View Single Post
Old 9th June 2007, 13:31   #2609 (permalink)
Keane16
Redcafe Minister for Guinness Therapy
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Eugene, are you even listening to me?
Posts: 14,412
Quote:
Originally Posted by dangercat View Post
Yes, that's the point of them giving out recovery CD's. so it's exactly the same as when it first arrived, it loads all drivers etc on, what you need is an OEM XP disc, that will come with none of the crap installed, but you will then need to go and get programs such as NeroDVD Playback/Antivirus software

Another option is to go and uninstall everything that's on it, but getting an OEM disc is the best choice
Well dc....can I not format the drive, lose all of the shite that builds up on hard drives, make a system partition and say, a storage partition, then reinstall XP, using the reinstallation cd - giving me a new, clean pc, just like day one, but with 2 partitions, just the way I want it. Surely the reinstallation cd will let me do that. That crap that Dell pre-install isn't that big a deal...it was there day one as well.
Keane16 is offline