GX620 HDD failed, where to find machine image as download?
My neighbor's hard drive failed (or it's the controller, but the HDD just clicks and the BIOS won't see it and I get a PXE-E61: Media test failure) and they did not make backups of the machine images from the image partition (at least, Google leads me to believe that's where it's at).
Where/how can I download the image for them so I don't have to go through the grind of reinstalling EVERYTHING for them? It's Christmas, someone take pity on the nice guy!
Thanks in advance,
Eric
Thanks, dude, I'm with you.
For my own machines, they get wiped and reinstalled. I've upgraded many Vista machines to XP after fighting with Vista all the way through SP1. Someone remind me why I waited so long again? I'd upgrade my wife's too if I had a license of XP Tablet laying around.
http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx
However, this is my neighbors' machine, they're far from power users, and predominately surf the web and run MS Office apps, so the default image should be fine and will save me chasing down any drivers (google seems to indicate some of the drivers are elusive - we'll see). Not sure I want to invest 3-5 hours customizing it for them, as much as I love them.
They didn't get any discs, just the machine, the backpack, etc.
I'll have to borrow a buddy's MSDN to get the OEM version of Vista and use the SerNo on the bottom of the machine since all my other machines came with images and not the real dealio. I have tons of original XP, NT, 95, etc. disks in the library, but no Vista.
No response from support yet. Never heard of MSI before my neighbors asked me to look at it last night, we'll see where we end up. Looks like a decent machine, found it interesting the BIOS' minimum overclocking was 15%. LOL
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