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how do i reformat my computer? its messed up and its a dell/laptop. itunes doesnt work and there are many system32 messages that popup so i want to try to reformat it but i dont know how to! can someone tell me how to or a site to show step by step directions? and also, by doing this is this dangerous like messing up my computer even more?
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You aren't putting your computer at anymore risk than it already is at.
Essentially, a reformat will zip your computer back to a past state, hopefully when it was much better than it is now. To do a reformat go to "Start" "All Programs" "Accessories" "System Tools" "System Reformat"
Choose a date in which you remember your computer wasn't as messed up. Also, be sure you don't have anything extremely important on there that you did recently. Your computer will revert back to the date you choose it to, loosing all current information.
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Formatting your computer essentially means you're giving yourself a clean slate. Your entire hard disk drive will be wiped clean, so before you go through with the format you MUST MAKE SURE that if you want to save any pictures/videos/documents/etc. that you need to move them to a secondary hard drive or burn to a CD/DVD. (Or if you have an mp3 player with a hard disk, you can transfer your files onto that - that's what I did at least, since I had about 16 Gb of stuff to save.)
Once you're sure that you are ready to format, find your windows CD and any driver CDs you can find from Dell (you should have gotten diagnostic CDs from Dell that includes drivers of all the hardware in the laptop). From here, I refer you to the windows help page referring to this exact process.
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