System shut down, trying to restore, not enough hdd space?

[tomsaucier]

So my system randomly froze up and shut down. System repair starts up but can not find a problem. I could care less about anything saved on my comp so I would just like to restore to factory settings.

I put in the disk provided by iBuyPower to restore and when I try to, I get an error saying "not enough hdd space". I also can not get to a restore point as for some reason, there are none showing available now.

I can not get to the desktop at all. Can not start in safe mode.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[braddersz]

If you're not fused about loosing date. Then instead of a "Restore". Do a complete re-installation of Windows. Formatting the drive during the installation.

 

[LittleJay]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html?ltr=D
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2674-partition-volume-create-new.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

If you are interested in doing a clean install of your operating system you can follow the above tutorials. You will first need to create a repair disk first, so you can boot up into it and run diskpart from there. I would highly recommend that you create system image and backup all your files on an external HDD before you proceed.