xp question

scbamaboy2002scbamaboy2002
edited February 2008 in Science & Tech
I have a laptop that I gave up working on a few months ago out of frustration. I have a second wind now and have a question. If I reformat the entire drive and reinstall xp...will my MS office still be there? it was installed on the Dell XPS when the computer was ordered but I have no hard disk for it. For those interested in the situation... http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?p=569989#post569989

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    No, office will not be there. The very definition of formatting means any information contained on the drive will be (For all intents and purposes) deleted.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2008
    If you have the recovery cd's or a repair partition on your harddrive then doing a system recovery should replace everything back to like they day you first turned it on.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited February 2008
    Dell usually does NOT send you the CD for Office and they almost NEVER give out there site license code for office.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2008
    A friend of mine just bought a dell laptop 4 months ago. It came with a recovery cd and a seperate office license.
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