Reference the HP Vectra refurb previously mentioned.
I purchased 2 units from my wholesaler who said he would install the W2K SP4
for only $5 (Sounded like a good deal to me...right??), thus saving me the
time installing and finding drivers. It has a COA for W2K. He installed it
using the Product Key on the label. So far...so good.
He installed it from a CD and not by copying I386 folder to hard drive and
installing from the hard drive. When I tried to install Office 2K, it need
to add Windows features which were not originally installed. It asked for
the CD to be inserted which I did not have and my copy is W2K RTM. which it
would not accept since it was updated to SP4. I also realized that I could
not add Windows features which he did not install, e.g. TCP/IP for DUN.
I solved the problem by slipstreaming my copy of W2K on the hard drive and
changing the reg files to look there for the "CD" setup.
Now my question is: should I have expected the wholesaler to copy the I386
folder to the hard drive and install from there so Windows would not ask for
a CD in drive D for changes? I know all the big OEMs, e.g. Dell, Gateway, do
so so one does not have to put in a Windows CD (which some do not even
provide) for changing items in Windows O/S.
I also found out in talking with them to solve this problem, they are just
sales people and have less techincal knowledge than Paki/Indian tech support
that has been farmed out. In the slipstreaming directions, it said to use
the same volume label as the original CD, he did not know how to find it and
it took me 10 minutes to walk him through it to find it via "My Computer".
Daniel Wysocki
Twin*.*Computers
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