IainB
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| posted on 15/10/06 at 10:56 AM |
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Win XP - System Recovery
Not mne but sister's toshiba laptop. Needs a total hard drive wipe and reinstallation of windows. The laptop is about 1 year old.
She doesn't seem to have a WinXP CD so cant do it traditional way. Someone has told me they dont supply CDs anymore, rather its stored on a
partition on the hard drive - Is this true? How would you go about reinstalling wondows if this is the case?
btw the sister is in nottingham and im in glasgow so if someone fancies just going to do it that would be great 
Many thanks,
Iain
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 15/10/06 at 11:32 AM |
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Never got a disc with our new computer, think on starting up you get a reboot option? Could be talking crap as I know nothing about computers.
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the_fbi
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| posted on 15/10/06 at 12:02 PM |
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Under M$'s OEM licence policy the PC manufacturer has to give you a way of recovering it to the shipped state.
They'll either be a normal XP CD, or a manufacturer version (which may just contain an image of the install) or they'll be a recovery
partition.
If there weren't any CDs with the machine, look out for a prompt during POST with something along the lines of "Press F12 for recovery
boot partition"
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Minicooper
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| posted on 15/10/06 at 03:00 PM |
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Hello,
Today I have done this exact thing with my Dell Desktop after it became unstable.
First thing to try is the System Restore exe, located in the start/programs/accercories/system tools/system restore location. This should allow you to
go back to a previous build before the problems started just pick a restore date and follow instructions.
This didn't work for me at all I had many restore points but none of them were succesful.
So I had to do the full system restore which basically takes it back to the new install, this means you will lose everything that has been installed,
emails, pictures, etc, etc this all needs to be recovered off the hard drive before starting again
For me with the dell it was on startup just as the keyboards lights flicker do Ctrl and F11 and this takes you the system total restore feature, there
should be a similiar feature with the laptop look in the supplied documentation
Cheers
David
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