GIBBS
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me old comp at home i'm tryin to get running again, now it's a advent 8764,
but i need a 'ADVENT RECOVERY DISC VERSION 21a' can anyone help me out here? going to advent on the net and they are no help at all, say they need my warranty number or purchase order number or something, it was years ago!!! so i need a new one of these as mines fucked.. anyone know where to download/buy/anyone got one?
cheers
Matt
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l33t corsa
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Any old windows cd should be fine..
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Steve
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just reformat it and start again
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GIBBS
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dunc, it's the reformat cd and puts it back to the stock win98, basically got a dodgy winxp install and it's halfway through but corrupt, so i can't roll back, and i can't install with another xp disc as it's diff, so need to reformat using disc but it's scratched to shit...
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Drew
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format harddrive
install win 98
ya dont need to set it back to how it came from shop, will have alot less shit on this way too
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GIBBS
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it won't be set to how it was at shop, it puts it to bog standard. this just it, when i start up comp it goes straight into the winxp install so don't have chance to do anything else!
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PaulW
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used to wqork on these old shitters in my old job...
if your restore disc is feked ya have no chance m8 sorry, where i used to work we couldnt even get the CD's of Centerprise (Makers of the Old Advent towers), and that was cos they stopped producing them!
Bets thing is like Drew & the others say, just get a copy of Win98 or something on CD, re-partition & reformat your drive & do a fresh install.
You 'might' be lucky coming across an advent at an old office clearence or on eBay, but I doubt it very much...
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l33t corsa
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quote:
Originally posted by GIBBS
dunc, it's the reformat cd and puts it back to the stock win98, basically got a dodgy winxp install and it's halfway through but corrupt, so i can't roll back, and i can't install with another xp disc as it's diff, so need to reformat using disc but it's scratched to shit...
Mate you can boot from a win98 cd... just go into your bios and change the boot sequence to CD 1st. Or if that doesn't work you can d/l some boot floppy disks that will enable you to install windows. Or if it's playing silly beggars then you could jam the hd into another pc and format it, and start again with XP or any OS flavour of your choice.
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