Posts by rustyheron20

Karen Garcia5 said:Stop kidding yourself, you aren't exactly a tech wizard 🤣

I know I'm not, and honestly, it's pretty embarrassing🙂

Joseph Chavez7 said:1. Just move everything to the D drive... just saying..
2. 14 - kid..
3. Mentor - what's the point if he doesn't know anything... PE class?
4. School - wipe everything, strip the components.. you've got nothing to lose.. right?
5. Laptop - money isn't an issue...

In that case, just pop in a Windows Vista disc, boot from it, wipe both drives, and enjoy a fresh install of Vista...
If those files are actually that important, just shove them onto the D drive, reinstall Vista from the disc onto C, and format only C in the process, since rowdytrucker27 claims C is the system partition and that "generally" Windows won't let you partition it... Well, if that "rule" actually holds up (because Windows is Windows.. and we all know how they feel about most "rules")... then once you have everything looking sharp on C, you move the data back and format D by right-clicking it and hitting format. Then you can definitely format D without any issues..

1. Fine.
2. I'm genuinely curious what you were up to when you were my age.
3. You're not wrong there. He's a moron.
4. For what it's worth, we had the cops show up at our school one day because of a computer science thing.
5. Got it for the crisis.

I'll let you know when I get it done.

Joseph Chavez7 said:He didn't use any formatting tools, we do everything manually here....

You can wipe them out this way;

Say you have Windows XP on your C partition and Windows Vista on D, when you boot the system, a menu pops up asking which Windows you want to load, so obviously you’re going to pick Windows Vista.
Basically, you need to be running the OS from the D partition. It has to be Vista.
First, just try right-clicking the C partition and hitting Format, which should normally let you wipe the whole thing without any hassle.
If that doesn't work, pull up the command prompt... switch over to the D partition (since you can't format C while you're currently sitting on it, and to switch to D, you just type D: )
then type format /? and just spend an afternoon looking through all the options for formatting the C partition if you're bored enough...

Despite what you're trying to pull off, I have to say the others have a point. I don't get why you'd bother switching to Vista; Windows XP is solid, and Vista hasn't even hit its final version yet, so you're basically just inviting trouble, from driver issues to being unable to run newer games. Just think back to when Windows XP first dropped and look at the hundreds of updates they've pushed since... wait until you see what happens with Vista..

Just hang tight for a bit... and if you've got nothing better to do instead of messing around with these kinds of headaches... play Tetris...

I'm not exactly clueless when it comes to switching to D:.🙂 When Windows XP first came out, I didn't even know how to turn a computer on. I don't recall the exact date, but I'm 14 now, so do the math. Right now, my mentor and I are trying to install Vista on a computer at school, so I've got nothing to lose. On my laptop at home, I'm sticking with good old Windows XP.

Are you kidding me right now? Look, just quit the attitude—if you can't actually help, then don't bother, but if someone genuinely needs a hand, they should be able to ask without getting chewed out. I know you’re solid and you already helped me fix a massive headache once before, so there's no need to go to war over every little thing. If you actually take a look at the user profiles, you'll see plenty of younger guys here who are eager to learn and clearly know their stuff, even if they haven't mastered everything yet. So, tell me, have you ever actually worked with Vista?

And what kind of tool did he use to format her?

I'm running Windows Vista on my rig right now. I've got Windows XP sitting on one partition and Vista on another. I'm trying to wipe the old OS entirely without nuking all my old files in the process. Anyone else out there rocking Vista, and what's the verdict on it so far?
P.S. Trying to just delete it through Windows Explorer isn't doing the trick.