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Summary: How to reboot a personal computer after formatting the hard drive; learn more about using computers in this free instructional video.
David Justin has his own computer service business in Los Angeles where he consults for a variety of companies, sets up their computer formatting and provides other technology services.read more
"Now the computer is rebooting, it’s going through the same phase as when it first started, press any key to book from CD. We’re not going to do that, we’re just going to let the computer take over and you’ll see the Windows logo coming up. On our next screen, this is pretty much going to do it, itself, at the very bottom it says setup will take approximately thirty-nine minutes. As I stated before, it can take forty-five minutes or so depending on the speed of your computer. This time will fluctuate too, it's going to go through, one, two, three, four, five different phases; collecting information, dynamic update, preparing installation, which is what we are on right now, installation of Windows and finalizing installation. If you’d like to you can read all the exciting new features of Windows XP. As we speak, this is already out, the reason I’m bringing it up is a lot of people are actually unhappy with their Vista systems and they are formatting them back to XP. XP is almost around seven to ten years old but it’s still a great operating system so again, it you’re not happy with your XP, I’m sorry, your Vista system you can actually format your hard drive and go back to XP "