Finally, a working laptop
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I'll do it, but it'll cost you a pretty penny to ship it. Would you rather me try to walk you though it? Have we done this before?
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When I was much younger and liked to play with everything (including registry) it was often my first resort. Of course back then, it was a 20 minute process.
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Later on, they just started putting the contents of the discs in a partition of the hard drive. In this case, you'll see a "Press F## for recovery" message just before Windows loads. If you see a prompt like that (on HP'*, it'* F11), you can recover that way.
(Sidenote: that and base-2 math are why your system'* 160 GB hard drive shows up in My Computer as only about 140 GB.)