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nana

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    windows xp home edition
    « on: March 15, 2009, 06:38:51 PM »
    Hi, just wanting to clean out a computer that my daughter had for my grandson to use. its a compaq presario s4020wm. If iI can I would like to set it back to factory settings.  Thank You

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    Re: windows xp home edition
    « Reply #1 on: March 15, 2009, 06:40:37 PM »
    Do you have your restore CD?
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      Re: windows xp home edition
      « Reply #2 on: March 15, 2009, 06:43:05 PM »
      not at this time but she said she has the ones she made when it was bought, somewhere.

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      Re: windows xp home edition
      « Reply #3 on: March 15, 2009, 07:41:52 PM »
      If it's Windows XP, press F10 at Compaq logo to access recovery partition. If it's Vista, press F11.

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        Re: windows xp home edition
        « Reply #4 on: March 16, 2009, 02:06:40 PM »
        Thank You

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        Re: windows xp home edition
        « Reply #5 on: March 16, 2009, 02:07:52 PM »
        Did it work?

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        Re: windows xp home edition
        « Reply #6 on: March 16, 2009, 10:29:07 PM »
        i hope it should work if the recovery partition drive isn't deleted somehow (I think it's usually D drive Compaq sets as and tells you it's a hidden partition not to be deleted so you can recover)