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I formated my computer! How can I determine my modem name so that I could download drivers from the net???
Take it out and look on it for a make and model. Or get the fcc# and run a trace on it at http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/
Shut the pc off and unplug it first.
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If you can't determine your modem ID by make, model and/or FCC# then look for a name and/or ID number on the largest chip on the modem. Go to your favorite search engine (www.metacrawler.com is my favorite) and enter the ID number. You may well be led to the website of the modems manufacturer. This method has worked for me a couple of times.
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Maybe if you had to buy a license in order to use the format command on a perfectly good hard drive, we wouldn't see nearly so many questions like this. Microsoft oughta have it so that the command causes flashing lights and whistles, and ask you in larger and larger letters ARE YOU SURE YOU NEED to do THIS?
ARE YOU REALLY SURE?Would probably cut the number of posts by about a third. *g*
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Hey jboy, looks like you will get your wish with the new windowsXP. Going to have to bend over in front of His Highness Gates and say "pretty please with sugar on it, may I have another" in order to format and reinstall it. New security will limit you to one or two installs and will even balk if you do any upgrades to your computer. Have to call M$ and get special permission and install number each time you reinstall it.
Either that or go find a crack to disable the new security. Sure such will be available on warez sites shortly after official XP is released.
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liljohn
Your not serious?
Who the hell would buy it, are you refering to windows or is this a new OS. I doubt any1 whow knows anything would buy it. If I got a free copy I would post it back to MS and tell them to make copies for all who participated in the project so they could shove it up there dum asses.
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Not too surprised... it was only a matter of time before a new anti-piracy scheme was implemented. Still - better schemes=better crackers. (Saw Bill on TV today - he's come a long way from the old 'Homebrew' computer club)
And I wasn't singling out poor Danty here - the format command should have been called Disk Destroyer or something ominous. It just seems that a lot of folks feel that formatting is the first thing you do when you get a computer - no matter what - and then they wind up posting here. It's just so unecessary, although it can be educational. *g*
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