rebooting disk info?

[Guest]

Hello ther !
A friend just gave me his computer, but without the original CD.I have tried
to find out the manifacturer or supplier in "system information".........But
i'm not quite sure what or where to look for it.........

Can anyone help please ?

thank you

 

[Malke]

Hello ther !
A friend just gave me his computer, but without the original CD.I have
tried to find out the manifacturer or supplier in "system
information".........But i'm not quite sure what or where to look for
it.........

I'm not quite sure what you're looking for, but either of these free
programs will give you lots of information about the machine:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.aumha.org/free.htm - Aida32 (hosted on Jim Eshelman's site)

Please bear in mind that if your friend gave you a computer with a
Microsoft operating system installed on it, he really should have also
given you the operating system cd and cd's for any other programs
installed on the system such as MS Office, etc. Should you ever need to
reinstall Windows, either he will need to give you the operating system
cd or you will need to buy your own copy of XP. See this link for what
you will need to reinstall Windows (scroll down a bit to get to that
section):

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Backing_Up

Malke

 

[Guest]

I have a similar probloem. I bought a new laptop from Acer, and it didn't
come with the Windows XP install CD -- just recvery CD that reformats and
installs the system as it came from the factory. I have the license sticker
on the bottom of the laptop, but I would really like to have a Windows xp
pro cd. Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Thank you Malke for your quick answer.

Howerver let me rephrase it maybe; I have the opposite problem than the
other post: it is the manifacture's recovery disks that i have missing.

I just wandered if there is somewhere in the PC where it could identify who
I should contact for a replacement one. (the motherboard has a funny logo of
two red letters, a M and a E (... I think) locking into/toward each other)

thanks for the links anyway, the Belark advisor is clean.

 

[Malke]

Thank you Malke for your quick answer.

Howerver let me rephrase it maybe; I have the opposite problem than
the other post: it is the manifacture's recovery disks that i have
missing.

I just wandered if there is somewhere in the PC where it could
identify who I should contact for a replacement one. (the motherboard
has a funny logo of two red letters, a M and a E (... I think) locking
into/toward each other)

thanks for the links anyway, the Belark advisor is clean.

I'm still not quite clear on whether you are looking for a restore disk
from the computer mftr. (like HP, Sony, eMachines, etc.) or a cd with
the motherboard drivers on it. It sounds like the latter, which would
not be a restore disk.

I don't know what you mean by the "Belark (sic) advisor is clean".
Aida32 or the Belarc Advisor would be used to get the make and model of
the motherboard so you could go to the motherboard mftr.'s website to
get drivers.

If those programs don't help you identify the motherboard (and this is
really what you are trying to do), perhaps this link will help:
http://www.motherboards.org/tools/moboidtools.html

Malke

 

[Guest]

thank you

Basically, I want to be able to restore the PC to its original setting as
when it was sold. usually the retailer provides some CD to do that.

(clean: neat, cool, pukka, nice looking and quite practicle)

 

[Malke]

thank you

Basically, I want to be able to restore the PC to its original setting
as when it was sold. usually the retailer provides some CD to do that.

(clean: neat, cool, pukka, nice looking and quite practicle)

OK, now I understand. Actually, not all OEM's provide a restore disk.
Legally, a computer mftr. selling a computer with a preinstalled
Microsoft operating system needs to provide a way for the buyer to
return the computer to the condition in which he bought it. That can be
done by:

1. Providing a physical cd with the actual operating system on it.
Usually cd's with drivers and preinstalled software (if any) would also
be included in this case.

2. Providing a physical cd with an *image* of the operating system,
drivers and software. This is normally called a Restore or Recovery
Disk.

3. Providing an image as in #2 above but instead of cd's the image is
stored on a special, sometimes hidden, partition on the hard drive.

So you will need to ask your friend which of these categories your
computer falls into and act accordingly. My suspicion is that this is a
generic computer that came with a generic OEM disk and that is what
you'd need to get from either your friend or the shop where he
originally bought the pc. If that isn't possible, then you would need
to buy Windows XP and do a clean installation. Then you would need to
find the drivers for whatever hardware is in the machine and install
any desired programs from installation media.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

Malke

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much for all your help&support, and especially patience !

Enjoy the rest of your day

Non-techny Sylvain

 

[Malke]

Thank you very much for all your help&support, and especially patience
!

Enjoy the rest of your day

Non-techny Sylvain

Not a problem, Sylvain. I was glad to help you. Hope it all works out
for you.

Malke