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fwor wrote: »

How about this one?:

That I can understand.

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jakeandme wrote: »

apparently their son mucked about with a partition program and managed to wipe the restoration partition.

Now just got c&e. All the windows stuff running on c and e empty.

As they now can't find the recovery disc i think i will now just put ubuntu on as the os as it will only be used for surfing the net and printing posters/letters, i have looked and the old but working printer that came with it is supported.

For the third time...

Service Tag? Are you there?

Jakeandme

When i go to the club i will have a look at the service tag and let you know.

SteveJH200

If you can't find the service tag then install Speccy http://www.filehippo.com/download_speccy and run it. It will be listed in the motherboard section.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

poppellerant wrote: »

In your first post, you mentioned CCL found something - what is CCL?

think it might be CCleaner.

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Jakeandme wrote: »

When i go to the club i will have a look at the service tag and let you know.

You need the Service Tag so that you can download the correct Drivers for the machine. Plus I will know which version of XP is licenced for use on the machine, so as to send you the correct disc. But you can confirm to me whether Home or Professional is written on the Microsoft Certicate of Authenticity sticker.
No trouble for me, especially as it's a good cause.

You might as well stick with XP as it's already licenced and it's just a matter of getting hold of the disc.

How much RAM is in the thing?

Jakeandme

Hi all

Service tag 1363 TOJ
Service code 02368436131

Yep Carp Cleaner

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name NEW
System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
System Model OptiPlex GX260
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1992 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A06, 28/04/2003
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name NEW\Ian
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 71.91 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.22 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Jakeandme

Operating System
MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Pentium 4
Northwood 0.13um Technology
RAM
512 MB DDR @ 132MHz (2.5-3-3-6)
Motherboard
Dell Computer Corp. 02X378 (Microprocessor)
Graphics
Default Monitor (1152x864@75Hz)
Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
Hard Drives
156GB Seagate ST3160021A (PATA) 34 °C
Optical Drives
PHILIPS PCRW5232P
Audio
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

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Jakeandme wrote: »

Hi all

Service tag 1363 TOJ
Service code 02368436131

That does not appear to be a valid Service Tag. You can use the PC to navigate to this page and choose Automatically detect my Service Tag for me .

That will lead you to the correct Drivers.

The XP Recovery Disc is in your PM Inbox.

londonTiger

Jakeandme wrote: »

Apparently their son mucked about with a partition program and managed to wipe the restoration partition.

Now just got C&E. all the windows stuff running on C and E empty.

As they now can't find the recovery disc i think i will now just put Ubuntu on as the OS as it will only be used for surfing the net and printing posters/letters, i have looked and the old but working printer that came with it is supported.

the problem with linux is that your users might not be familiar with it, and not be able to use it.

windows can be safe, if you let users login from a basic account and not admin, it wont be possible for them to install malware and stuff. periodically you just log in as admin, delete the basic account and create a new one to flush out the accumulated junk