Desktop - slooowly running 530J

My office is a 530J, near 5 years old, running Windows XP.  I regularly run anti-virus & anti-spyware, the hard disk has been defragmented, and it works still slow.  I think its probably time to just format the hard drive, reinstall the o/s & start to clean.

But how exactly do I do this?  The basic motivation is (C) and (d) partition.  The partition is labeled as HP_Recovery factory.  Apart from backup my stuff important to my portable media player (I do now), where should I go from here?  I don't want to wreck anything.

Your help is appreciated in advance.

If you can start the recovery partition, then you should be able to system recovery for your return to fresh plant.  I hope that the recovery partition is intact.   There may be an option in the recovery process to back up your data.  Progress of recovery will do the reformatting.  If you do not see an option to save your data and you really need then stop.  You can always take your PC to a local repair store and they can recover your data.

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