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system restore - HP Laptop
CheBourgeoisNoir
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My brother just recently purchased a used HP laptop from a work associate of his for $200 - a HP Pavilion N5425. Software has been uninstalled for the most part, but there's a lot of fragmentary shit left over from not-completely-uninstalled programs, and it runs slow as a result - takes forever to start/boot due to the "end program" timeout for programs not ending, and more importantly, is somehow disabled from letting the external wireless card he bought for it communicate properly with internet browers to surf - some kind of registry error frakup? The default brower, AOL explorer, (which worked fine to surf, but I uninstalled in favor of Firefox) is somehow retroactively disallowing IE or Firefix to open web pages - it's like I'm working offline.
Instead of trying to patch a broken dam, I just want to blast the whole thing. Problem is, it looks like the previous owner not only deleted the original OS partition, then made a new one with XP pro, but also deleted the rescue partition that HP uses in lieu of true rescue disks. At least, my brother didn't get a disk with it, and I can't get the resue partition to boot like on my HP desktop. (I've tried every combination of f8, f11, and shift and control you can think of.)
The only rescue disk I have right now is from a build-it-yourself job I ordered from IBuyPower - it's for an Athlon Desktop. I would just go ahead, delete the remaining partition, and boot from that, but I'm concerned about the hardware on the laptop not working - are laptop keyboards and trackpads part of the XP drivers included on such a rescue disk? Will XP be able to fill in the holes with the Hardware Wizard once I get this thing connected to the net?
Recovery CD-rom is labled:
i Series Recovery Cd-Rom
Windows XP Home Edition
SP1A (service pack?)
For distro with new PC only
Thanks in advance for your input, guys.
Che
Instead of trying to patch a broken dam, I just want to blast the whole thing. Problem is, it looks like the previous owner not only deleted the original OS partition, then made a new one with XP pro, but also deleted the rescue partition that HP uses in lieu of true rescue disks. At least, my brother didn't get a disk with it, and I can't get the resue partition to boot like on my HP desktop. (I've tried every combination of f8, f11, and shift and control you can think of.)
The only rescue disk I have right now is from a build-it-yourself job I ordered from IBuyPower - it's for an Athlon Desktop. I would just go ahead, delete the remaining partition, and boot from that, but I'm concerned about the hardware on the laptop not working - are laptop keyboards and trackpads part of the XP drivers included on such a rescue disk? Will XP be able to fill in the holes with the Hardware Wizard once I get this thing connected to the net?
Recovery CD-rom is labled:
i Series Recovery Cd-Rom
Windows XP Home Edition
SP1A (service pack?)
For distro with new PC only
Thanks in advance for your input, guys.
Che
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