Reformatting a laptop:Any different from doing a desktop?

[Draeger]

About to go to a mates house to pick up his HP Laptop. It runs at a snails pace and although I'm going to try and clean it up for him, a reformat may be on the cards.

Never done a Laptop before, any differences between it and a desktop when it comes to reformatting?. I read somewhere that some laptop's have their BIOS stored on a partition of the hard drive???!!. Seems a bit odd to me?.

What about drivers etc?. I've asked him if he has the original disks and documentation it came with, hoping there is perhaps a system restore disk, but he knows about as much about computers as I do about astro physics, so he has no idea what discs he has.

 

[Draeger]

Thanks for the heads up!!!.

Wouldnt have thought of looking for that!!.

 

[Draeger]

Ello folks, think I managed to get it running nice and fast now without the need for a reformat.

All it needed was a bit of maintenance done, startup items cut down, temp files cleaned out and a spyware/AV test run.

Then a defrag and its running quicker than ever.

So a result, but if it needs reformatting in the future, I'll know where to come for info.

Thanks again.