Re: Probably no answer

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Enkidu <enkidu.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

What is the problem you are having, exactly? Is it just that you don't
have a CD? Why do you need the CD?

Cliff

This laptop came without any kind of CD. One thing seems so obvious to
me it shouldn't even be said out loud, but if you have a damaged drive
of a given nature restore features can be such a ludicrous non-solution
as to be both inane and insane. You simply can NOT depend on everything
going perfectly. Period.

Fishing around the internet trying to find some way to build a recovery
CD that will match one of the myriads of combinations your laptop just
might happen to fit with is a proposition so bad it can be seen only as
a sales gimmick for additional system installation CDs.

My system seems to have some setup issues - and no CD of any kind to do
anything about it with. I can't imagine anything more calculated to
cause trouble than to approve the sale of machines without CDs or the
manufacturers' masterful stroke of saving pennies per computer by NOT
including the CDs. And even if I go shell out cash for an XP Pro CD the
chances it will be compatible with my current system are practically
zero.

Corporate America has reached a new kind of low, altho I'm sure there
more kinds of lows out there just waiting to make life miserable for the
uninitiated.

Jim L via the operating system it took IBM 15 years to kill - It still
squirms while dead. --
"Feel inadequate? Destroy stuff and kill people." Confucious, Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
.

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