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Need help sorting pc I just acquired

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Hi, I've acquired a pc, thats password protected, its also running on linux os. i want to use it as it seems to be quite an up to date computer. do I simply get a copy of windows and reinstall it? Im also not to sure how to re-format the harddrive from bios?! or will the windows CD automatically boot when i restart it?
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war-barney wrote:Hi, I've acquired a pc, thats password protected, its also running on linux os. i want to use it as it seems to be quite an up to date computer. do I simply get a copy of windows and reinstall it? Im also not to sure how to re-format the harddrive from bios?! or will the windows CD automatically boot when i restart it?
Probably windows disc, I'd find the specs first incase you need to grab some network drivers or something.

Probably won't though.
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I would find out who the hard drive manufacturer is, go to their website and download their low-level formatting tool and burn it onto a bootable CD-ROM (some manufactures supply an ISO image) or bootable floppy (if the computer has one).
Best way to guarantee a secure, rootkit-free reformatting of hard drives.
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Use ophcrack hack password use linux = win lol. If only game devs would develop for linux sigh!
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^ I wish too for linux games across the board. Granted, I do think Win7 is decent, but I still prefer Linux.
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Vaeyn wrote:^ I wish too for linux games across the board. Granted, I do think Win7 is decent, but I still prefer Linux.
Indd would be nice, the reason most devs give is that there are so many linux distros what may not be an issue on one maybe on another which is understandable I suppose.
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