[SATLUG] again with microsloth

country glenn.toothman at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 09:23:56 CDT 2007


Ya, think they bought the thing used, and it was on somekind of network, and
it can't find the net, and fails at the login screen...

I d/l the utilites just a bit ago, and will hit it tonite when I get home,
and just do everything fresh to the system...



On 10/5/07, Jonathan Hull <masterr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh it's an upgrade? Yeah if there is not important data just wipe the
> disk and do a fresh install. So many problems can crop up from an
> upgrade and now you know you have a fresh install with no chance of
> getting leftover virii from the previous owner.
>
>
>
> On 10/5/07, scs at worldlinkisp.com <scs at worldlinkisp.com> wrote:
> > >------- Original Message -------
> > Glen wrote:
> > Is there an easy fix for this, and second can I just
> > go to bootdisk.com and  get a boot disk, and just
> > reformat the whole disk, and start the install of
> > XP from scratch?   There is no data on this disk, and
> > think the problems came from the upgrade from 2K OS.
> > Have the full OEM disk, and thinkin that this would
> > probably  be the easiest way of getting this thing
> > out of here.
> > ------------------------------------
> > Reinstall.. Oh so simple, and likely will take less
> > than a fifth of the time you've spent trying to fix it.
> > Lou
> >
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