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Posted 18 March 2011 - 04:28 PM

I did reformat/reinstall last night following the steps exactly as above. When the computer can not boot when restarted. The window displays "dish error" I'd like to know what happened? 


Mordent

Posted 24 August 2007 - 04:41 PM

Interesting side note:

Once you've reformatted your PC, for whatever reason, try not to get it in such a bad state again. Ever since I reformatted my laptop I've kept all programs installed in logical directories (unlike the root directory :D), and got things like anti-virus/firewall/anti-spyware etc. sorted, meaning that it's been running nice and smoothly since. No more files in ridiculous places, and I keep all of my installers in one directory (for downloads, at least) so I know where to access them. Do a disk defrag every so often, and run a cleanup utility on a regular basis as well and you shouldn't have to worry about reformatting again. :blink:

ethergeek

Posted 24 August 2007 - 03:20 PM

I have yet had any games that require FAT32 because shouldn't Windows handle all the I/O requests, and not the game?

xboxrulz


Yep. Windows handles all File I/O requests. The advantage to NTFS in gaming is compression. When you load large texture files off the disk, the CPU is just idling while the disk is thrashing to get the data into RAM...if you turn on compression on the game folder, you offload a little bit of that strain onto the CPU which had nothing to do, previously.

This is only a bright idea if you have a very fast machine...especially in an SMP setup, since most games load routines really aren't multithreaded anyway.

Chesso

Posted 24 August 2007 - 02:11 PM

Nice tutorial, very clear on what to do. Should help a number of guys that are up for their first format or very rarely do it.
Just make sure that all data is backed up properly, double check it. The number of people that have corrupted backups and cd's burnt onto faulty discs etc is amazing - check your stuff before you proceed with the format, or else you might lose everything.

-HellFire


I cannot begin to stress just how important the above is, about making damn sure any back-ups, especially vital ones are to be in perfect working order.

I have burned off back-ups in the past, just nice and fast, not paying too much attention to it all in a rush and not verifying the disc or medium is in working order, only to need it later down the road and the darn thing can't access anything :|, also be vary wary of cheap cd's/dvd's.

HellFire121

Posted 24 August 2007 - 07:54 AM

Nice tutorial, very clear on what to do. Should help a number of guys that are up for their first format or very rarely do it.
Just make sure that all data is backed up properly, double check it. The number of people that have corrupted backups and cd's burnt onto faulty discs etc is amazing - check your stuff before you proceed with the format, or else you might lose everything.

-HellFire

Chesso

Posted 24 August 2007 - 02:24 AM

Very nice tutorial, and a good idea to have it up here for all to refer to.

I have had to do this task considerably over the years, though I do often get stuck with bits and bobs as I forget (as the span of doing this is often months in difference), so it is very useful to have somewhere to refer too.

xboxrulz

Posted 23 August 2007 - 02:13 PM

I have yet had any games that require FAT32 because shouldn't Windows handle all the I/O requests, and not the game?

xboxrulz

WeaponX

Posted 23 August 2007 - 01:41 PM

Nice and easy to follow tutorial mist :D

That letter to press after you delete the partition is L to confirm the deletion :blink:

A side tip. If anyone plans to create more than one partition, now is the time to do it. Once Windows is installed, you will need a third party program like Partition Magic to split up the partition. A partition is just a separate section made available for data (be it files or the Operating System) storage. This is when you see more drives in My Computer where you can store your files to it instead of using C: all the time.

FAT32 does have its advantages. Most games should work with NTFS, but older games may still require FAT32.

Daniel666

Posted 23 August 2007 - 07:55 AM

Thats a nice tutorial, i wish i had that when i first re-formatted a computer (remembers and shivers)

i remember my backup drives didnt copy properly, then there was the bit where i had NO idea which commands to put in and was just guessing to get the windows disk to startup ^^

i did it by deleting first with a floppy then reinstalling, the long way round i know, but it was my first time

xboxrulz

Posted 23 August 2007 - 03:01 AM

Nice tutorial, but I don't think a lot of members here need it since it's such a basic task :blink:. Great work nonetheless.

xboxrulz

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