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Wiping Hard Drive on Dimension 5100
I have a Dell Dimension 5100 which came with Windows XP Media Center Edition already on it. I then bought the Vista Home Premium Edition Upgrade and loaded it onto the computer. Recently I got a virus and I have been thinking about just wiping the hard drive entirely. My question is: If I do a hard drive wipe, will it erase the Vista OS and the XP OS (if it even remains, I don't know) off of the hard drive? If it does, will I be able to recover the XP OS so I can still be able to install my Vista Upgrade onto it? I am not sure if the computer came with any sort of disk with XP OS recovery files or anything.
shesagordie
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April 23rd, 2008 02:00
When you erase [wipe] the hard drive, all the data, including the OS and virus are removed.
As you have the upgrade version of Vista, you would need a copy of XP as qualifying media.
You can request a set of backup discs containing the factory-installed operating system, specific to your system, from here.
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September 29th, 2008 12:00
What if your machine came w/xp media center edition.....you got re-install disk that doesn't contain the media center part... Is there a second disk that would just install that part?
In my case the ghost drive is gone so that's not an option.
My backup disk is Xp Pro SP2.
I reinstalled and no longer have Media Center.
Thanks
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September 29th, 2008 14:00
As far as I know, there is no second disc.
You can request a set of backup discs containing the factory-installed operating system as well as the device drivers and utilities specific to your system from here.
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September 29th, 2008 15:00
Did that....
I already got a confirmation of shipment.
apparently they sent me the wrong re-install discs.
shesagordie
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September 29th, 2008 18:00
That's great, please to hear that Dell is sending the reinstallation discs. :)
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