Guest treader. Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Begin again with my laptop?Recently nothing has been going right, I cant install programs and everything is slow as holy hell. I have backed all my music and everything onto a 500gb external hard drive and I basically just want to get my computer back to when i first bought it, and then download all the software I am using currently.I have done Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter in an attempt to speed things up but it's not helping really. I just want to sort of start again.Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated.Cheers,Ewan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Do you have the reinstall CD which came with the laptop? That should return you to factory setup.Failing that, you're talking about reinstalling Windows, finding drivers for all the various components, which depending on your laptop may be easy or difficult if the manufacturer chooses to make it so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treader. Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 i tried uninstalling a few programs to try and sort things out.but when i tried to re-install them, it wont let me.i cant install anything, it's doing my nut in.i need some help. i can pay if need be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 i tried uninstalling a few programs to try and sort things out.but when i tried to re-install them, it wont let me.i cant install anything, it's doing my nut in.i need some help. i can pay if need be.That's not what I asked. Most laptops come with a recovery or reinstall CD which when applied restores the laptop to factory state in the software sense. Do you still have it?What kind of laptop is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treader. Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 It's a Compaq Presario V6000 running Windows Vista. It has a small separate hard drive to use for recovery rather than discs or whatnot. Im scared to re-install windows though, as it seems a really really drastic measure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 If you have your shit backed up what is there to be scared about? Women these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treader. Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 i dont have a cd. i think, as i said before, it is stored on the "RECOVERY" drive of my computer. handy name that. not sure how to actually open that though, as when i try it just tells me "WARNING. THESE FILES ARE USED FOR BACKUP. DO NOT DELETE OR ALTER THESE FILES" and then...doesnt do anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 You probably need to press F8 or something when the computer boots up, look for instructions mentioning advanced boot options or similar before the windows loading screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treader. Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 a friend is sorting it for me tonight. he will save the day.good old greig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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