formatting

[Guest]

i was told that i should format my hard drive from time to time and i had my
pc for a year now and i think it is probably time to do so......can somone
tell me in easy steps on how to format my pc i have a 80 gb hard drive i have
10 1.4 mb2hd formatted diskettes please help much thanks............. Darryl

 

[Ted Zieglar]

With Windows XP there is no reason to format your hard disc from time to time.

Ted Zieglar

 

[peterk]

No need to format but you should run chkdsk and do a defrag once a month,
Open help&support...type in both words one at a time and it will explain the
procedure
peterk