Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sun Jun 14 23:04:04 CDT 2009
Thr "Recovery Disk" for a lot of those systems is actually an XP installation disk which has been "slipstreamed" so that it already contains all of the necessary drivers for the various peripherals (network card, graphics card etc) as well as various bits of software. Did he reformat with the recovery disk or with a vanilla XP installation disk? -- Stuart On 14 Jun 2009 at 21:51, Susan Harkins wrote: > Additional information > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com