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Recovery my Aptiva+About Dos!
Name: Pippo22 Date: August 20, 2003 at 01:55:46 Pacific OS: W3.1 CPU/Ram: 486
Comment:
I'd like to reistall Windows 3.1 on my old IBM Aptiva 486.I've his original CD called:" Recovery CD PartN°8124957 etc.". I lost his boot disk.I tried to install by another Dos boot disk but it doesn't work. Do I have to change something in the Dos boot disk? I've a question if I download an old version of Dos like 4.0 or5.0 from Web is it illegal? Nobody are selling them anymore so? Thanks for any help..uh! this site is GREAT! I'm learning always new things reading that!
Name: x86 Date: August 20, 2003 at 02:26:51 Pacific
Reply:
All Microsoft products are still licensed period, though OpenDOS/DRDOS is free for personal use, or you could use FREEDOS which is like Linux free within the terms of the open source license agreement.
As to your Aptiva problems have you looked in IBM support they still have lots of info available, though a Recovery Disk is not a full version, the manufacturer installs a hidden partition on the hard drive which the recovery CD accesses.
Please do not respond asking for copies of M$ software here, as this site will be in danger of being hounded by M$
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