Do a what now?
I really am the most useless person ever to use a computer.
Ah, you merely
think you are.
I got my first PC in November 1992 and by December 1992, I had broke it. The thought of reformatting it filled me with the same statistical odds as conducting brain surgery with a chainsaw. Blind-folded.
By pure fluke, reading the instructions carefully, or a mixture of both - it worked. And from that point on, I was never put off doing it. I look back now to those times and its the technical equivalent of crank-starting your car compared to the common keyless ignitions of today. These days, it's pretty damn difficult to fail.
The biggest issue that ANYBODY has in reformatting their PC is when two days later, they fire up the computer and ask...
"Where are the pictures of Richard's graduation?..."
"Where are those photos of Lucy's wedding?..."
"Where are the images of my melted 182 steering wheel?..."
They are gone, simple as. Well, not strictly true for the most part - but expensive enough to price themselves out of being recovered. Get them burnt onto a CD/DVD first - along with anything else you want to keep and you're halfway there. Assuming you have an operating system disk or recovery partition? It all sounds like technical b****cks at the minute, but stick with it - it's not hard at all.
To be fair, this is where Macs absolutely own PCs on their reformat abilities. Even a chimp with the IQ of an Oxo cube could reformat a Mac. I don't think it's conceivably possible that Apple could make it any easier?
D.
