My daughter-in-law has file damage on her lap top from Sasser and Blaster viruses.  I couldn't use her restore disk because she couldn't find it.  All I have myself is the old Windows ME.  So I thought I could format the hard drive and put ME on it.  I had the drivers downloaded that I thought I would need.  But I decided to ask if it was going to cause problems.  

Then a friend took the serial and model numbers and was able to order a restore disk from the manufacturer (which I should have thought of!).  After all I have read here I'm sure it was not a good idea to begin with.  

Thanks for the information!
Brenda Studebaker

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