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Old 9th July 2004 | 16:01
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Onan the Clumsy

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Running the recovery disks for XP pro

I checked the archives, but didn't see the answer.

Just for the hell of it, I decided to run the recovery disks and rebuild my laptop I want to rebuild it to new specs with a format and everything. That'll clean it up and get rid of those damn viruses I've got

I have all the data backed up and I changed the boot order to hit the CD first. It seems to go ok, but then asks if I want to repair, so I type R but then it asks me for the admin password The bloke in the pub never told me anyfink about an admin

Anyway, seeing as I want to blow away the HD, ...how do I go about doing this? Do I need to create a boot disk? Do I just format C: and THEN run the recovery disks? Are you the bloke in the pub?

TIA
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