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Hey,

I want to reformat my computer the quickest way possible. I'm currently running Windows XP on my laptop. Is there a way which I can simply download something of the Internet, put it onto a CD and it will completely re format my whole computer? I lost the disc which was supposed to come with my Laptop that would do this for me and have tried to get in contact with the company but I have had little success with this.

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i dont think anyone can help you with that here as that would be classed as piracy i think.
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You can't download anything as that would be piracy. What make is your laptop?
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yes we cant tell you how but im sure you could find out else where...
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You can't download anything as that would be piracy. What make is your laptop?
Toshiba Satellite A80.

Can you give me links or point me in the right direction or would that also be illegal?

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try ringing toshiba, see what they recommend. and no we cant post links as it would be promoting piracy
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You need to ring Toshiba and make them send you a recovery disk. They may charge your for it but they are meant to give you a new one if you lose it.

Get on the phone to them and give them hell till they agree to send you one! They can be a real pain.
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Well lufc6, if you want just to format your computer (without downloading a windows xp disk, as that would be piracy), there's a way you could accomplish it.
Find a Linux live CD -- that's the second time a suggest doing it on this forum =P -- and boot with it. Most of those, like Ubuntu, have Gparted or some software for partition management you could use to format your partition. Read some tutorials on that matter to get more information.
If that's what you want, to simply format, that's how I would do it.
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Well lufc6, if you want just to format your computer (without downloading a windows xp disk, as that would be piracy), there's a way you could accomplish it.
Find a Linux live CD -- that's the second time a suggest doing it on this forum =P -- and boot with it. Most of those, like Ubuntu, have Gparted or some software for partition management you could use to format your partition. Read some tutorials on that matter to get more information.
If that's what you want, to simply format, that's how I would do it.
well that wouldnt be very helpfull would it, he wants a fresh xp install not a blank drive.
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well that wouldnt be very helpfull would it, he wants a fresh xp install not a blank drive.
I agree, you definitely don't want to do that until you have a new OS ready to install on to it. And anyway, you could just use the OS that you are going to install to format the partition for you. No need for Linux anyway
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I agree, you definitely don't want to do that until you have a new OS ready to install on to it. And anyway, you could just use the OS that you are going to install to format the partition for you. No need for Linux anyway
He never mentioned that he was going to format his OS partition. No need to mention that if it is as you say, another solution is needed. Since Linux is a free solution, and he says that he lost his disk, I've suggested this .
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He never mentioned that he was going to format his OS partition. No need to mention that if it is as you say, another solution is needed. Since Linux is a free solution, and he says that he lost his disk, I've suggested this .
Yes but if he does this then he will have no OS to install once it is formatted

So he will have to get the disks anyway and then he wouldn't have to bother with Linux

But I get what you are saying
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i`d personally just say buy a new windows xp cd.you can download windows xp etc from piracy but it doesn`t work,so it`s pretty pointless cause the activation key don`t work.
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i`d personally just say buy a new windows xp cd.you can download windows xp etc from piracy but it doesn`t work,so it`s pretty pointless cause the activation key don`t work.
The problem is he already owns a perfectly legal copy of XP. Why should he have to pay for it again?

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i`d personally just say buy a new windows xp cd.you can download windows xp etc from piracy but it doesn`t work,so it`s pretty pointless cause the activation key don`t work.
if Toshiba dosent give you the disk that you should be entitled to there are pirated versions which work without a cd key. as you allready own a legal copy it may not be legal to download it but it is the moral thing to do.
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