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But if I format it'll erase ALL my stuff right?

Maybe I should burn all my shit on a CD.

Hell I haven't even EVER formatted..so I dunno even how to do it.

Yeah okay on a more serious note, You should considering formatting if this doesnt work, and just start of clean. I'd give it a few days of asking around first tho, trying different things, Im trying to think of a way.....

Yeah.

All these shitty problems ALWAYS happen to me. Things that people have never heard of before..

I'm sure Red Lotus appreciates your compassion . But I'm thinking that may work; of course our line of thinking here may be renedered moot if Lotus posts back that he tried it and it didn't work at all. Then I don't know what we're going to do for him.

Yes , formatting erases your entire hard drive, and you'll end up with nothing on it.. before you do it though make sure you have a boot disk for your current OS, theres an option inside of windows to make one if you dont have one, if its windows you're running???

With that kind of luck you could make a killing as a QA tester for a game company .

my life sucks

Yes indeed, he'd need a hell of a lot of those stress balls that you squeeze if you're frustrated tho

So go through the steps of a format. I want to know how to do it and what I need to do it.

First of all , Id recommend backing up all o the stuff you dont already have on cd, so dont backup other installed game files n stuff, maybe saved games folders, I duno... just miscelaneous stuff youve downloaded or gotten some other way.

After that, tell me what OS you have

Yeah I'm gonna back up everything I can.

I'm running Windows 98 SE

I don't mean to butte in but take some time before you try to reformat.Say 20 to 30 minutes, flinfman or some body else might come up with something.IMHO.

[This message has been edited by Weasel (edited 12-26-2000).]

I'm not gonna format YET..I just want to know how so I can when there's nothing else to do.

If you have a zip drive back everything up, mp3s, porn, save games, anything you have that you want. I always save the .exe files for programs like AOLIM or ICQ so if you have those save them too. Then locate all the drivers for all the hardware on your system; you may not need them but best to have them all. I'd do an unconditional uninstall first, which effectively zeroes your machine out, then reinstall. But in that case you'd have to reinstall all the drivers in oredr: motherboard, windows, video card, sound card, everything else; which takes hours to do. Did that a few weeks ago and it sucks. I'm not sure how it started though so if you have a restore disk you may try that instead.

YEah thats what I said
to wait with it a few days...
but he just wants to know how to dó it
alright so what OS are you running?

and I'm working on it Weasel. Red Lotus, don't you dare reformat anything until we give you the okay. There has to be a better way out of this. I'm just saying what all you should have on hand in case we come up blank.

Yes I know..I'm not gonna format until I know there's nothing left. I'm not stupid you know.

if you can hold on for a couple hours more I have a way out of it but I need to call someone who's not here right now. currently I'm at work and I'll get out of here in two hours; I can post up their response about 2 and a half hours from now. Can you wait until then?

Originally posted by flinfman:
if you can hold on for a couple hours more I have a way out of it but I need to call someone who's not here right now. currently I'm at work and I'll get out of here in two hours; I can post up their response about 2 and a half hours from now. Can you wait until then?

SURE! Wow you are so kind your actually troubling yourself to help me? Man I love you. I love you so much. Will you have my kids?