Hello,
Upon my advice my sis just bought a Lenovo XP HomeSP2 core 2 duo laptop. After scrounging around looking for the OS CD I RTFM and found out THERE IS NO OS CD. I realize this is common now by reading here about "recovery partitions" that will be useless if the HDD takes a dump.
I have not nosed around in the recovery partition but my plan was to wipe the drive, install XPHome SP2 from separate CD and be free from the 11 million craplets in the systray. I would leave the recovery partition intact.
Is there a way to extract just the OS from that partition or would I be better off just uninstalling all the craplets and leaving the stock OS as-is? Opinions?
Tony
Upon my advice my sis just bought a Lenovo XP HomeSP2 core 2 duo laptop. After scrounging around looking for the OS CD I RTFM and found out THERE IS NO OS CD. I realize this is common now by reading here about "recovery partitions" that will be useless if the HDD takes a dump.
I have not nosed around in the recovery partition but my plan was to wipe the drive, install XPHome SP2 from separate CD and be free from the 11 million craplets in the systray. I would leave the recovery partition intact.
Is there a way to extract just the OS from that partition or would I be better off just uninstalling all the craplets and leaving the stock OS as-is? Opinions?
Tony