- Joined
- Sep 20, 2006
- Location
- Hawaii
I'm working on my mother's Compaq Presario SR1055CL. She uses it for medicare billing and stuff. It's been infected to **** with adware and it's gotten really slow. (Desktop full of "Free Ipod Nano" and other crap.) I could do scan after scan, but that won't guarantee a perfect clean. I though I might as well wipe everything.
The problem is, she never got a backup XP home reinstall disc when she bought the computer from Costco. (I went though everything and no CDs). So, how do I wipe the computer while leaving the OS partition alone? I can't afford to just dive in and try some of the things I've thought of because I can't risk losing the OS.
info from Computer Management:
3 partitions
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[img=http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1236/untitled1zy1.th.jpg]
Partition has nothing on it except 2 files. One called "recovery" with a lock icon and a 18 byte "USER" file.
The problem is, she never got a backup XP home reinstall disc when she bought the computer from Costco. (I went though everything and no CDs). So, how do I wipe the computer while leaving the OS partition alone? I can't afford to just dive in and try some of the things I've thought of because I can't risk losing the OS.
info from Computer Management:
3 partitions
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[img=http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1236/untitled1zy1.th.jpg]
Partition has nothing on it except 2 files. One called "recovery" with a lock icon and a 18 byte "USER" file.