Re: Restoring Your Computer

If you bought your system from one of the large computer companies with XP
and programs pre installed they would also have provided either a recovery
CD or a Hidden Recovery Partition on the hard drive.Each company has their
own way of starting this recovery process by means of the hidden
partition...The CD is easy.insert and restart.In order to find out which one
your system has you will need to find and read the manual that came with it,
If it is a local computer shop sale and they have provided you with the XP
CD and various other CD's that hold the Motherboard drivers/Sound Card
drivers/Video card drivers...as well as the various programs that you
use..then it is a matter of booting from the XP CD and starting the install
procedure..which should happen automatically...and during this install watch
for the option to "format" the hard drive...do so and then continue with the
install.Once XP is installed and running you will then need to install the
motherboard drivers from the mobo CD...Video Drivers...sound drivers(a lot
of times part of mobo drivers) and then all of your programs.

Please let us know which of the above you have.....and if you need more
information.
peter
"WillM.62" <WillM62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EDC91542-C384-4C3C-A0CA-4A75717F2FD8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello, I was curious if its possible to completely restore your computer
or
your hard drive to how it was when you first bought your computer, or so
there is no unessential files on your hard drive.
I have all these random files all over the place on my computer and I
would
like to just wipe it clean.

Thanks for your help.


.

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