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my new motherboard

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by dbarber20, 16 Jan 2007.

  1. dbarber20

    dbarber20 What's a Dremel?

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    On my old pc setup i use to get a start up screen with a packardbell logo And from there i could press f11 and get a console that allowed me to reformat my c drive. But i just got a new motherboard and case now the startup screen is now a asus setup and i can no longer reformat my c drive because i have no disk it was all done from packard bell screen HOW ELSE CAN I DO IT

    Any help would be greatly apresated ​
     
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  2. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    Secondly, you need to buy a new copy of XP, you should have done this when you bought your components, the Packard Bell system has it's copy of XP licensed to it, that license is most likely OEM so is 100% locked.
     
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  3. Guest-16

    Guest-16 Guest

    You go out and buy a copy of XP. Put it in the drive and boot from it.
     
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  4. Mother-Goose

    Mother-Goose 5 o'clock somewhere

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    Get an OEM version of xp home with Sp2, its cheap.
     
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