Re: FORMATTING

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From: anonymous (PA20Pilot_at_faa.gov)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:39:59 -0500

Hi,

......A) NOTHING WORKS.

That's not too surprising, reformatting the drive erased it. Normally
you would need to reinstall all your programs after an erase, even if
you had the individual files on a backup drive. Just dragging the files
back won't reinstall the programs that used them originally, things like
  the registration file doesn't know you've ever had other programs
installed, so you need to install all your programs again.

.........B) CANNOT OPEN ANY PROGRAMS I HAD ON EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

You'll also find that most of your hardware doesn't work like it used to
either. More than likely there were newer versions of your drivers
before the disk erase that were also deleted during the reformat.

If you want to make your life a little easier, I'd suggest installing
and running a program named Belarc Advisor and printing out the results.
  http://www.belarc.com/ Belarc will run a system wide look at
everything your box has inside and tell you the type of hardware you
have in there that you'll need drivers for.

A less painful direction might be trying to find an often furnished CD
that comes with your brand of laptop and see if you can do a system
restore back to the configuration it was in before you let someone play
with your toy.

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Jim Self
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