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    Clean Install for v3000t Windows Home Edition

    Discussion in 'HP' started by anino, Aug 29, 2006.

  1. anino

    anino Newbie

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    My compaq v3000t arrived, and it is very pretty except for a small hiccup. Bloatware and recovery and other things combined have taken up 18GB of my hard drive.

    I did order for the HP recovery disk. I have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner. My question is this -- how do I go about safely re-installing a no bloat version of XP Home? I dont have any of my data on this m/c yet, so no need for any special backup.

    If this has been discussed before, my apologies. Please let me know where I can find the related article!

    Thanks
    Anindya
     
    anino, Aug 29, 2006
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    anino Newbie

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    Someone help me here -- what will I lose if I go ahead and re-install Windows from the CD HP gave me, and **** the stuff that came prepackaged?

    My university provides me most of the software I need, so should I just go ahead and re-install windows?
     
    anino, Aug 29, 2006
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  3. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Follow the dv2000t re-installation guide(see sticky). The V3000t and the dv2000t are basically the same hardware wise.
     
    miner, Aug 29, 2006
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