From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: December 30, 2008
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: reinstalling windows without CDs for applications
>
> Leo,
> I recently bought a new laptop, an Acer Aspire 5315 and am extremely
> unhappy with the Windows Vista on it. It appears to make my pc
> extremely slow and I am so frustrated. I just want to change back to
> XP but if I dont have the disks for all the applications that came with
> the pc, what must I do? What does partitioning mean because the pc
> seems to have two seperate hard drives...
Without the CDs to reinstall applications from scratch you
have an issue. Reinstalling the OS would wipe out those
applications and you'd have no way to recover.
Note that this is true if your hard disk ever dies
or you need to reinstall everything for some other
reason.
I would pursue trying to get the installation media
you need from the computer manufacturer.
Partitioning means pretty much what it sounds like:
a single physical hard disk is partitioned so that
it looks like two or more. Computer manufacturer's
often create a recover partition, for examples.
--
Thanks for asking,
Leo Notenboom
Article 1803
| Category:
Windows
