re: Acer Aspire 2850
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 5:15 am
Posted by Daisy
(3 messages posted)
I also wondered about buying a windows 95 or 98 software -would that take care of
fixing my problem?
On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 5:04 am, Daisy wrote:
>I have a Acer Aspire 2850. I tried to load the win 98 upgrade that came with the
>system. It did not load. The computer got restarted and now it will not go to
windows.
> It brings up an error about the registry. I have researched on the internet-some
>ideas how to fix this. I tried quite a few of them with no luck. I did some help
>on restoring it to a prev time. But, there was none that I could restore to. I
know
>my system came with the restore disks but I can not seem to find them. I have called
>Acer and they do not even show my computer as one they made! I thought that was
kind
>of strange. What is some options? Is there anything else I could do? I have looked
>on the net to see if I can find a place that sells restore disks. Any help would
>be appreciated. One thing I wondered about was can I buy a windows 95 software program
and install it? Will that take care of the registry problem?
>Thanks for the help! Daisy
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re: Acer Aspire 2850
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 10:22 am
Posted by Chris
(381 messages posted)
As far as I know, the 'upgrade' disks only work properly when there is another existing
operating system to upgrade. Say if the system had Windows 95 already on it the
98 upgrade CD would upgrade the Windows 95 to 98. But you need the older Operating
system already on the computer for the upgrade to work.
If there is no previous operating system then you would need the 98 standalone CD.
You can try Ebay and perhaps get 98se for around $80 or so. Windows 95 however goes
for dirt cheap. Around $5 or so.
Hope that helps.
On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 5:15 am, Daisy wrote:
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>I also wondered about buying a windows 95 or 98 software -would that take care of
>fixing my problem?
>
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re: Acer Aspire 2850 vs. W98 Upgrade/ Update versions
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 2:29 pm
Posted by Kiwi
(2105 messages posted)
Actually, the way I understand it, there is little difference among the three primary
versions (Full, OEM, or Upgrade) other than in a couple of hidden files on the CD's.
There was a limited production run of a "partial" W98 "Update" that only worked
on a Win98 first edition install. Those are *hard* to find any more.
MS kept on producing Win98 CD's until there were literally tens of thousands more
in the channels before their interest shifted briefly to WinME, and then to WinXP.
The overstock and surplus sellers have a good supply of Win98se (and perhaps even
of Win98 the Original, but in that case, who cares?). You can buy it readily for
half of the MS MSRP these days, sometimes less. On eBay, the auctions can go any
which way. Often, for a quarter part of MSRP, but just as often, almost as much
as the thing sold for when new.
Supplies of Win95 are much less widely available, but also much less in demand.
Only one Win95 version gets much attention on eBay; that is the all-floppy version,
and once again, as is generally true on eBay, pricing and bidding is all over the
map.
Try to check your assertions better, however, and maybe add some caveats. It's simple
as can be to run a clean install from an upgrade CD, any Windows OS from the first
Win98 onward (unable to say one way or the other about Win95, it's just been too
long!) If you have the upgrade CD, and the hard drive is empty, the install will
start normally, but relatively early in the procedure, you are asked to put a qualifying
OS in a drive for the install to look at. AFAIK, I've only used CD's in that test,
but I suppose that the Win95 floppy disk #1 would have worked with Win98.
.
Kiwi
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On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 10:22 am, Chris wrote:
>As far as I know, the 'upgrade' disks only work properly when there is another
>existing operating system to upgrade. Say if the system had Windows 95
>already on it the 98 upgrade CD would upgrade the Windows 95 to 98. But you
>need the older Operating system already on the computer for the upgrade
>to work.
>If there is no previous operating system then you would need the 98
>standalone CD. You can try Ebay and perhaps get 98se for around $80 or so.
>Windows 95 however goes for dirt cheap. Around $5 or so.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>
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re: Acer Aspire 2850
Friday, December 9, 2005 at 6:55 am
Posted by Kiwi
(2105 messages posted)
It is best to keep all of your questions in the same set, and not start a new message
thread. It's also so very much harder for anyone reading your query to try an answer
when you don't offer any details. We are less likely to know what that "2850" model
number represents than Acer is, but you should have *SOME* idea, surely,
what cpu is in it, and how much RAM, and probably the speed of the cpu. But so far
you left that out of this thread.
You also offer no details about your own trouble-shooting efforts up to this point.
Yes, a regular OS CD might be helpful, if the CD's you have are something else.
.
Kiwi
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On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 5:15 am, Daisy wrote:
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>I also wondered about buying a windows 95 or 98 software -would that
>take care of fixing my problem?
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