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I've decided to sell my laptop and would like a clean install of Windows I tried the recover CD's got half way through and found an error lol.
Well I've got myself a copy of windows xp pro the only problem is my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, Does anyone know where I can find a Windows XP Pro Boot CD?
Verified hash in Softwareworld here ;)
Though I'm not sure it's got SP2 integrated...
edit: spelling
if you have XP Pro, all you need to do is set your BIOS to boot from CD and your done.......
though it wouldnt help to get that XP version, since its the CORP version you dont have to activate it.......... saves alot of trouble ;)
I'd run one of those programs like killdisk just to make sure the new owner doesn't recover any of your old files.
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Originally Posted by ROSSCO_2004
Good idea ,I bought a computer from a kindly old neighbour , Could not beleive the porn , or links to Butt Buddies . TSK TSK !
:lol: as bad as it gets. didn't even clear his internet files. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by peat moss
haha, peoples these day --;
I fix computers for a living, the people you do not really believe they would be surfing pron are usually the ones doing it. Go figure.
Pr0n is the least of it. The guy who originally wrote this eye opening article was retrieving PIN and CC numbers from hard drives that had previously resided in ATMs and cash registers ... and he was just doing it as a hobby.
hahaha.......... yeah, we had this here............ last week someone with a high rank at the justice department here in holland put his laptop in the trash (cause it didnt work anymore)......... a taxi driver saw it, took it home and was able to get it to work within minuits....... a shitload of confidential information was on that (of alot of very important cases and such).........
people can be VERY ignorant when it comes to computers :P
He's just throws a laptop in the trash. :rolleyes: What an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm
Wish I was that rich. :crying:
yeah, but it didnt work, remember??? (but the was pressing the escape button or something to turn it on :P
And I though I was the only one with this kind of hobby. There is a lot of data out there. I mostly by the hard drives to rebuild used systems and sell them to lower income families. But you would be surprized the data I find sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by uNz[i]
:rolleyes:
Everywhere, since that's how it comes.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ X