Hi Jack, Those restore partitions are worth their weight in gold. A friend of mine who (no matter how much antivirus and antispyware we feed him) always loads up on nasties, maybe it's the porn sites and he is going to learn to do this himself soon as he's averaging a reinstall every year from me.
Jon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 8:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] reformatting hard drive? Well, I have an off the shelf computer that came with Windows Vista already installed on it. It has a partition that's labeled "Drive D." This is the original OS as it came from the factory. If I should ever need to restore my computer, one of the options is to restore it to the original factory settings. Now, should the whole drive die, so then would my copy of Vista. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] reformatting hard drive? Ar, Vista would be slightly easier then as the product key is only required if you wish to commit to the licence and thus activate the product. When you install Vista without a product key it will run as a 30 day, fully functional trial. -- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: chrishallsworth7266 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kliph A M" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] reformatting hard drive? Actually this will be vista. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 8:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] reformatting hard drive? I've installed XP manually several times. The only thing you may need sighted assistance on for the first few times is the entry of the product key. Once you've done that it should be pretty straightforward once you've memorized the keystrokes. -- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: chrishallsworth7266 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon C. Pierson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] reformatting hard drive? Hi, Let me chime in here to say that yes, you may need assistance (and not necessarily sighted assistance) but not because you can't see. In other words a totally blind person can do complete XP installs, I've done far too many myself of late do to changing hardware needs and upgrades to my machine. I just did 3 machines for a friend who managed to blow up a pretty stable OS in XP repeatedly. He doesn't know enough to do such work and it's not like his eyes are broken. If you are a first-timer at this, help is in order. There is a lot of info out there about doing an unattended install from Dos or better yet, making a bootable cd with the script file included which formats the drive and enters all the relevant information for you about your Windows installation. You can even have it start Narrator or the installer for your favorite screen reader at the end of the process. Jon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] reformatting hard drive? Kliph, As someone who has done the very thing you want to do, I can tell you that you will need to have someone there with sight. And if you have your Windows CD, it reformats the drive before it starts reinstalling the operating system. Just make sure that you've backed up everything you want to save. Because once you start to reinstall Windows, everything on the drive will be gone. With my other computer, I had a floppy drive that had a winnt.SIF file on it. This had all the instructions on it for installing Windows XP. As Windows was being installed, it would look to the floppy drive for all the installation instructions. But you still needed sighted help with some of it. In short, don't try this on your own. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kliph A M" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:52 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] reformatting hard drive? How would I go about reformatting my hard drive? There are something's that aren't working like they should, and I'm tired of hearing the error message and trying to fix it. Also, how easy is it to reinstall my OS? Thanks in Advance! 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