I have a 4 year old Dell Computer that i would lke to wipe completely clean and give it to my 5 year old niece. I believe the computer picked up a viruse about 6 months ago because now when I try to turn it on, it won't boot up. the computer is no longer under warranty and I no longer have the recovery CD's given to me by Dell, so what do I do. If necessary, I can purchase CD's from a computer store to fix this problem. I need step-by-step instructions on how to clean up this computer. I am not very familiar with the in's and out's of a computer so please, when you reply speak very simple to me and be very detailed so that I may follow along easily. Your help is greatly appreciated.....:confused:
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Jump to PostDo you have data that should be backuped stored in that computer? If you dont have any data that you need, you can do a clean install by reformatting that hard drive. That will be the easiest. Keep me posted.
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Oh and tell me if it is a desktop …
Jump to PostFrom your pm I got the following specs for the Dell Dimension 4550
120GB hard drive,
64MB GeForce4 MX 420-based card to a 128MB ATI Radeon 9700 TX
2.67-GHz Pentium 4 processor,
memory from 256MB to 512MB
Are these correct to your knowledge?Anyway since you are doing a …
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