[dba-Tech] Fw: XP system reformatted, can't get online

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4 year old Gateway -- full format, but only has one disk, and that's a 
recovery disk.

Susan H.


>A friend reformatted XP system -- can't get online. I told him to find his 
>driver disk and then he'd be Okay -- he says there is no driver disk.
>
> How can there be no driver disk? How's he going to get online without the 
> right drivers -- does XP reinstall those automatically? The last time I 
> reformatted (and it's been long enough that I just don't remember) I had 
> to reinstall all the drivers from a disk before anything worked right.
>
> He's got a 4 year old Gateway -- mine's a bit older, but shouldn't be that 
> different.
>
> Susan H.