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    Jan 22, 2010, 10:28 AM
    Before you go through the pain and heartbreak of restoring the drive, have you:

    1) De-fragged your drive, this will not lose any data files.

    2) Scanned your drive using an app called RegCure?

    Personally, the very last thing I would want to do is re-format the drive.
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    Jan 22, 2010, 10:29 AM
    Yeah... drivers are a major PITA when rebuilding a computer from scratch for the average computer user... if you don't have or can't acess the recovery partition many manufacturers use.
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    Jan 22, 2010, 08:39 PM

    Sorry guys, probably should have updated this thread earlier!

    I did a reformat.

    The only thing I really wanted to keep was my folder with all my photos and videos in it, other than that there was a lot of useless programs that the guy who built it put on there.

    I got a copy of Windows XP Professional and just reloaded it on my computer.
    I had to get into the BIOS and change the order things started up in so the DVD drive loaded first... THAT was scary for me but I did it!

    Everything seems to be running smoothly now apart from my sound, but I have yet to tinker with that to fix it.

    I am still seriously considering Windows 7, a friend of mine can get it cheaper because he is a student (not much but hey, a discount is a discount)

    Thank you to everyone for your help!

    PS - when I loaded it on it never asked for my key!
    I don't know if that's because I didn't do an actual reformat reformat, I just loaded the disk over the top and it deleted everything itself.

    So I spent ages holding my laptop over my head writing the key down for nothing (my screen is stuck open lol) :rolleyes:

    EDIT - Finally found the sound card drivers online, yay.
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