I may be mistaken, but I think I was able to use a restore CD on another computer by browsing the CD to setup.exe for Windows and clicking on it...or I ran it from DOS, I forget which.
Jeff Dougherty Intrepid Video TV/VCR www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 3:34 AM Subject: PCWorks: Re: New Comuter. and WOES... SIGH UPDATE Just want to add that I don't think the large companies ever give you a disk to just restore the OS, be it Windows 95, 98, XP or whatever. That might be a deal they have with Microsoft. If you were M$ would you want these disks floating around for all to use? M$ might have a deal with the computer manufacturers where the OS is included in the entire System Restore package and which can only be used on the manufacturer's computers. To expect more from the manufacturer, be it Dell, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, etc is to expect too much. If I were to call HP or Compaq up asking for just the Windows system disk, I'm sure they would flatly refuse the request ...Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
