Hi guys.
I've been wondering how can I SAFELY format my laptop's HDD. One of my roommates formatted a few months ago his laptop's HDD and he told me to be extremely carefull while doing so; he said he wrecked his since it constantly overheats causing unexpected shut downs.
GOOD NEWS: my dad showed me the last weekend the factory original WinXP os and hardware controller CD's that came in the pc's box when he boght it three years ago, I hope it will help, just in case.
Furthermore I would also like to know if its possible to upgrade the RAM memory. Currently it (mine) has 256MB and a Celeron 2.8GHz processor.
Do I have to do any configurations for my laptop to recognize tha memory bank? Do I have to look for a specific kind of memory bank?
You can install RAM without doing any configuration to your laptop. Just plug-in the RAM in your laptop (hope you know where to plug-in) and switch on your notebook it will automatically detect RAM.
As for formatting your HDD you can try to insert the recovery disk which came along with the laptop when purchased. This CD would have an option for formating. Just follow the instruction for doing so.
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