Summary: hi, anyone know where i can get a boot recovery cd for my t21 ibm laptop? i lost mine and need to reinstall my os but cant get all the drivers for a ...
Summary: My hard drive died, so bought a new one.... No big deal , right!?! Went to install W2K and can't find CD. I have the 4 setup disks, but then it ask...
Summary: I want to re-format my drive cause its haveing a lot of problems...thing is I lost disk 2 of the "HP pavillion system recovery" cds, I was wondering i...
Summary: I highly doubt it would work as those recovery CD's are specific to the machine they were made for. You'ld likely find you have errors like crazy if ...
Summary: The Fujitsu may have actually only offered a Recovery CD, that is not the same as a OEM CD. Manufacturers quite often customise to suit there PC's. It...
Summary: Ouch… I go along in principle with ‘most’ anti-piracy issues. However, I tend to dislike the 'locking' of ‘full version’ OS CD's that you ‘buy’ with y...
Summary: You're joking right? If you take the HD from a different machine and stick it in a gateway and use the proprietary gateway "recovery CD" to install a...
Summary: Hello everyone- Today I ran the reinstallation CD for the OS (win2000) that came with my dell. I chose to do a clean install, and it had one par...
Summary: My Toshiba laptop has Win2000 on it. It just suddenly died and couldn't startup anymore. Each time when it startup, the Toshiba logo will flash at for...
Summary: I have seen this come up on a laptop with a bad motherboard. You could try the ibm web site for win2k drivers, or use the recovery cd to reinstall if ...
Summary: I'm having trouble loading my drivers after I install windows 2000 pro on an hp pavilion 8000. I try to load my drivers and It wont let me do it and I...
Summary: I have an IBM A40i 2284-55U with factory installed WinME in C: 20 GB partition, 8 GB in extended partition, and a 40GB drive installed without drive l...
Summary: You can try a friend's win2000 cd, just to run the chkdsk /r. Other than that, she will need to buy a new OS cd. Does she have a dell or gateway compu...
Summary: You're all right, although it beats the hell outta me as to why this is happening. I swapped the existing hard drive with a freshly formatted drive, a...
Summary: I have the same problem and trying to resolve it. I have Sony Vaio Laptop which came with XP home edition on C drive (partion 1). I installed W2K on t...
Summary: You can certainly format a drive without any Windows CDs. That will of course give you a clean HDD. If you want to install an OS, you'll have to have...
Summary: If you have an ATA 66 or higher hard disk and an ATA 66 or higher IDE controller (most post-99 machines will), ensure that you have an 80-conductor ID...
Summary: Thanks to FJ for this little GEM... I suspect this has all come about because of M$ pressure on Dell etc. regarding their (Dell etc.) issuing full ver...
Summary: Check first that you have the complete version of win2k if you are to install it. Generally, nowadays the Dell, Acer, Gateway doesn't ship complete ve...
Summary: Simply put the bootable win2K CD the machine and turn the PC on. The machine will go through the usual setup screens so pay attention. You will get pr...
Summary: I need to add a slave hard drive to an ACER computer that has a recovery CD only for Win 2000. My research into Win 2000 leaves me with the feeling th...