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I need to reinstall dos
Name: paul-the-clueless Date: January 14, 2005 at 17:15:25 Pacific OS: none at the moment CPU/Ram: 533mhz/95mb
Comment:
I tried to use Compaq's system restore tool and ended up deleting any trace of an operating system. Please help!
Name: jboy Date: January 14, 2005 at 18:36:56 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like a Windows issue - there's not much to be done in DOS if all you have is a 'recovery disk' - check your documentation
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Response Number 2
Name: CrashCore Date: January 22, 2005 at 12:00:00 Pacific
Reply:
Go to http://www.bootdisk.com for boot disks for DOS, Windows, Linux, and some nice utilities.
Summary: Help! I have an old 486 that I FDISKed and I need to reinstall DOS on it so that I can install either Win 3.1 or Win 95 on it. If anyone has MS-DOS 6.0 or higher I would appreciate it. Any tips on ...
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