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Old 24-02-07, 01:01
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Originally Posted by carman View Post
On the subject of reformatting I just had to buy a new computer following a total hard drive crash on my much upgraded PC. I bought Dell because the whole operating system is kept in a hidden partition which you can recall in anything but a complete HD failure. You don't need to use the disks. I do have a full XP system on disk though.

That's just taking up unnecessary space on your hard drive, you'll still have to re-install all your software again if you reboot. Anyway you can set up a partition on your hard drive for storing the Win XP intallation files yourself if you really want to??

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