John Barnett - MVP
December 5th 03, 09:05 PM
Not without the recovery disk or you having to purchase a
full retail copy, i'm afraid. Even the restore point will
only be bale tot ake you back so far, depending upon how
many restore points xp created and how many are still
available for you to use.
Hope this helps
John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I recently bought an HP computer with Windows XP on it.
I
>didn't receive a recovery disk with it. I realize that I
>can do a system restore from an earlier restore point,
>but is there a way to take my machine back to when I
>first purchased it?
>.
>
full retail copy, i'm afraid. Even the restore point will
only be bale tot ake you back so far, depending upon how
many restore points xp created and how many are still
available for you to use.
Hope this helps
John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I recently bought an HP computer with Windows XP on it.
I
>didn't receive a recovery disk with it. I realize that I
>can do a system restore from an earlier restore point,
>but is there a way to take my machine back to when I
>first purchased it?
>.
>