Hard Drive Reformat

I ran disk utility and it said the disk couldn't be repair. It said I should reformat and restore from Time Machine. My question is how do I reformat? I also want to know what happens to my music in iTunes Match that I don't have stored on my hard drive? I have a Time Capsule, will my music still be in the cloud when I restore?

Reboot while holding down the command-r keys. Select Disk Utility and then run Repair Disk. Post results.

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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Sounds like you have to transfer the songs from the mini back to the computer first.
Check this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=797426#797426
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Copy the entire iTunes folder out to the drive. If it is too big to go as one copy stuff over to another computer in batches. It is important to have not only the media but the library file in order to properly restore your library.
See also this User Tip. Assuming the machine won't connect to the internet you could download the SyncToy installer on another machine and then transfer it with the thumb drive. If it will connect to the net don't forget to deauthorize the machine before reformatting the hard drive.
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I keep my iTunes music files on a 2nd internal hard drive, in a folder that I titled "iTunes Folder". I also plan to reformat this internal hard drive.
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Is there a way to upload songs from an iPod to the iTunes library? I had to reformat my hard drive and was able to upload purchases, but I would like to upload all songs on my iPod as opposed to reloading all the CDs.

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iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows
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Drive Preparation
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
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Hello,
NB200 -00L is the model
Power was down during the beginning of hard drive reformat,I had tried to press 0 (zero) during restart
I had also tried to press F8 during it restart, then choose repair option, but it kept rebooting itself in a loop with no error message.
I really would like to restore to the manufacturing settings.
I had my usb drive, but the system does not recognize the mirror image on my usb flash drive anymore.
Unfortunately, my model does not come with a dvd reader neither.
What are my options?

Netbook NB200-00L (PLL28C-00L011)
Everything for that Canadian model is here.
the system does not recognize the mirror image on my usb flash drive anymore.
I don't understand what's happening. If you cannot boot from a flash drive with recovery media, it may be that the drive does not have the proper contents. You can remedy that by ordering a new flash drive from Toshiba.
See the section Restoring the pre-installed software from your created Recovery Media, which is on p. 3-14 of your User's Manual.
If you cannot boot from a known bootable flash drive, I would seek service.
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Re Format Hard Drive

I have a HP Mini 210-1135tu, running Windows 7. I had tried restoring back to Factry setting
When playing vidoes it stops after around 2 seconds and then just freezes, so we had the hard drive reformatted, It won't connect to my wireless internet device it's really slow, slower than it was before. The person who formatted it has taken off all the HP supoort, connection manager, wireless assistant evrything. I've tried downloading and re-installing these but it hasn't help
This is the information I found under the battery:
Model - HP Mini 210-1135tu
Product - XJA368PA#ABG
Serial - {Removed for privacy}

You can order recovery media here, use this recovery media to get your mini reinstalled and working properly.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00810334&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en

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