Old Hippie Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Everytime I reinstalled Windows, I had to reinstall everything, and lost everything on the computer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goong_Ski Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Yes, you can format the single partition without having to format the whole hard-drive. side note: Many viruses are spread not by running and .exe file but just from visiting an infected website. Make sure you run Spybot "immunize", load your anti-virus/spyware programs before you start surfing the net after your fresh OS install. Or use Firefox as your internet explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALHOLK Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Hi! I have had similar problems with my old Compaq. Remember that HP bought Compaq and inherited much of their technology, especially for laptops as i don't think that HP made laptops. My CD tray stopped ejecting a couple of years ago and everybody I asked said that it was a hardware problem. I now use a paperclip to open the tray and it works fine. My best advice is that you in the future avoid HP laptops like the plague. Thanks wonderlust. My disk is partitioned with programs installed on the C partition and data on the E partition (I think). If I reinstall Windows, am I right in guessing that the partition with the data will be fine? If you have viruses residing on the data partition this won't be of much use. Or rather, can I reformat a single partition or muct I reformat the entire disk? Any format program can manage this as it is a partition that is formated by definition. Personally I use Partition Magic. regards ALHOLK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALHOLK Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Hi! In future keep windows updates up to date This totally trashed my computer when I tried to upgrade my old WindosXP with SP2. This has also happened to others using Compaq's version of Windoze. Mind you it also trashed the system restore function so all I could do was reformat the entire disk and lose everything on it. Since then I will not install any upgrades from Microshaft. regards ALHOLK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 The windows crashed on a compaq laptop some years ago, maybe 1 year old at that time, it wasn't possible to reinstall windows from the CD-ROM, compaq said the didn't have any copies of old (!) OS - "you must use the CD-ROM and it's not our problem that it doesn't work" - MS no responsibility for compaq version of windows. Finally I installed a normal Windows (98 I think) which made the laptop work to 95 %. That was the last compaq ever for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Isn't it sort of a common problem with computers? the hard ware company blames the software company and vise versa, and the consumer gets screwed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderlust Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Viruses etc are often hidden in system folders so you'd need to format both partitions. Anyone not running the latest updates is going to get viruses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted January 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Hi. Ok, I scanned the little f**ker with Adaware SE, Spybot, AVG, Hijack This and ASO. SO far so good, we seem to be back up and running. However, I'm still nervous about using it on-line as I'm not sure how secure it is. While I was having this problem the "administrator" disabled my task manager so I couldn't stop any suspect services and my Windows Firewall was turned off. The above issues have been fixed now but while browsing through folders I found the folder C:Windows\webem\logs which looked suspicious.. i.e. i had lots of text files with logs of different actions on my laptop since the OS was installed. Is this normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Fidel, Next time buying a laptop, consider a Mac. I've had mine for nearly three years, and very little occurence of virus, a few always caught by the Virus protection programme that came with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Hi, Of course if it is busted (like the one from my colleague) you spend 6 weeks waiting for it to be repaired. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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