ok follow this i have a ibm thinkpad21 its old but good it was a 2000 windows. my son-in-law has a windowsxp he takes his disk puts it in mine and next thing i know all my info goin and my laptop says windows xp then i had to get a key to use it at all i am not comp smart at all on its inners well now i have windowsxp with 128ram and i am going nuts with the things its doing slow as moses what to do have it repaired where i got it can he put it back to normal and use the info he has where i got it from???? help
2007-03-07 04:23:58 · 5 answers · asked by neet 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
There is a possiblility that you can recover some, if not all, of the data that was on the computer. But you have to ask yourself "how much is it worth?".
Data recover will easily run upwards of $150.
Your best bet would be to just reinstall windows 2000 on the computer. Though you will probably have to have someone do that for you if you do not have the restore disks that have all the drivers on it.
2007-03-07 04:29:10 · answer #1 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
tell your son-in law to learn some very basic knowledge first.
It is not useful for you to have Windows XP since you have too small memory to make it work.
Ask your son-in-law to get that Windows XP out. I believe he is not able to do this, so the best is ask him to pay for that work in a neighborhood computer shop
2007-03-07 12:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by sm bn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you will need to get your cds u got w/ the cpu and reinstall win 2000 but you will lose ur data unless you want to pay a lot of money to recover.
2007-03-07 13:30:34 · answer #3 · answered by S A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just came across a site that sends you a laptop for free! I'm ordering mine right now, it's a Sony VAIO and it looks really hot!
2007-03-07 16:55:09 · answer #4 · answered by Jeannie B 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
time for your daughter to get divorced. New law- a women can get divorce if husband messes up with in-laws laptop
2007-03-07 12:27:37 · answer #5 · answered by Forest Breeze 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋