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Windows XP, what needs saved in order to wipe hard drive, no recovery disk was provided?
April 14, 2010
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Clean Registry and Optimize PC
First, back all your data up. Second, insert XP CD and boot from a ROM drive. Choose a clean installation will wipe out all old data. Note that you need to buy XP CD separately.
There should be an option somewhere in Accesories/System tools to create these disks. HP’s rarely supply these disks, but always have a way to ‘create’ them.
As far as what to save: Well that depends on what you have on your pc & what you value. That is something you will have to decide on yourself. I would look at all my documents, pdf files, excel and powerpoint files/documents & decide which you need, which are nice to have & which you can live without.
No recovery disks or no winxp cd=live with it.
ok i use to work for hp back in the late 2000 hp decided to put all recovery media on the hard drive. to do a complete destructive Recovery when you see the hp logo pop up on your computer when you boot it will have on the bottom of the screen press(it will be a f key) for recovery follow the proses and everything should work fine