Similar problem, I'll post here
I have a related question, so I won't start a new thread-
I also have a venerable laptop, a Medion bought at Aldi back in April 2003! It has never let me down, although boot is now extremely slow. The battery holds about 15 mins charge, but this is not the problem as it is happy to sit on a desk plugged into the mains.
I really want to cure the sluggishness though, and as I have just bought a new über-laptop and will give the old one to my son, I thought I would clear the HD completely and use the OEM CD to reinstall everything. So my questions are:
Will this entirely restore the HD to its former glory, or should I do a format C before (and in this case, can somebody please post the correct line of text)?
More importantly, the OEM software was XP, and I'm not even certain it was the SP1 version at the time. If I re-install a jurassic version of XP, will the MS update site still update it?
Many thanks!
Maxbert