Chuck Andrews wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Gundersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: Help & Support
HP put a hidden boot sector on the Hdd as do Compaq and this can cause
many
problem when Hdds are formatted.
It is far too complex of a process for somebody to walk you through. A
good technician who is comfortable with doing it can wipe a name brand
computer hard drive, even of the hidden boot sector. Then they can do a
clean install of Windows. The result will be the computer will perform
better than it performed the day it was first used.
Media is an issue to the end user. The data may be on the hard drive or
on a restore CD. Neither of the two are as efficient as a clean install.
None of this is a problem to a computer technician who has the media he
needs for all of this plus all the drivers. Or to simplify matters a
customer may perfer to trust a computer technician to do a restore
install more then trust their own efforts.
Whatever your choice, (do it yourself or have a computer technician do
it) there are choices and definitely better methods than the one
provided by the computer manufacturer. The complete format of the hard
drive and clean install is far more complex, of course.
Chuck
Why is a complete format and a clean install FAR more complex?
I thought it was the preferred way to get a really clean start.
Sam
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