Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-07 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
At one time Emachines came with discs. I am still bale to download drivers from the web. best option? Install new HD and load XP The same flavor that came with it.) Make sure you have downloaded the drivers and put them on a CD or a flash drive, and load it up. makes a nice print server. S

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Jones
Thanks, Mark. EMachines (owned by Gateway last time I checked) makes good machines in cheap boxes with minimal power supply... and they have a website where we can still download the drivers for this machine... I just cannot get the RESTORE disc.Every EMachine I have ever owned (4 now)

[CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-06 Thread b_s-wilk
I am trying to repair a wormy EMachines W3107 with a damaged recovery partition. I contacted tech support for a disc set, and they said: "We do not keep recovery disc images prior to March 2006." and they could not provide a set. This is a very disturbing development ... Comments? Help?; D

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread Mark A. Metz
t you down. I would have to go to eBay for Jaguar disks for my G4 Titanium PowerBook, too. Good luck. -- From: "Brian Jones" Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:07 PM To: Subject: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date I am trying to

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
>It's true what Tom is saying though. Isn't that the point of M$' Laptop Hunters? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread mike
I helped backchannel as to avoid your usual knee jerk reactions. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: > >Always helpful Tom. > >> You get what you pay for. Time to pay some more. > > Look. Somebody bought a cheap computer too many years ago and now finds > that the vendor has walke

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread db
It's true what Tom is saying though. Content and capability cost money to provide... when you spend less on a system you get less and inevitably hit a wall in some aspect sooner than with a more substantive system. Then you have to spend to regain what you lack. I have a high end Dell... sinc

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Always helpful Tom. >> You get what you pay for. Time to pay some more. Look. Somebody bought a cheap computer too many years ago and now finds that the vendor has walked away from it. You want me to shed a tear? What a bunch of crap. You get what you pay for. I don't see you offering any help

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread mike
Always helpful Tom. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: > >Comments? > > You get what you pay for. Time to pay some more. > > > * > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > *

Re: [CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Comments? You get what you pay for. Time to pay some more. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *

[CGUYS] EMachines Recovery Disc cutoff date

2009-05-05 Thread Brian Jones
I am trying to repair a wormy EMachines W3107 with a damaged recovery partition. I contacted tech support for a disc set, and they said: "We do not keep recovery disc images prior to March 2006." and they could not provide a set. This is a very disturbing development ... Comments? Help?; **