Re: Hardrive

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From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:06:36 -0600

As a note to the OP: Wouldn't you have checked into this before doing
something so drastic? If this was a spur of the moment gesture, what
impelled it? 

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"Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message 
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>> I have deleted my hard drive. I need to get my computer back operating
>> again. I do not know how to go about putting Windows XP back on my
>> system to get it running again. I have the System disk, plus 2 other
>> disks that I need to put in the system. I don't remember the names of
>> those disks. Can you please give me advice on how to get my Gateway
>> system back up and running again. Any help you can give me will be
>> deeply appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Pretty simple. Stick the install CD into the computer. Boot up the 
> computer, so that it starts from the CD, then follow the easy instructions 
> on your monitor.
>
> If you have a Gateway, you've probably got one of those crappy restore CDs 
> that puts your computer back into the condition it was in when you bought 
> it. This will wipe out everything that was on the hard drive, but from 
> what you write, you've already managed to do this. I guess it goes without 
> saying that you didn't have any backups.
>
> Find the Gateway restore CD. Stick it in (you'll have to have the computer 
> turned on to open the CD tray). Reboot. That means turn the computer off, 
> then on again. It should read from the CD and give you the option to 
> restore your system to its brain dead, advertisement bloated original 
> condition.
>
> If it won't boot up from the CD, you may have to enable booting from the 
> CD in the BIOS. But let's not look for problems. Try the restore CD, it 
> will likely work. Hint: it's one of the three that came with the computer.

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