#1 - i had an issue like that, similar to it, i spoke to a supervisor at dell who conveniently sent me a bottable XP CD of no charge, claiming that it'd do no harm for anyone since losing my other CD isn't something that typically happens with me, and they made an exception...good luck
u do not need to reach yur desktop and enter your login profile to reformat. just enter the bios settings of your motherboard and set your booting mode to boot from cd. then enter your windows cd. now when the computer starts up it will say press any key to boot from cd. click any key then from there it will go through the steps to reformat your hard drive. if u dont know exactly what to do just delete the old partition when the prompt appears and it should then say unpartitioned space. in the new unpartitioned space click whatever key to format or partition that empty space now. after u do that it should format windows into that blank space on your computer.
also since u dont have a windows disc try and ask a friend that has the same version of windows as you. you can use any windows cd to reformat your computer as long as its the same windows version. so if u have windows xp professional u need that cd to be able to reformat.
My computer is done for?
I guess i deleted something my computer needed to run.
So i restart, and windows loads, brings me to log in screen.
i click my profile and it says that windows needs to validate the copy of windows XP [do you want to do this now yes or no?]
i click no to see what happens, and it just says "saving settings" and it acts like its logging off my name and my profile button is clickable again.
I click yes and i see my desktop background for 2 seconds, and then it acts like its logging off my name and my profile button is clickable again.
My computer is from Dell, so i just set up the windowsXP not from a CD or anything.
All i want to know is if there is a way to get to the system restore area, so i can go back to a save point.
I've tried running this in safe mode, but when i get to the screen with my profile it says "Virtual memory to low etc etc." and restarts.
Any ideas?
+ i dont have one, i didnt pirate XP but i just dont know where i placed all that stuff from 2003? :P
Press the windows key + u when you get as far into windows as you can, then click the Microsoft website link.
or
Screw around with the activation popup until you can find the microsoft website link.
Then just type in the address bar where you need to go, such as C:/.
To reformat, which you will have to unless you have a valid cd-key, you need a windows cd and/or boot disk.
Alright thank you very much im going to try that now.
time for new ones anyways :P
so if you lost that, you would have to contact their tech support.
*edit: ask a friend for the disc, too
also since u dont have a windows disc try and ask a friend that has the same version of windows as you. you can use any windows cd to reformat your computer as long as its the same windows version. so if u have windows xp professional u need that cd to be able to reformat.
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