How do I change the parameters on my Hard drive? and to what do I change it bac

[DBingham]

I have an outdated laptop that I'm using until I can up grade... Friend of mine installed some hacked programs so I could use the computer, but that failed after awhile. So I bought the operating disk for this computer and installed genuine program, but its Windows Vista, and I hear its not the greatest... Vista apparently makes copies of everything the computer does, not just what I do... So in 3 days of being installed correctly my 1G of memory and 120G of Hard drive was almost full. My wife knows alot more about computer than I do and showed me what needs to changed... I guess I did something different than what she explained and now I cant access the driver at all to get Restore points. And on reboot it says the C drive parameters are incorrect. Is this a technical job or can I be guided through it to correct what I have done?

 

[ksiemb]

I have an outdated laptop that I'm using until I can up grade... Friend of mine installed some hacked programs so I could use the computer, but that failed after awhile. So I bought the operating disk for this computer and installed genuine program, but its Windows Vista, and I hear its not the greatest... Vista apparently makes copies of everything the computer does, not just what I do... So in 3 days of being installed correctly my 1G of memory and 120G of Hard drive was almost full. My wife knows alot more about computer than I do and showed me what needs to changed... I guess I did something different than what she explained and now I cant access the driver at all to get Restore points. And on reboot it says the C drive parameters are incorrect. Is this a technical job or can I be guided through it to correct what I have done?

Should have had the wife do it. :lol:

1 - Requires going into setup F2 and correcting config for drives.

or

2 - Boot from Windows CD and choose repair - install

 

[hang-the-9]

There is no way Vista will use up 120gig of drive space during normal use.

Did you format the drive when you re-installed the OS? If not, run the Vista setup again, and do a full format. Then run the Service Pack update for it.

The copy thing you are talking about is probably the system restore points, but by default I think that reserves 5 or 10% of the drive.

If you have files on your hard-drive you want to save, buy a new hard-drive, install the OS on that. Get a USB enclosure for your existing drive to copy your files over.