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- May 15, 2004
Sometime this week, I'm going to this guy's house to fix his computer. The parents in the household have two kids, both under 13. So basically, they have this adware-infested Dell computer. It's about a year old and it came with XP (home edition, I assume). He is asking me to come over, reformat his hard drive, and reinstall his programs, drivers, and backed-up files.
When I do this on my computer, it's no sweat. I just back up my mp3s, game saves, documents, etc. I pop in my winxp pro cd and boot from it. I delete the only petition I have on my hdd, create a new one, and install xp on that. Once installed I d/l drivers, and my favorite apps. Easy enough.
My question is, is there anything different I need to do with this guy's Dell? Does the XP CD that come with Dell comps freak out when you try to reinstall it? Will I have to bring along my old copy of XP pro (with a cd key i don't use anymore)?
Any other tips or pieces of advice would be appreciated
When I do this on my computer, it's no sweat. I just back up my mp3s, game saves, documents, etc. I pop in my winxp pro cd and boot from it. I delete the only petition I have on my hdd, create a new one, and install xp on that. Once installed I d/l drivers, and my favorite apps. Easy enough.
My question is, is there anything different I need to do with this guy's Dell? Does the XP CD that come with Dell comps freak out when you try to reinstall it? Will I have to bring along my old copy of XP pro (with a cd key i don't use anymore)?
Any other tips or pieces of advice would be appreciated
