Restoring Windows® XP on HP Pavilion p6380t Desktop PC

Guidelines for restoring Windows XP on HP Pavilion p6380t Desktop PC.

The HP Pavilion p6380t Desktop PC is a full-featured and high performance system. It supports multitasking with Intel quad-core processors with dedicated graphics cards, high-definition audio, TV tuner, and Blu-ray DVD drive. The dual-channel DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM helps in photo editing, video streaming, and music downloading. It also provides a choice of 500GB to 2TB SATA hard drives. It also supports optional wireless keyboard and mouse. System Restore is a Windows XP utility that helps you to restore your HP Pavilion p6380t Desktop PC. Using the System Restore tool in Windows XP restores all the partitions on your HP Pavilion p6380t Desktop PC. The presence of malware on the system and loss of username and password are some situations when you need to restore the system. System Restore is effective and easy to use. It automatically saves the changes occurring on your system and creates restore points. Restore points are usually created before installing a new device driver and before the automatic updating of application software.

The following are some of the things that you need to keep in mind while restoring Windows XP on your HP Pavilion p6380t Desktop PC:

• Ensure personal data backup
• Scan for viruses
• Ensure adequate hard disk space

Ensure personal data backup

While restoring Windows XP on your HP Pavilion p6380t Desktop PC, you might lose important files and documents stored on it. Therefore, it is always advisable to maintain a backup of all the data that is important. Windows XP provides a backup utility for the regular backing up of data. Copy the contents to a blank CD or DVD before using System Restore. Such a backup will help you to get back the data.

Scan for viruses

Before restoring Windows XP, remove all the virus programs and infected files from your system. This will help you to restore the operating system by removing all the unwanted files that tend to change or corrupt the system files. It will also help in freeing up the memory by deleting the virus-infected files.

It is necessary to check whether you have enough hard disk space to store the data gathered for creating restore points. A minimum of 200MB free space must be available on the hard disk for creating system restore points. If you allocate more than 200MB, then it might result in better performance of the system. So, use the Disk Cleanup tool if you don’t have enough space.