Soundguy
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- Mar 11, 2002
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- Central florida
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at work we have an acter extensa 5620 ( 5620-6830 )
it travels to and from the jobsite... it's been running slow a while and regualr malware and antivirus checks don't show anything.. but it has had a bajillion software titles installed on and oof and many removed, over the years.
We got no budget to repalce, and I'm using my OWN netbook here at work ( gotta love the construction industry! ).. anyway.
I went back tot he back office to take a look.
doesn't appear that it has an oe restore cd.. so i figured it had a restore partition.. didn't find it.. but curiously did notice in my computer it showed a c and a d drive.. both 88.1g display tag on the machine shows it was equipped with a single 200gig hdd.
hopping into bios i figured I'd see a single hdd, and figured it was partitioned.. but I find 2 physical hdd's and the dvd drive.
my ?guess? is the previous guy in the back office had a ?crash? and had a new hdd instaleld and someone perhaps cloned the drive over or reinstalled vista home on it.. but it now no longer has a restore partition?
anything ia'm missing here?
I'd love to get this machine back up and going a bit faster.. it crawls right now..
opinions..
it travels to and from the jobsite... it's been running slow a while and regualr malware and antivirus checks don't show anything.. but it has had a bajillion software titles installed on and oof and many removed, over the years.
We got no budget to repalce, and I'm using my OWN netbook here at work ( gotta love the construction industry! ).. anyway.
I went back tot he back office to take a look.
doesn't appear that it has an oe restore cd.. so i figured it had a restore partition.. didn't find it.. but curiously did notice in my computer it showed a c and a d drive.. both 88.1g display tag on the machine shows it was equipped with a single 200gig hdd.
hopping into bios i figured I'd see a single hdd, and figured it was partitioned.. but I find 2 physical hdd's and the dvd drive.
my ?guess? is the previous guy in the back office had a ?crash? and had a new hdd instaleld and someone perhaps cloned the drive over or reinstalled vista home on it.. but it now no longer has a restore partition?
anything ia'm missing here?
I'd love to get this machine back up and going a bit faster.. it crawls right now..
opinions..