Secondhand comp BIOS disk
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I bought secondhand Dell Latitude it came with XP Pro installed. So I get a nasty bug just by opening a infected web page. Needed to reinstall. So call him up and he says bring it down. I figured he would just reinstall his private company disk, which he did, but this time he charged me. So sure as shit mo's later I get another bug. So i say, he's just going to charge me again. So I see these reinstallation disks from Dell. I get one, put it in and it don't boot. When I was at the shop the first time I seen him using some Chinese disk 'first' to set the bios, I presume. Is this a money maker for these guys? Sell the comps cheap but lock/bypass the bios so them and only them can reinstall. I know these Dell disks you buy cheap online can only be used once, but the one I got was unopened and still doesn't boot, and yes I did set it to boot from cd. So what Chinese disk was that and how do I get one?
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I bought secondhand Dell Latitude it came with XP Pro installed. So I get a nasty bug just by opening a infected web page. Needed to reinstall. So call him up and he says bring it down. I figured he would just reinstall his private company disk, which he did, but this time he charged me. So sure as shit mo's later I get another bug. So i say, he's just going to charge me again. So I see these reinstallation disks from Dell. I get one, put it in and it don't boot. When I was at the shop the first time I seen him using some Chinese disk 'first' to set the bios, I presume. Is this a money maker for these guys? Sell the comps cheap but lock/bypass the bios so them and only them can reinstall. I know these Dell disks you buy cheap online can only be used once, but the one I got was unopened and still doesn't boot, and yes I did set it to boot from cd. So what Chinese disk was that and how do I get one?
You don't. You skip that pirated crap and go buy Windows off the shelf and save yourself the trouble.
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You don't. You skip that pirated crap and go buy Windows off the shelf and save yourself the trouble.
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Dave KreskowiakPirated!? what do you work for mic$$ or one of the secondhand guys? There's nothing pirated here. The scum on the internet cost me my first brand-new comp. So I'm broke, so I buy a cheap secondhand Dell, the scum attack again, this time I save my comp but I still need a new os. Don't even mention Linux. Now I know this disk exists, it's a bios something, Chinese? I bought the Dell reinstallation disk legally. It's meant for the comp it came from but those comps are probably dead, so they sell them. Like i said, they only work once.
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Pirated!? what do you work for mic$$ or one of the secondhand guys? There's nothing pirated here. The scum on the internet cost me my first brand-new comp. So I'm broke, so I buy a cheap secondhand Dell, the scum attack again, this time I save my comp but I still need a new os. Don't even mention Linux. Now I know this disk exists, it's a bios something, Chinese? I bought the Dell reinstallation disk legally. It's meant for the comp it came from but those comps are probably dead, so they sell them. Like i said, they only work once.
If you didn't buy the disk from Dell, it wasn't legal. The Chinese disk is FAR more likely pirated garbage than it was legal.
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I bought secondhand Dell Latitude it came with XP Pro installed. So I get a nasty bug just by opening a infected web page. Needed to reinstall. So call him up and he says bring it down. I figured he would just reinstall his private company disk, which he did, but this time he charged me. So sure as shit mo's later I get another bug. So i say, he's just going to charge me again. So I see these reinstallation disks from Dell. I get one, put it in and it don't boot. When I was at the shop the first time I seen him using some Chinese disk 'first' to set the bios, I presume. Is this a money maker for these guys? Sell the comps cheap but lock/bypass the bios so them and only them can reinstall. I know these Dell disks you buy cheap online can only be used once, but the one I got was unopened and still doesn't boot, and yes I did set it to boot from cd. So what Chinese disk was that and how do I get one?
1. What does this have to do with Windows forms? 2. Quit visiting "those kind of" websites. 3. Go to Dell service center or call them home if you can and get it fixed for once and for sure. 4. Always make sure to buy recovery disk or create one as soon as you buy a new computer.
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
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1. What does this have to do with Windows forms? 2. Quit visiting "those kind of" websites. 3. Go to Dell service center or call them home if you can and get it fixed for once and for sure. 4. Always make sure to buy recovery disk or create one as soon as you buy a new computer.
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
Quote: Always make sure to buy recovery disk. If you guy didn't criticise, instead of answering a question, you'ld probably know how to read. It's a Windows os, so what it's a Dell comp. Someone else help me out here. The disk I 'bought' for a the Dell with a 'WINDOWS' os, does not boot.
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Quote: Always make sure to buy recovery disk. If you guy didn't criticise, instead of answering a question, you'ld probably know how to read. It's a Windows os, so what it's a Dell comp. Someone else help me out here. The disk I 'bought' for a the Dell with a 'WINDOWS' os, does not boot.
Granny2007 wrote:
you'ld probably know how to read.
We do know, that's why we are asking what this question has to do with Windows Forms. You bought some junk from somewhere and it does not work; how do you expect people in a programming forum to fix it? As has been suggested before, if you bought it legally from Dell then call them up and ask them to fix it.
The best things in life are not things.
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I bought secondhand Dell Latitude it came with XP Pro installed. So I get a nasty bug just by opening a infected web page. Needed to reinstall. So call him up and he says bring it down. I figured he would just reinstall his private company disk, which he did, but this time he charged me. So sure as shit mo's later I get another bug. So i say, he's just going to charge me again. So I see these reinstallation disks from Dell. I get one, put it in and it don't boot. When I was at the shop the first time I seen him using some Chinese disk 'first' to set the bios, I presume. Is this a money maker for these guys? Sell the comps cheap but lock/bypass the bios so them and only them can reinstall. I know these Dell disks you buy cheap online can only be used once, but the one I got was unopened and still doesn't boot, and yes I did set it to boot from cd. So what Chinese disk was that and how do I get one?
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Wrong forum!
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
Excuse me for thinking you 'would be' programmers would know it all. Now your insulting my comp? That's war. I'll go elsewhere, thx.
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Excuse me for thinking you 'would be' programmers would know it all. Now your insulting my comp? That's war. I'll go elsewhere, thx.
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