You need the recovery disk or the winxp disk to boot from, you cannot format
win within win

"mary" wrote in message
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i need to reformat a computor but it tells me that it is locked what do i
do
and what f button do i use so i could set the computor to the factory set


"ling" wrote:

Hello,

I need to reformat my computer. However, I have lost or misplaced my
original Windows XP Home edition SP2 CD. Do I have to buy another Windows
XP
Installation CD or is there another way I can reformat my computer?
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Annie