Posted: 2/13/2009 5:46:47 PM EDT
| I have a 5 yr old gateway laptop I am trying to resurect for utility purposes. It has a 2GHz Celeron and 512Mof DDR2 Ram, 40G hard drive..<br />I want to wipe the drive and reinstall my Gateway XP and drivers. How should I go about this to insure I can boot from the CD drive after reformat/wipe, and what is the best method to do this.<br />I am doing this because it has gotten incredibly slow and I am betting some windows files are missing or corrupt. <br />I am fairly computer savvy, I just haven't messed around with laptops too much.<br />Any advice is appreciated. I just plan to use this for some equipment interface, web surfing, and possibly for a camera security system. |