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[victorroemer]

[INDENT]Worry for this really lame post but its so shocking what happened that I feel it must be told. [/INDENT]

First off if you have a recovery drive on your pc (mines D:/) then never ever ever run Window washer free space cleaner on the guttman scan. Ya well you see I ran this scan and rebooted what happend totally scared me windows created a new account set it as default logon. After i got over this i tried loging onto the internet and oops, no good, realised I had no network conections! where did they go?

Latter that night I phoned my ISP where we latter relised All my drivers were gone, after that they said they couldnt dop anything for me so I called HP (makers of my pc) where I had to talk with some guy in India which I couldnt understand (sorry, no offence to anyone) they said that I would have to pay for additional support that really wouldnt help. After many cups of coffee I called good ole Microsoft gave them a bunch of shit and went to bed in a bad mood...

Now There is some good news, with the recent destruction of my computer I have decide to buy a Copy of windows Xp ( now this to some doesnt seem important but my purchase of the computer did not come with a cd containing win xp and this has been on my list for a very long time) and to upgrade to a few bigger hard drives and maybe a few gigs of memory

[Reedbeta]

Your computer came with Windows installed but no disc that you can use to reinstall Windows from? That's bullshit, and you should yell at HP about that. They should at least provide a disc-image that has all the software your computer came with. You paid for it after all.

[Mihail121]

Reedbeta is right, normally a disk with all software (OS, drivers, latest version of DX, Adobe Acrobat,...) is shipped with a new computer. Are you absolutely sure it's HP you bought it from? Wierd...

[moe]

When I bought my notebook from dell I remember you had to select a checkbox. It was indicating whether you want to buy a CD with the OS or not. On a first though it might be logical that you would buy an OS. After all you want to use your PC. However if it would be mandatory you would buy an OS each time you buy new hardware (a new PC). None the less it’s surprising that you did not have a single copy yourself. Every programmer should have at least one.

[gamerdude3045]

Well my comp didnt come with software disks either.

[Jarrod]

just relax, the program probably just erased references to your drivers. either do a system restore or go to hp's site on someone elses computer and download the drivers.
and i'm sure your computer came with some disc (they're called system restore or system recovery) if not then i would call hp and tell them to send you a replacement one, they'll probably have to varify you bought one of thier products some how though.
If your pc is an emachine then i know for a fact that they have a seperate partition for restoring your windows install so no need for a disc.
but either way there's no need for all the fuss you're making.

[haxorphreak]

So it wasn't just me who recieved an HP computer without a disk.