Recent content by Quantum12

Yeah if you hear a clicking noise coming from your hd its going bad and will fail at anytime I would recomend backing up any files now and get a new drive. Dont even waste time trying to fix it either you can't.

Its all good I found a win98 disc and installed that with no probs then upgraded to winxp. I thought the 4100 would boot to cd just not this certain cd I have wink wink. I was looking on the dell site it showed a list of dell systems that boot to cd and the 4100 was'nt listed but anyway who...

There is'nt any other way? When my buddy bought the dell it did'nt come with any discs. No recovery disc no win me disc nothing. I geuss I should'nt have reformatted the drive. Unless I get any old win me os and put it back on there. Would that work? And then upgrade it from there. Or would I...

What do you mean? Differant computer. His dell had win me originaly I wiped it out and want to put xp on it.

Would fdisk /mbr do the trick? And if so would I have to reformat and reinstall again?

Ok my buddy bought a dell 4100 system. Has no cd's,software or anything like that. It had windows me on it. He wanted xp on it so I fdisked it and reformatted the hard drive and installed xp on the the drive using my pc because I could'nt get his to boot with cd or with bootdisk. (Note from dell...

Stupid me mistakenly formatted and deleted the partition on my 40 gig drive thinking it was my other 40 gig. There was alot of files I did not want to lose. What can I do? Is there any freeware progy that will recover deleted partitions/files? Whats the best method for doing this? Note: I have...