hard drive restore disc?

[Austin-182]

who can help here, my laptop is so slow and all the memory has allmost gone my gf has said i can do a hard drive restore and it will be a lot faster than it is now, but said i need the disc that came with the laptop
so...what if i no longer have this disc lol?

 

[iain187]

try the manufacturers website, if you're in warranty that might even send it to you for free

post the make and model of your laptop might help

 

[Austin-182]

no warrenty mate its 4 year old now, its a Dell inspiron 6400

 

[Wilkeh]

Get an external hard drive and copy all the stuff you want to keep. Then format and re-install windows again, will be like brand new mate.

 

[guysy]

Does it have a recovery partition?

If not i think there might be an option to burn a recovery disk in which possibly after you've burnt the disk it can re install a fresh version of the operating system.

 

[Austin-182]

THE ONLY THING ON HERE THAT I WANT TO KEEP IS LOADS OF PICTURES REALLY SO I CAN TRANSFER THEM ON TO A DISK/USB MEMORY CARD
CAPS LOCK!! recovery partition, i dont understand this word mate lol?
how do i go about the, format, reinstall windows?

 

[sbridgey]

if you do this you will have to reinstall all of your programs again which can be a pain, just to warn you

slightly complicated but what would be best is for you to restore your laptop, install your programs, then clone the hard drive then everytime it goes slow you can restore the image(clone) and hey presto back as new without having to reinstall all of your programs, bit of a faff but can be useful if you know what you are doing