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master353
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_ 		23. July 2007 @ 15:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I want ot erase everything off my hard drive because i rarely use it because it is extremely slow and there is so much stuff on it. THere is really nothing i need on it and I already took everything out. I almost formatted my hard drive but then i realized i had the recovery disc and not the windows xp install disc. How would I get rid of most this without formatting?
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_ 		24. July 2007 @ 08:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
is this an external drive or internal. if it is your c drive then you could delete files manualy and then right click tools and defrage hard drive. that should speed it up a little. if it is an external just right click and format
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master353
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_ 		24. July 2007 @ 12:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
its internal, deleting everything take s awhile, i was hoping these was a faster way
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