Sorry to hear about the complications with your eMachines computer. Take
heart. I have an eMachines AMD 64 Athlon M6805 purchased in June 2004. It
came with a recovery partition, but also included original XP sp1 disks,
that I also still have. The computer was a great buy at the time and is
still a dependable machine dual booted with XP sp3 and Ubuntu 64 bit. I am
upgrading Ubuntu to 9.04 right now.
Unless you want the eMachines bloatware, try a local, "Mom and Pop" computer
store who might sell you an older XP license for cheap (maybe even a gimme)
that will work with your computer and you can update quickly with a
broadband internet connection. Trash your recovery partition and install XP
clean. I can still find drivers for all the hardware in my machine if I
have to (needed Broadcom wireless drivers for Ubuntu), but XP seems to do
fine finding the updated drivers on its own. They may not have recovery
disks, but the drivers are still available for download for your computer
(http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=W
Series&model=W3107).
Otherwise, you might have a good time geeking out with a solo boot of Linux
(like Ubuntu) on your machine. I'm really enjoying it and never thought I
would after living on DOS/Windows/Apple OS machines since the mid-80s.
Linux has come a long way and the Ubuntu desktop CD is really pretty
painless.
And Brian, don't let the MS vs. Apple talk get you down. I would have to go
to eBay for Jaguar disks for my G4 Titanium PowerBook, too.
Good luck.
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From: "Brian Jones" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:07 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date
I am trying to repair a wormy EMachines W3107 with a damaged recovery
partition.
I contacted tech support for a disc set, and they said:
"We do not keep recovery disc images prior to March 2006."
and they could not provide a set.
This is a very disturbing development ... Comments? Help?;
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