PC Problems

Don't errrr :) Windows is good system :) sometimes.

You can download "free" distributive from any available ftp and install it. If you are sure you need "free" OS. :)

Remark: after formatting you lost all data on disk :( imho

luck

Finally resolved the issue, it's a Gateway :P

Had to find their drivers, after a fresh install of XP Pro SP2... but she's good to go now.

Thank you!!

So you've formatted the hard drive and now all you need to do is install a fresh version of Windows XP... is that what you're saying??

Because all you need now is a CD of windows XP to install??

I don't see what the problem is... You mention you can't download the drivers for this system... But have you installed Windows again or not? If you haven't then of course you wont be able to download the drivers...

John.

Somebody changed "A girl in need" topic title to "pc problems." I wonder why?

The operating system UBUNTU was highly recommended to me on a different thread. It's free and downloadable. I've not tried it yet, but they say it's similar to windows but best of all it's NOT ms-windows!

If you have a computer with a reformatted drive all you can do with it is replace the operating system from a CD I assume it has a CD drive.

If you do not have a CD with a system you must either purchase or borrow one (bearing in mind legal restraints).

After you have the machine up and running there are various operating systems you can download from the Internet which you could use to replace the borrowed system that you used to get (illegally!) it running.

One of my PCs has a partition for backup called D:(on the harddrive.) If the Format C:/ was done, the D might still be there. What was your previous O/S?

Typical woman, makes a good working computer unuseable and then blames the male species!!

To add insult to injury she then comes on a predominatly male forum to ask how to get it working again!!

I think I will just step outside for a while, I can feel the hatred being beamed in my direction... ;-)

John.

OOOOhh. Better duck! A womans scorn..

The previous OS was XP Home... but I got the issue resolved. I installed a fresh XP Pro SP2 and found the drivers on the old restore disk I created when he purchased the laptop... Prior to installing SP2, I couldnt get the OS to install the drivers (from the Home edition)... Thanks for your help

J

The obvious solution is to use the PC for a boat anchor and buy a Mac. You can still run your Windows software when absolutely necessary, but most of the time you'll have a trouble free machine and OS.

I have two year Pentium IV 2.8 800 with 1 Gb RAM two 120 GB Hard disk nVidia 6600 256M video. All working under Windows XP SP2 using AutoCAD Mechanical 2007, Inventor 11, Corel Draw X3, Office 2007 Beta, Borland C++ Builder 6, Automation Studio, Cadence Orcad 10 and KissSoft. This machine works 24 / 7 and NEVER hung up. I love Windows. Its absolutely impossible run these programs in an Mac.

Do you ever use it on the internet? That's where the garbage comes from that causes hangs and problems so I've heard. (Spyware, malware etc)

i cant recover mine either what do i do hun