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Basic Reformatting Question

Branoic · 2006-07-25 08:21:14

Hi, I need to reformat my hard drive and I've got a fairly basic question about this. I know that reformatting will wipe everything on the hard drive and require a re-install of windows and my video / sound drivers etc. But does it go beyond this? My rig was a DIY job which a friend more computer literate than I helped out…

25-07-2006 8:21am

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Branoic

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Hi, I need to reformat my hard drive and I've got a fairly basic question about this.

I know that reformatting will wipe everything on the hard drive and require a re-install of windows and my video / sound drivers etc. But does it go beyond this?

My rig was a DIY job which a friend more computer literate than I helped out with, and when it was first set up there was an awful lot of messing around in the BIOS to get everything working properly.

If I reformat will all that be scrubbed too, or will those kinds of BIOS-level settings not be affected?

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#2 25-07-2006 8:27am

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Formating will not affect bios. BIOS settings are not stored on the HD, they're saved on a chip on motherboard.

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