Gear Head

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Had my fujitsu siemens amilo laptop for a year now and I feel it needs a reinstall.

Recently, I am able to use certain programs such as limewire, view live timing on the f1 website and I also get a message on start up saying something like 'tweakxyz is unable to load'??

Have done reinstalls on my old pc's, but i'm a little nervous about it this time. I've got all the recovery and driver disks, I have saved all my files so I am ready to go. However, I am unable to locate to a 'dos' screen to run fdsik and reformate my hard-drive. If I just follow the on-screen instructions from my recovery cd, it just wants to over-write the original install of windows??

Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated!

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

If it's a recovery Cd then the best way would be to just let it run its course and reinstall everything.

If its a XP cd you can delete and create partitions from within its setup. XP no longer runs on DOS so booting to command prompt as in the good old days isn't a good move. Fdisk etc are out of date now

Just use the destructive recovery and you'll be good to go.

mike1210

TweakHound - The Right Way To Install Windows XP

make sure everything is backed up then use the above as a guide for the xp cd

recovery cd should re load drivers and the like as well

Gear Head

iTrader: (2)

Thanks for the info guys. But, the 'recovery' cd, not xp cd, warns me of installing ontop of a previous installation, but gives me no option to do anything else. I can 'delete' the original partition from within setup??
I don't want to do that though just incase I can't create another and format it.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

Just run the recovery and see where it goes.

Failing that download a bootable torrent of XP and install that, you can then partition the drive and then use the recovery CD to put your legal version on.