My employer has 5 used laptops that will be used by new employess. These laptopns have been used by previous employess and have sensitive data on them like email, documents, etc. My employer would like me to wipe out the hard drive but keep the os. Problem is, they dont have the oem keys for the versions of xp installed on these laptops. They did keep all of the recovery cd's that has xpsp2 on them but if I reinstall wont it prompt me for an oem key??
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captaincrunch00
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Well, I recovered an entire drive down to the windows system files with it after I had done a format.
You can download a free version which will let you see what is recoverable, then purchase the program if it will do what you want.
You can download a free version which will let you see what is recoverable, then purchase the program if it will do what you want.
In XP, System Restore will not restore user's data files (you'll have better luck in Vista when that is released).
"System Restore monitors only a core set of specified system and application file types (e.g. .exe, .dll etc.)."
"System Restore monitors only a core set of specified system and application file types (e.g. .exe, .dll etc.)."
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