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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
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