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| I have a question for all those PC guru's out there? |
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| redcoats:
I bought a used older PC on ebay some months ago and the PC came with Xandros 3.0.1 OC. Now this PC didn't come with any software whatsoever. I tried to do a reformat of it and now Im stuck. I put a Win98 emergency boot disk in it to get FDisk to come up to reformat and everything seemed to format correctly but I wasn't able to use my Win98 CD because it is a set manufactures disk so it can only be used on one of my other PC's. I figured that wouldn't be a problem so I went ahead and tried to install WinXP. I made sure I had the boot sequence correct in the CMOS, well it won't use the CDRom to boot even though I changed the sequence. So I went online and got the |
| SirPoonga:
Try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/ |
| redcoats:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on December 21, 2005, 07:19:32 pm ---Try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/ --- End quote --- Wow thank you! I'll give this a whirl and see what happens. |
| DaveJ-UK:
If you only have a Dell Windows CD, you can (legally) download a "vanilla" image of the Windows CD and install from that, using the same CD key (found on the COA) that you were originally using. |
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