i thought you started with a clean reg after a format

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yeah, what exactly are you trying to do? maybe i could help you.

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Well simply.. if you just formatted both your hardrives there should be no OS on them.. So just reinstall Windows and you should have a fresh registry.. or am i missing something

I had thought that formatting would clear my registyr, but i went into it via regedit, and found reg entries from programs long since wiped by the format

Hence the confusion

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are you sure you didn't just try to delete everything on your hard drive manually? cause formatting is different... also, if you want to do it again you can always remove all the partitions and repartition your drive before formatting it, that's guaranteed to work.

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Originally posted by Superstar are you sure you didn't just try to delete everything on your hard drive manually? cause formatting is different... also, if you want to do it again you can always remove all the partitions and repartition your drive before formatting it, that's guaranteed to work.

Of course i'm sure I formatted it

It is partitioned, so I might just re format (when it gets back from the repair joint ) and remove them. Weird.

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Well if your still looking for something to delete registry entries just get a program called regcleaner and that should do it.

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Originally posted by CATHAIN Well if your still looking for something to delete registry entries just get a program called regcleaner and that should do it.

Exactly what I was looking for, cheers

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have u not heard of google, arctic?

monkey!!

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Originally posted by Ozzie have u not heard of google, arctic? monkey!!

Stop following me

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to safely format your hard drives and completely erase everything from memory (including the registry and all OS files and dirs), there's a program called gdisk (look it up in google .. forgot the site) and the program basically takes out the OS from the memory and then after that, you can do a simple fdisk and format to set up your HD with your specific specifications you want (100% occupy, 75%/25%, whatever ...)