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| Thread ID: 40866 | 2003-12-22 04:21:00 | How legal is this? What do I do? | miknz (3731) | Press F1 |
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| 202045 | 2003-12-22 04:21:00 | I have a 6 year old hp 6320 which came out with Win 98. About 4 months ago I had a hdd failure and my local tech installed a new 40gig drive(which was great after only having a 3gig). A few days later I had a major failure and it went back for a check up, I was told that there was some sort of problem with the orginal software accepting a larger drive(and some other stuff I cant remember) the end result was I had a fresh install of win98se and the original hp disks were no longer relevant to my machine. Now the problem is that I have a corrupt file in windows somewhere and it is telling me to reinstall windows. This is great but I dont have the win98se disks!!! What should I do, the tech repaired it for me the second time for nothing and he says it took him hours to get it right and check everything, I have taken it to another repairer(a friend of a freind) and when I told him the history of the pc he told me that I should have paid for the win98se and have all the disks. And when I think about it he is probably right. |
miknz (3731) | ||
| 202046 | 2003-12-22 04:28:00 | Dude... I reakon people got it the first time roud aye... 5-6 posts of the same thing _isnt_ really neccesary. <bump> your thread up after a day or so if you really want, but otherwise........ You may have been sold an OEM Liscence... Ask the retailer just What liscence they sold you. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 202047 | 2003-12-22 04:56:00 | Go back to the Tech and ask for a copy. You have an OEM licence, and you still have the hardware, minus HDD. So all is legal, and he didn't sell or install unlicenced software. Don't see why you cant use the restore disk, unless it doesn't like the HDD size. You could always take the hard drive back and ask HP for an original 8Gig HDD for your machine :D |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 202048 | 2003-12-22 05:33:00 | Pheonix, as I read it he had OEM Windows 98, he now has Windows 98SE. Different Operating Systems. He should have paid for and received the disks and Cetificate of Authority for an OEM (or full) copy of Windows 98SE As it stands he doesn't have a legit copy of his OS. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 202049 | 2003-12-22 05:57:00 | look in c:\windows\options\cabs..............with luck all yoru 98 setup files will be in there............... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 202050 | 2003-12-22 06:32:00 | Yes GF, picked that up, but wonder how picky MS would be. They made it so the serial that came with Win98, also worked with Win98SE. It could be said too that Win98SE was a "repaired" version of Win98. Strictly speaking, the Tech should remove the Win98SE and tell the user to find an 8Gig drive, or write the PC off, or purchase a Full copy of Win98SE.But I think some common sense wouldn't go astray either. Also do a search for WIN98_30.CAB and see if he has left the installing files in a directory on your Hard Drive. Should be about 75 of those CAB files. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 202051 | 2003-12-22 07:29:00 | well those .cab files should be whre I said but anyway do a search for *.cab and see what you turn up........... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 202052 | 2003-12-22 09:01:00 | Agreed drcspy, just I have known others to drop the whole Win98 folder over from the CD and install from HDD. just thought to cover all bases. :) | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 202053 | 2003-12-22 10:28:00 | RE: Legitimate copy of 98se My hp has a sticker on it which gives the cd key, product key or License key( which ever term you wish to use) and also uses a recovery disk, hp Pavilion 6616 98 se. The way I understand it is ( and I maybe incorrect here) It does not matter where the os is installed from, recovery disk, OEM Disk, or cab files as long as the license that was issued with the machine is used ie product key that came with the machine the install is legitimate, The only problem you may have and it sounds like the tech did have this problem, is getting drivers, as these are on the recovery disk and may no longer be available from the hp site, as mine are (I have a copy of all my drivers and a image of the basic install). I need them is my hp is nowhere near what it was when it came out the box which means the recovery disks wont work any longer. However if the install involved an upgrade of the Operating system (98 to 98se) I would agree with godfather |
beama (111) | ||
| 202054 | 2003-12-23 04:19:00 | "Dude... I reakon people got it the first time roud aye... 5-6 posts of the same thing _isnt_ really neccesary. <bump> your thread up after a day or so if you really want, but otherwise........" sorry bout that, had a little connection problem with pc at work |
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