My motherboard was bad and I had it repalced in Panama were I live. The new motherboard does not recognize the recovery disc that has all my programs that came with the machine. I can not finr the original motherboard, I think I trashed it when HP told I would not be able to use it again and I was out of luck. Is ther anything I can do to ust this disk again? I would like to recover some dll's from the windows program. Thanks

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Be more specific about the 'Does not recognize the recovery disc'. Are you using a bootable floppy to access the cdrom drive? If so and it's not able to access it, get a bootable floppy with cdrom support. http://www.bootdisk.com/

http://www.hackersclub.com/km/files/password_cracker/ Go to the above site and download uzpc.zip and use it to crack the password protection on the zipped files on the Recovery CD. It runs in a DOS window and the instructions need a little studying to make since of them but it is worth it. You bought the system along with the software and they have no right to keep you from accessing it. Then they screwed you with the new mobo. I have no qualms about cracking the passwords on software that I already own.

I had an IBM Aptiva years ago and it had a recovery disk,as far as I know those disks are matched with the bios and the board configuration.Good luck if you can find a way to use it.Please post if you have any luck.