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C: Drive Formatting HELP!!

Jul 3, 2010 7:08PM PDT

Hi, im a complete newbie to the computing industry and I bought an Acer Extensa 5220 about 2 years ago now. And im running out of disk space quickly. I would like completely wipe my C: from anything I have installed myself and hopefully reset it to how it was when I got the laptop, please help?

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Re: drive formatting
Jul 3, 2010 7:18PM PDT

What to do depends on what you've got. You don't tell much, if anything, about that. Studying the user manual and the disks that came with the machine might help.

Generally, the different options are:
1. The machine came with a 'recovery partition' you can boot from; then follow the instructions.
2. The machine came with 'recovery disks' you can boot from; then follow the instructions.
3. The machine came with instructions on how to make your own recovery disks when you first used it and you did. Then see #2.
4. Like #3, but you didn't. Then there might be an option make those disks right now. Should be in the user manual.
5. Non of the above. Then order the disks with Acer.

If you've got more details, post again for more dedicated help.

Kees

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details?
Jul 3, 2010 7:26PM PDT

As i say im new to this so what details do you need?

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Re: details
Jul 3, 2010 7:30PM PDT

The most important one: which of the 5 options I mentioned applies in your case. And: what disks do you have (like system recovery, Vista install, drivers and utilitities)?

Kees