From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri May 07 1999 - 14:15:27 EDT
the recovery image is a ZIP file..
copy it and unzip it..!
John Kim wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Bill Morrow wrote:
>
> > Vincent..
> > There are two CD's supplied with the 770 series now..
> > the first is the preload recovery CD.. which, as you say,
> > recovers the HDD to the factory preload..
>
> Does this bother anyone else? I know it's to cut down on
> software piracy, but it basically means I pay for a one-user
> license for Windows, but I'm only allowed to use it on the
> machine it came with unless I jump through hoops and hack the
> files to load it onto another machine. It's part of the
> reason I'm still using W95 OSR2 (which I have a "pure" CD
> for). (The other reason is that my 560 doesn't have a CD-ROM
> drive so I can't use its recovery CD - copying its contents to
> the HD doesn't work since the first thing the recovery process
> does is repartition and reformat the HD. :-)
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim_at_stormhaven.org
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