

If you reformat your PC's hard drive, it'll be useless to you and won't start again until a new operating system installation is done. It deletes everything on the drive (including Windows). Thanks againĭee can - Please DO NOT trigger a Format. cboy,I think cloning to a new hard drive is what I want to do, so I might be back to ask how to do that.

How do I backup my bookmarks and address book? I use Firefox and Outlook Express. I think I bought it in 2004, so it isn't that old, at least for me, and it has everything most of the new ones have. Until now I have had zero problems with it. I really don't want to replace the whole set up, because this has every thing I need except smaller size and still feels like a 'new' one to me, except I have a bulky 17' CRT monitor. It has plenty of free space around it for ventilation. I do have the case up off the floor sitting on my desk top, but it still was very dusty. I did a Balarc Advisor report and all it says about the hard drive is '160.04 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity',so I have to do a little research to find out what make it is. I will try PC Pitstop when I finish here. I haven't had that message since I cleaned it out. It said the temp ws 48 degrees celcius, so I feel very lucky that HDD Health caught it.

It was giving me the message about the Temp Critical and with the dust that was there, I'm sure I was headed for a crash. owbist, I downloaded a program called HDD Health (recommended by Kim Komando) and that is what is giving me the Attribute seek error message.
