory conditions, I can't import files or messages.  The import in the Wizzard options is for Windows Mail (with outlook and Express) 7.  When I choose 7 Mail I get the following error message: "no messages are located in this folder or another application is running that has the required files open.  If I navigate to the actual stored email files on the backup DVD I can open individual emails so that they were saved.  What can I do?

  It is a bit of extra work, but it will do the job.

  • Copy the files from the DVD to the desktop.
  • Open WinMail and create the folders that you need to match those on the desktop.
  • Open a folder on the desktop and you should see all of the messages as .eml files.
  • Select all, then right click on them. Drag the corresponding folder of WinMail and copy here.

  That worked? You can remove the files from office once facts.

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• How can I boot from the Windows 7 Installation CD so that I can reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows 7?

  How can I boot from the Windows 7 Installation CD so that I can reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows 7?  I have already reinstalled Windows 7 from the CD, but that has not solved my problems.  When I put the factory CD in my CD player, it won't always boot from the CD.  When I put my Windows 7 Ultimate CD in the CD drive, it doesn't always start from the CD.         I realize that the reformatting is not always necessary, but I caught a few viruses (despite anti-virus running) and I need to start with a clean hard drive.

  On Friday, January 9, 2015 14:30:32 + 0000, BlueKodak wrote:

  How can I boot from the Windows 7 Installation CD so that I can reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows 7?  I have already reinstalled Windows 7 from the CD, but that has not solved my problems.  When I put the factory CD in my CD player, it won't always boot from the CD.  When I put my Windows 7 Ultimate CD in the CD drive, it doesn't always start from the CD.

  You must go into the BIOS and change the boot on CD order
  first push.

  How to get into your BIOS? It is not dependent on Windows, but on what he
  motherboard/BIOS card that you have. In fact, you need access to the
  BIOS before Windows begins to start. A common method is to press
  the key delete when you turn on first, but this is not necessarily true
  for your computer. Watch the display carefully when you start first;
  There is often a message here to tell you what to do. If this is not the case, check
  your system documentation or check with your provider.

• Had to reinstall my CS3 because of faulty hard drive. It does not accept my serial number as it says it is already used the maximum number of activations and says I should turn off. I can't as the hard disk failed! Please help.

  Had to reinstall my CS3 because of faulty hard drive. It does not accept my serial number as it says it is already used the maximum number of activations and says I should turn off. I can't as the hard disk failed! Please help.

  Have already tried to contact Adobe and they told me to reinstall the program. I did this and the same issue. It's crazy. I can not turn off something that I did not more...

  Thank you.

  No - I had, of course, tried all these things. Finally, I had someone (after several days) on the personal chat group that could fix and it did it in a few minutes. Too bad that nobody else seemed to be able to do. Adobe is very soft.

  I can't thank enough the other person - it was amazing.

• Why the hard disk is divided into partitions of two data (C:Vista and E: Data)?

  I just started a new A200-1V0 and found that disk space is divided into two partitions of sizes equal 'C:Vista' and ' E: Data "(and a small one EISA).

  WHY? What is the logic and purpose? It's not even as if the C:Vista partition is smaller and intended only to the tricks of the 'system' as the root 'Users' (user Documents) is on it also.

  This is the default for Vista (my first use of it), if not, who said that Toshiba could do this without asking me?

  How can I move the root 'Users' in Vista (in the data partition) - if I have two partitions that I might as well use it?

  I can resize partitions in Vista without a utility 3 rd-party (or a complete backup/restore)?

  Thank you

  Hello just YOU

  Please don't be offended because there is no reason for this. You bought the new product with the factory settings. Toshiba and other hardware manufacturer do not know every customer personally and, unfortunately, it was not possible to ask YOU how to set up YOUR laptop.

  Because of this, there is a recovery of product support that allows to configure the HARD disk according to your wishes and needs.

  Please use this DVD and install OS how you want it to be. What recovery procedure starts, you will see CONFIGURATION option on the right side. Click on it and choose the right option.

  Reinstall the OS and enjoy your life. Really, I don't have the time to write on the floors of two partitions, because this is basic stuff and you probably don't want to waste your time to read this.

  Bye and good luck!

• came loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. Recently, I reformatted the hard drive and did a clean installation of Windows 7 Professional. I have no games. No solitaire, Minesweeper, no nothing.

  original title: lack of games
  I have an Acer Aspire PC. It came loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. Recently, I reformatted the hard drive and did a clean installation of Windows 7 Professional.

  I have no games. No solitaire, Minesweeper, no nothing.
  How can I, without seeking to erase and reinstall again?

  To activate the built-in Windows 7 games:

  1. click on Start (lower-left) and then on Control Panel.

  2. click on programs and features.

  3. on the left side of the screen, click on 'Windows turn features on or off".

  4. find the entry called games & check the box next to it.

  5. click on OK.

  6 reset.

  If the games box is already checked, uncheck the box , click OK, restart, then do steps 1-6 above.

• How to reformat the hard drive and do a "clean" install

  A recent virus attack, my computer has lost some files of the operating system.  With the help of the Lim has provided the recovery disk, which offered ' upgrade/repair' or a 'new installation '.  I chose ' install new ', actually I found many of my files are still there - that means that if a virus has escaped "Detection / removal" will always be there.

  Question: How to reformat the hard drive and do a 'fresh install' on a clean hard disk "? ". (I have a drive to Win XP with service pack 3 and a driver disk for the hardware installed on my computer of the regulations.)

  Thanks in advance

  Skip

  Since you have a Dell and a recovery CD and not a recovery Partition, check how many partitions you need by using disk management:

  http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_management.htm

  In case you have a partition with the operating system and a partition of the utility partition, I would only recommend formatting the partition from the OS. The Partition utility can be very useful.

• Can't reformat the hard drive

  Hello I do not know much about computers.  I'm trying to find a way to reformat the hard drive on my son computer for a clean installation of XP Pro.  Initially, XP Pro SP1 has been installed on my IBM Thinkpad.  I have automatic updates must occur on the computer so over time, the service pack has been upgraded to SP3.  The corruption of the computer does not restore system, internet access and several programs running on the device.  When I try to format the hard disk with my XP Pro SP1 disk fails because the system is currently running SP3.  I tried to uninstall SP3, but the system does not.
  What do other options I have order of the reformat the system drive.
   
  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
   

  Hi Rrmay,

  Thanks for posting. If you try to reinstall XP you can put your OS drive on your computer, or use the OEM recovery media to reinstall XP.

  PERFORMING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING STEPS WILL ERASE ALL DATA IN CUSTODY: PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A BACKUP BEFORE CONTINUING.

  The OEM recovery media format the computer and automatically return to the plant as if it was when you first it lit. If you have XP software at retail, you can do the following to format and reinstall.

  Method 1: Perform a clean install of Windows XP, a new installation is to remove all data from your hard disk by repartitioning and reformatting your hard disk and reinstall the operating system and programs empty (clean) hard disk. For more information about important things to consider before you partition and format your hard disk and how to partition and format your hard disk by using the Windows XP Setup program, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  313348 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348/) how to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP

  To perform a new installation of Windows XP, follow these steps:

  1. Back up all important information before you perform a new installation of Windows XP. Save the backup to an external location, such as a CD or external hard drive.
  2. Start your computer from the Windows XP CD. To do this, insert the Windows XP CD into your CD or DVD and then reboot your computer.

     Note To boot from the Windows XP CD, your computer BIOS settings must be configured to do this.

  3. When you see the message "Press any key to boot from CD", press any key to start the computer from the Windows XP CD.
  4. In the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to start Windows XP Setup.
  5. Read the Microsoft software license agreement, and then press F8.
  6. Follow the instructions on the screen to select and format a partition where you want to install Windows XP.
  7. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation of Windows XP.

  I hope this helps! Let us know if you have any questions.

  Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think

• When installing a new operating system isn't automatically wipe the hard disk, create a new partition, and then install the operating system?

  Have a Dell system, caught a virus and it has really messed up the PC. Recently, it got worse so I tried to reinstall the operating system with the Dell disks. It wouldn't work. So I bought for Windows 7 Professional, it will not be installed. My first question when installing a new operating system isn't automatically wipe the hard disk, create a new partition, and then install the operating system? Because this does the same as the Dell disks, is to take what is on the hard drive and put it in a folder called windows old, is not formatting the HD. When I boot the disk, it shows the installation of files then open windows and start the installation. Before he could finish I get an error missing or corrupted files. Tried several times now, windows will still not open. Any suggestions? Once while trying to install the pc crashed with a blue screen which is one of the reasons why I have reinstall the OS, he started to plant a few times. I don't remember all the details on my PC, but its 4 years, triple core coprocessors, ram 8 GB, 500 GB HD. At the same time just after all this started in Jan. I had also improved my 3 GB to 8 GB memory. I bought the Dell memory for my system. Since the crash, could there be a problem with these new memory chips? Last night I tried to disassemble each and reinstalling it, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. Before I tried to reinstall the operating system, the pc was see the concert 8.

  Original title: used to install Windows 7

  Disconnect any other (additional) internal hard drives and external USB devices.
  Look for any loose hard drive power or cables SATA, graphics card or other power cables.

  First run Memtest86 +:
  It runs from a floppy disk or CD and should eliminate or confirm if one or more of your memory
  sticks are bad or the values of the SPD in the BIOS are correct.
  Let it run for as long as you can: 2,4,6,8 or several hours (at least 3 full passes), so no errors at that time then your ram is OK.
  http://www.memtest.org/
  Memtest86 + Guide/How To (use the.) ISO to create a bootable CD)
  http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=409152

  Hard drive test:
  If you do not know your readers of the brand and model, try "Speccy",.
  It provides information from the computer/system in detail:
  OS, CPU, RAM, motherboard, graphics, Hard Drive, optical, Audio, peripherals, network.
  Note: Option RAM indicates number of slots, DRAM Timing.
  Works your memory speed (frequency). The nominal frequency of your memory.
  http://www.Piriform.com/Speccy

  Test your player - create a Bootable CD:
  Ranging from 5 to 25% (depending on the make and model) new hard disks are defective.
  Note: Reliability of the drive hard has come the way down over the last 24 months and improved a bit lately according to manufacturing.

  Test your drive with the car manufacture utility.
  If you have a new hard drive Seagate the very next thing would be to download Seagate Seatools
  (bootable CD) and check bad sectors.
  SeaTools for information: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
  SeaTools for Windows download: http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/saturn/seatools-win-master/
  SeaTools for DOS download:
  http://www.Seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/LD25-series/SeaTools-DOS-master/

  For Western Digital readers to download the .iso from WdDiag file: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=611&sid=30&lang=en

  Samsung Estool: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/ES_Tool.html
  Samsung Disk Manager software: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

  Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Software: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
  Diagnostic tool available for use by customers who believe that having a brand Toshiba Fujitsu hard drive:
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesandSupport/WarrantySupport/SoftwareUtilities

  Notice of Fujitsu drive management utility: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/

  Toshiba CD bootable: (BACK Diagnostic Tool version 7.0 for IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks)
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesSupport/FujitsuDrivesUSandCanada/SoftwareUtilities#diagnostic

  Also check Home Edition free Partition Wizard option "Test of disc surface":
  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com