inertiacreeps
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Hi,
I think our laptop (it's kind of a communal laptop in a house full of students) has a pretty bad virus. I think it's beyond repair or cleaning so I was thinking of just wiping out the computer and reinstalling everything and starting over.
We don't have the discs though, but we do have the discs from another system.
The computer in trouble: Dell XPS M140
The computer w/ discs: Dell Inspiron E1505
They are both laptops, and they both run Windows XP Home. Very similar systems (the XPS was just a fancy name for Inspiron)
Can you use the other systems discs to reinstall the drivers, OS, etc.......on this other computer?????
Sorry - I'm not super-computer literate so I hope the question makes sense.
I think our laptop (it's kind of a communal laptop in a house full of students) has a pretty bad virus. I think it's beyond repair or cleaning so I was thinking of just wiping out the computer and reinstalling everything and starting over.
We don't have the discs though, but we do have the discs from another system.
The computer in trouble: Dell XPS M140
The computer w/ discs: Dell Inspiron E1505
They are both laptops, and they both run Windows XP Home. Very similar systems (the XPS was just a fancy name for Inspiron)
Can you use the other systems discs to reinstall the drivers, OS, etc.......on this other computer?????
Sorry - I'm not super-computer literate so I hope the question makes sense.