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Revision as of 14:10, 2 October 2005
Information about recovering the preloaded OS without any Recovery CD.
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Coverage of this approach
You can't download preinstalled commercial applications from the IBM website (only updates are provided). Commercial software known to be preinstalled is CD/DVD burning and DVD playback software and Norton AntiVirus. On the other hand, this approach doesn't restore the original setup, but gives you a system with the lates drivers and tools from IBM, that might work even better than the originally installed one.
preinstalled Windows versions and their keys
Windows 98
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Windows 98 specific stuff
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Windows ME
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TODO
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Windows ME specific stuff
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Windows 2000
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TODO
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Windows 2000 specific stuff
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