Posted: 5/4/2008 7:18:42 PM EDT
Could someone help a brother out? I have a Dell Dimension 2350 desktop  that I'm sure is full of crap. It gets slower and slower every day. It's not fast to start with. Anyone know of a way to COMPLETELY wipe out the computer and start over? It has the Pentium 4 and Windows xp.
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You can EXPORT them in most browsers. You could email them as links to a yahoo acct, then retrieve them after the storm... |
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Go to My Computer > Local Disk c:\ > Documents and Settings > [your user name] > Favorites. That is all of your favorites, just copy the contents of that folder onto a CD or flashdrive and you will be good. Feel free to PM me if you need more in depth instrucition. |
Well, that's a kind offer that I'm sure I'll need to take you up on. 
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ok. do you have a set of recovery discs or is it a separate windows xp o/s cd with install cd's for 3rd party programs? if you have recovery discs, start with the first one. put it into the drive and the recovery wizard should load. you will want to choose the destructive recovery method, but be aware that this erases all your data so do a backup of your data beforehand. |
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If you have Dell recovery CDs, you ought to have one that says "OPERATING SYSTEM" on it (maroon colored, maybe a blue color). If so, place the CD into your CDROM drive, then restart your computer. By default, I believe the Dell BIOS is setup to search the CDROM drive for bootable media before it searches the hard disk. If so, you'll see something like "Press any key to boot from CD..." Do that, a quick format ought to do the trick, and then you'll just need to put your drivers CD in and install any that didn't come with Windows. |
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