gpedit

[jd2kuk]

Did your laptop come with a recovery disk? That'll have all the drivers on it already. You won't be installing a shiny new copy of XP, but it'll save you installing a multitude of drivers.

[ICT Tech]

no, it didnt

[jd2kuk]

Hmm, okay, did your laptop come with any software built-in to recover it? I'd be really surprised if there wasn't some way to restore it to its factory fresh state

[ICT Tech]

no, you may be suprised now, there's no way at all.

[jd2kuk]

Ok, I've been looking through the support for these E system laptops, and they are seriously rubbish.

Right, go to start -> run... and type "diskmgmt.msc" (without the quotes); click ok. Once it's loaded, take a screenshot, then attach to a post.

[ICT Tech]

I know this sounds stupid, but it wouldnt let me upload a .bmp, so ive winrar'd the bmp image.

Disk Management.rar

(32.4 KiB) Downloaded 137 times

Here you go.

[jd2kuk]

Hmm, looks like there's no recovery options whatsoever

You could try taking the driver from this page:

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http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID={9c7859a7-d7d2-4550-bc1a-1d468d285a42}&CatID={726deefa-d5c5-4a90-978e-aed8efb863ed}

PS: Upload screenshots as JPEG's instead of BMP's to save yourself the hassle

[ICT Tech]

na, none of this worked, its all for vista

[jd2kuk]

What a rubbish website.

Lol, how about trying this...

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3 ... 6&x=13&y=2

Might just be a lot easier than reinstalling windows!

[ICT Tech]

no, none of that worked either, i dunno wat the hell is wrong.