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Formatting a HD, then reinstalling Windows XP from Recovery Partition... help please!?
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DVDZane
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_ 		4. November 2007 @ 19:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey Everyone,

My sister's computer is really messed up. Its very slow and filled with viruses. To solve this, Im going to format the hard drive, then reboot XP. Since the computer is so messed up, I cant create recovery disks for it.
So my question is, how do i format the hard drive, then reinstall Windows XP from the Recovery Partition???

If anyone could give me a brief walk through, that would be awesome!

Thanks
- DVDZane
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ddp
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_ 		4. November 2007 @ 19:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
does it come up with system recovery by pressing f10 or something like that before it goes into windows?
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DVDZane
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_ 		4. November 2007 @ 19:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes im fairly sure.
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DVDZane
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_ 		4. November 2007 @ 19:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Waymon3X6, ive already seen that, but thanks. The question is how do i do it from the Recovery Partition.
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ddp
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_ 		4. November 2007 @ 19:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the recovery does it automatically so no need to do it.
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DVDZane
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_ 		4. November 2007 @ 19:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OH? thats helpful, ill give it a try.

Thanks guys.
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DVDZane
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_ 		18. November 2007 @ 17:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yup that worked amazingly. The computer is running like when we first took it out of the box.

Thanks for the help.
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ddp
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no problem, teach & learn
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