Basically I've just bought a second hand laptop, which is full useless stuff so I want to either restor it to factory settings or wipe the hardrive and reinstall windows, I would be grateful if you could give me some advice.

It's a packard bell
Intel celeron
1200MHz

have you got the recovery disc?

Originally Posted by brain_damage

have you got the recovery disc?

i havent got any discs! is it possiable 2 do it any other way???

Some Packard Bell's have a Recovery Option on the hard drive:

http://www.packardbell.co.uk/special...0/01xpmt10.htm

If yours does not Packard Bell may sell Recovery Disks or else you can purchase a retail XP CD.