Just spent the best part of three days attempting to restore my brothers PC to some level of normality.
It's a nice machine, AMD Athlon I admit, the real trick is when trying to RESTORE a machine and not do something illegal. A problem here, for example, is that whilst bro is licensed for Windows 98, this particular OS is NOT bootable from CD-ROM on a naked machine, which is what I was aiming for. I can understand Microsoft's concerns about piracy very well but it can be very difficult to get a licensed Win98 machine back up to speed when the floppy drive (remember those) refuse to work at all. I managed to get around this earlier by directly connecting the cables from bro's dead floppy drive to another machine within cable reach where the floppy drive actually still worked. A mere workaround that worked at the time and a legal version of Win98 was restored. Bro was happy. I was not. Not all hardware will like or love the likes of Win2K or even WinXP. In my brothers case when the floppy carked it, it was a major effort to get it to a level to restore from his Win98 disk - as I've since learnt no longer supported by Microsoft (NT4 has joined this rank). My main point is if you have IMPORTANT DATA back it up and do not expect to be able to restore your existing OS (eg: Win98SE) on newer hardware without some major pain. I can understand the MS regime to UPGRADE but I know my bro doesn't want a bar of it. It's geting harder to say "No my brother, you need to upgrade to Windows XP despite how farked it is, your hardware has limitations that may be resolved with XP, but - hey bro - they may not! But bro a bit of extra memory won't hurt much - you will need that for XP. But why not 2000? Ahhh, like to play games, you sinner and father of children. Bro now surrepticiously reguire ME to acquire and fit a memory upgrade of at least 128MB to take him to 256Mb. That is all well and good. All my Bro wants is Windows 98, SE admittedly, back on his machine which he paid an arm and a leg for. Perhaps MS should look at the resellers for OS piracy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
