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Old July 6th, 2005, 08:02 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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I'm looking to reformat my hardrive, how do i do this?
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Old July 6th, 2005, 08:04 PM     #2 (permalink)
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find your dell restoration disk first adn it should guide you through the steps of reformatting, make sure to back up.
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Get your restoration disc, have the computer boot with that disc, and it should ask you if you want to reformat.

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