| I'm going to assume you're new to this, so just in case you have any doubts here's the whole process. Forgive me if this is overly pedantic.
Go into control panel, system, hardware tab, device manager or whatever (open up the trees) and write down your drivers , google and download those for all your basic shit if you don't have a set of all them handy. Usually though windows will be able to take care of you automatically if you bought your computer from a major manufacturer, but it never hurts.
Download those somewhere like on a USB key or CD, and aside from personal data you're good to go. (e.g. reinstall windows by putting in your cd, restarting the computer, loading from cd drive, formating old hard drive using the windows installer (NTFS), installing on fresh one, then loading up your drivers from said CD (cd is good in case you are fucked and it didn't load any USB drivers.
Try to get a hold of a copy of either a version of home w/ SP2 or just DLing Sp2 on your aforementioned cd so you aren't immediately fucked when you connect to the internet to patch up your copy of windows. I would also recommend a real firewall afterwards. |