Originally posted by Jods
we did a thing dunno what its called, (I think formatting) it wipes everything clean off the computer. It is hard cuz you have to delete everything, but it wipes it right out. All I wanted to save was my pictures so I saved them all to a disc and we cleaned it all out. Make sure to get your pictures off your computer or they will be all gone. Good luck!
Don't you just love formatting? We have to do it atleast once every other month. You are suppose to format atleast once every six months. With my old computer (which we just sold ) I became very good and quick at it. Or atleast as fast as my computer would go. It is always a good idea to have an extra hard drive in your computer for storage reasons. We have 3 or 4 hard drives in the main computer. One is for storage of pictures and files. The others are for game storage and downloads that we had to pay for. A virus will affect the hard drive you have windows on. Which for us is only 1 hard drive. So I would always recommend getting a second hard drive just so you don't lose any important documents when formatting. But that's just me.