Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 08:32:17 CDT 2009
He says he used a recovery disk -- the one that came with the computer. I have gateways too, and they came with a recovery disk, and it's been a really long time, but I swear... I think I had a driver disk too. Or, is it possible that during the process, you're asked to reinstall drivers? Is that possible? Susan H. > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com