Reinstalling/Emachine/Clean HD

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Brucefl

Have a friends emachine which he wants cleaned off. It has 3 Restore CD's
that I assume have XP on them.

Anyone know if when I use the restore cd's if it will clean the HD
completely off, then reinstall?

I also don't see any product key on the Windows XP emachine book. Is this
automatically installed?

Thanks
 
Usually, an emachine will have a "Certificate of Authority" attached to the machine with a sticker on the back.

Yes, the restore CD's will repartition it. (It can be done manually, in any case, if Recovery Console is an option.)

Clean install (format disk) Boot to the XP setup CD,press 'R" for the repair prompt, and run the command DISKPART to remove the
existing partition, and then boot to CD, and run Setup.


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