Let's see if I got this right. When the guy re-partitioned my hard drive (he did this, I remember), then what I need to do is put a cd rom thing in my cd drive and copy recovery files and make my own recovery discs?

Is that right?

Now. and I don't know if this matters but my lightscribe dvd rom thing doesn't work. My cd rom thing works fine.

So How do I find these recovery files, where are they? and I gather I do the drag and drop to the cd rom thing?

Or am I completely off the loop here.
I think it's easier to go and buy a router and laptop and replace this old workhorse but I really want to keep it.

Stupid me, I thought if I reformatted it it would be like it came from the factory.

But I'm not crazy. I once remember that we did this some years ago. We did a default thing by pressing one of the F keys and it did something to the system and it made my computer like it just came from the factory.

It re-set everything to a default stage (or something like that).

Am I crazy here?

Melody