I have a compaq presario 7232. I'm trying to add a 7 gig additional hard drive. Got it to work but had major problems in the process. I'm now attempting to use quick restore CD to reload all my original software to the original 1.6 gig hard disk. I got it to restore once then tried to add the new hard drive. It recogized the new drive, I saved the changes, rebooted to Max Blast diskette to format the new drive. Next time rebooting I got 'Missing Operating System'. After many attempts to find/correct, I ended up reformatting c drive. It seems to think most of the hard drive has bad sectors now. It won't restore the software. I'm stuck. Any suggestions?

Is your new drive the slave or the master? Make sure the jumpers are correct and make sure the CMOS settings are also correct. Use autodetect to make sure configurations are correct. What version of DOS are you using to format c? Try to use DOS 5 or better. Remember to use partitions for large drives. You may also have to do a low level format to "remove" or block any bad sectors. Good luck!

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