Sometimes problems on a Windows PC get to such a mess that the best and easiest way to recover from them is to wipe the drive and start of fresh. These problems exist because of things that people have done on their computer. Going back to 'original state' and letting Windows work the way it is designed to, free of 'nasty intruders' and user-created system corruption is a fresh start.



All hard drives need to be partitioned. Without a partition in place the drive cannot be formatted and used to store data. It's like a chest of drawers without the drawers inserted!

On many hard drives only one partition is created, and it uses all the available storage space on the drive, like a building without internal walls is simply one large room. Some people create more than one partition and use each for different things. If you use two partitions, load Windows and your programs on one and use the other for all your data files, then when you have to wipe and reinstall the system partition your data will stay where it is and not be lost!