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Re: Looking for a good OS for an older desktop: Advice needed

If I've read this correctly you've already done a fresh install from the recovery disc? If so it may be too late to try and back up anything as it all may have been wiped. I'm not entirely sure exactly how these manufacturers recovery discs are supposed to work, although evidently yours hasn't worked.

As Brian says, perhaps the quickest simplest thing would be to use an ethernet cable and see if you can connect to internet that way. If that fails make a Linux USB (if you haven't already), plug that in an...
If I've read this correctly you've already done a fresh install from the recovery disc? If so it may be too late to try and back up anything as it all may have been wiped. I'm not entirely sure exactly how these manufacturers recovery discs are supposed to work, although evidently yours hasn't worked.

As Brian says, perhaps the quickest simplest thing would be to use an ethernet cable and see if you can connect to internet that way. If that fails make a Linux USB (if you haven't already), plug that in an...