Re-Install AutoCadR13 on my desktop

[Anonymous]

OK anybody into weird problems stuff?

I have a copy of AutoCad 2015 installed but for strange reasons I need to Re-Install AutoCadR13 on my desktop running Win 7. I made the error of killing and wiping my old version of AC 13 when I installed Win 2015. Yeah, I know really brain dead! But what is done is what I have.

I managed to find my copy of the ACr13 CD, but there is NO way I can find the floppy needed for the install! The install S.W. keeps asking for Disk 1.

I am more time into the problem than I want to admit and am still no-where!

Any one who can supply a work around will have my appreciation!

Thanks

Jim Everett

[beyoungjr]

Oh no!  You are trying to install ACAD R13.  I went through a phase of wanting to install R12 on something so I could geek out on the DOS environment that I learned on.  I tried this a few times on Windows XP with a little success.  I didn't bother with Vista because it wasn't even good enough for target practice.  When I tried with Win7 it crashed too frequently so alas I gave up.

If I ever get a yearning to go back to these versions I will dig out an old tower I couldn't part with and I'll reinstall everything from scratch.  Otherwise it's just not worth my time.  There's paint drying somewhere and I'll find it before

To fix your issue some forum user might have an old r13 set of media they could zip to you but I wouldn't count on it.

Cheers,

Blaine

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

May I ask why you need AutoCAD 2013?  Drawings created in AutoCAD 2013-2017 can be opened in those same version without any issues.  Anyhow in order to install AutoCAD 2013, you have to first uninstall AutoCAD 2015.  You can get the AutoCAD 2013 version from the Autodesk Virtual Agent but is your 2013 version (serial #) still activate?

[TravisNave]

It's worse Mark.  I think he is trying to install R13.  At least that is what he is saying.  I literally hope this is not true.

[Mark.Lancaster]

Thanks @TravisNave...   Hopefully that's not the case...   Wasn't even thinking that and then I just found another posting about the same thing...  R13..

[natasha.l]

Hello @Anonymous,

Autodesk supports the current version & three versions back (2014 through 2017).

If the download is not located within the Virtual Agent, customer care will usually provide help if the product is at least a 2010 version. Please note that any unsupported versions can become unavailable at any time.

[Anonymous]

First - thanks to everyone who took the rime to either comment, reply or try to help with this request.

Just to clarify the situation I am truing to re-install AutoCad R13 on my Win 7 desktop PC.

Strange in that I need it to co-reside with a version of 2015 Autocad.

But not so weird when taken in context.

So here goes (if the administrators do not delete this message for being light years off subject)!

I worked in the engineering field for a lifetime. When my company decided to eliminate my position (they decided to not do ANY advanced produce development- which is a really sad story beyond the scope of this msg) we parted ways with not much regret.

At that time I had been working in an AutoCad environment for a long time and my last work version was AC13.

I used AC for a couple of my independent projects and during some consulting I did.

Then I decided to take an abrupt turn in my career path - so I got a CDL and went driving! All over the USA -except Alaska and Hawaii that is!

Did this and had fun for a few year , freedom, few aggravations and with pretty good money. Then a while ago I had a stroke! If you do not know that pretty well ends a CDL drivers career. While I am very very slowly recovering I am quite a way below my capability baseline re pre -stroke. Some physical, and mental residual problems. These are being addressed and am making slow progress. One of my therapist gave me a list of online sites to work in to improve/recover the mental capacity while others work on the physical problems. An offshoot of the online work is my desire to gauge my status and recover from a kind of known point (AC13). I "think" I remember how to operate in this, but do NOT know how to operate in a more advanced version. As I found out from me 2015 version. Have to walk before running or flying!

Now after all that long speil - my plan is to get back into AC 13 then migrate to the more advanced 2015.

And the request. Finally. Again.

I need to reinstall  AutoCad R13 and have it co-reside with the 2015. I have the ACr13 CD but the floppy(?) Disk 1 it keeps asking for has disappeared. 

Does anyone have a way around this roadblock?

Thank anyone/everyone who takes the time to wade thru the above swamp!

One thing in closing, do anything/everything you can to not have a stroke!!!! It may not always be a killer, but it WILL be a negative game changer you do NOT want to experience!

Have a safe day.

Jim Everett

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

First..  Thanks for clarifying its AutoCAD R13 that you need..  Secondly sorry to hear about your medical condition...

But AutoCAD R13 will not run under Windows 7.  It was designed for a different type of operating system which Window 7 is more advance.  Even if you did have the required disk, most likely its going to fail and not even install..  Although you may get it installed (slim chance), it will not run at all.  Its not worth your time and most likely no one is going to have disk (even operable diskettes) laying around since mid-90s...  Just think..  An Autodesk program that was released in 1994 is not going to function on an operating system that was designed 15 years later.  I fully understand there is big change..  Its been 20 years between AutoCAD R13 and 2015.  My suggestion is to stop worrying about getting R13 install.. Just purchase a book on AutoCAD 2015 and learn it step by step.  Common functions like drawing line, circle, arc, and etc are still the same.  Yes graphically AutoCAD has changed since R13..  But even if you get use to R13, its still going to be a big change/jump (its 20 years in the making)..  So why would you want to do that..  However its your decision.. 

[Anonymous]

Mark,

OK, well said. Appreciated! And I will follow your advice, except will go with the on line helps and some lessons I got from "somewhere" before buying the book.

You verified what I was, deep down, suspecting! Very few things are constants - and software is close to the top of the list.

One good deed deserves another so - re read my caution in the message! Strokes are really nastier than they are reported!

Be safe!

Thanks!

Jim Everett