First post, by Shadzilla
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This is a long shot but does anyone have, or know where to locate, the Gateway System Restoration CD and Gateway Operating System Backup CD for a G6-400, built November 1998? I'm trying to restore the system to its original shipping condition as best as possible.
There are a variety of the former on archive.org and the restoration CD images from 7.7 appear to have the right drivers for the system, and that is the version I've tested so far. Unfortunately the only operating system image for Windows 98 I've found is from April 2000 and is Windows 98 SE. So far I've been able to use the restoration CD to prep the drive and start the Windows installation, and this does complete with the SE operating system CD albeit with a few problems.
First issue is the CD drive is not installed properly and MSCDEX errors out. It appears to be missing from config.sys, so despite selecting the generic IDE CD-ROM option during restoration, that's not quite working (I'm trying to source a correct replacement Toshiba DVD drive the system shipped with that might iron this one out).
Then once the OS is installed and booted, it hasn't actually installed drivers for sound or video (which it detected during initial restoration).
But I can't diagnose this yet because when I right click My Computer, select Properties - nothing happens! Never seen that one before.
Finally, it's installed the US locale and didn't ask if I might enjoy UK instead. That one is probably more solvable although initially there didn't seem to be a £ symbol available. That's why having the original UK discs would be a bonus.
Thoughts and tips welcome!