help for windows xp Options

[learninghowtofal...]

I did the hp recovery on my computer, and after, it was still messed up. When the recovery was dome a message came up that said something like "there isn't enough room on disk, but windows will start anyway".

Now my computer is slow and I can't install anything, like antivirus programs- i know i have a lot of spyware. And I can't use windows media player.

I have windows xp, but all of the pop up messages are in windows classic form. Grey with the dark bule to white bar at the top. And I can't add a desktop backround, it's only a blue backround.

Can somebody help?

[IGB]

well check your physical drives. How much space do you have on C: (or wherever your OS is)? How much do you have total? is that the right number?

Coz you MIGHT have messed up the PARTITION. meaning either
a: not enough room distributed onto your system drive. too much on the other one(s).
b: only made 1 partition, the rest are being unused.

usually a RECOVERY CD from OEM computers reset partitions for you, so logically you aren't supposed to have that problem. Unless:
a: your recovery cd allows you to specify partition by yourself.
b: HP has turned so stupid that they can't even make recovery cds anymore.

but then again, my gf's toshiba recovery cd had options when she recovered. One of the options was to keep the partition while recovering. it's a japanese computer, that model is not even available here in the stats; it might be different from most of the computers here. But it's possible that it's a partition problem even though you're using OEM recovery cds.

So do recovery AGAIN, make sure if you're given options, choose FACTORY SETTINGS, or ORIGINAL SETTINGS or something that sounds like that. It should be fine. if you are absolutely sure that everything's done perfectly, then it's a hardware problem, might need to get a new harddrive.