Posting from my old 200mzh pionex (faster than my newer computer, i'm sad),,, anyways,, I'm doing something to windows rite now, i did a system restore set to 20 days ago but it didn't help at all. So I think I'm reformatting windows, I'm not sure, I hit F10 during the HP boot up screen, and instead of the non-destructive recovery, i'm doing the full out recovery, but because something is messed up, it's taking forever, I figure I got atleast 4 more hours before it's done. If this doesn't help, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
HP doesn't include a XP boot up disk, they say to just do recoveries from the hard drive partition. I tried calling their support, and they want $30 for a week's support, screw that. The computer is VERY slow from the second I turn it on, so I don't think it's just a problem with windows,, but I don't know what the problem is. I don't see anywhere to run a scandisk,, I tried it in the command prompt, and tried chkdisk, neither worked. Before this, I would defrag atleast once a week, computer is clean of ad-ware,etc. No unneeded programs on startup. It went from playing GTA3 fine to barely running just a few hours later. I'm about ready to throw the thing out the window. It's been doing whatever it's doing for 2 hours now with only 30% done..... I guess we'll see what happens,,, Dude, I think I mite empty my wallet and just get a dell.
