Re: Windows XP installed twice? ? ?

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If I bought a used machine I would do a clean install. There's no telling
what the previous owner may have left on there. They may have gone to
prison for purveying child porn or belonged to Al Qaeda or something.

Clean Install Windows
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Windows XP Clean Installation - Partitioning and Formatting using Windows XP
CD
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/XPClean.htm

HOW TO Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q313348


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In MgGte.26$tA.25@trnddc06">news:MgGte.26$tA.25@trnddc06,
Ray <rayj.balt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
> I just bought a very nice used HP Pavilion ze5375us laptop and discovered
> that Windows XP Home seems to be installed in TWO drives -- the C as well
> as the D. (This makes the CD-ROM run on E.)
>
> What could possibly account for this? If I just run the recovery/restore
> disc, will it bring everything back where it should be?

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