Cleaning hard drive
I have a HP PAVILION a1203w, windows xp, approx.6 years... When I bought it, I downloaded all the recovery disk... I want to erase everything on the hard drive and reload it as if it was new... in all places I can go to get instructions on how to do it?
Thanks Walsh
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The answers can be found here in this guide. Be sure to back up all your data files (documents, photos, music).
http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/bph07145
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