I bought a new laptop(XP Pro) from Tek Serve & received no XP pro cd with it. The hard drive has no partition & I'm at a loss at what to do if I get a "your files have gone pearshaped please insert your windows cd...etc" or if I want to reformat. Tek serve have demanded £95 + shipping if I want a cd. Surely this can't be right & can I function without the OS cd?
did you check the hd to see if there was a folder for the windows cd?? did you get a key# for windows with the laptop?
what they said was that they would give me the laptop with XP installed at no extra cost to me which seems a bit like buying a car & getting charged extra for the keys. What do I do in the event of "please insert your Windows cd..." ?
so u ordered it over the online and probably used a credit card return the damn pc since most credit card issuer have some sort refund policy.
Hey i dont have the windows xp home recovery cd also where could i download it from? i have the product key
get Norton Ghost, its good to create a backup of your hard drive and then you can restore the image if things turn fruity <?LOL?> or what else you could do is complain to Microsoft and see what they have to say... or you could try a free alternative such as Linux (my favorite even though i use windows) it is good cause its free and can do everything if not more than windows... lots of distro's available
Here's my $0.02. Try Acronis True Image to make a backup image of your drive after you have reintalled Win XP and all the programs that you want. Store that image on a partition ( I recommend Acronis Partition Expert) and no matter what happens thereafter your can easily restore your drive. BTW both programs allows you to make bootable disc during their installation.
A bootable disc contains the necessary system files for you to restore your OS. The following links might help you: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;310994&spid=1173&sid=156 and/or www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?id=160&object=article.cfm
