Hello All,
Replacing hardrive on presario 5000, 850meg, 128 ram circa 9/7/00 using compaq's quick restore cd's.
Current hardrive is unavailable for comment.
Research has indicated that an fdisk/format is not required for the new drive using the cd's.
I know that compaq creates a SAV partition "D" for it's restore function as an OEM configuration, does the cd set perform this w/o the need for me to fdisk etc?
Enable CD support from BIOS/Boot disk and go?
Just curious if any thoughts.
Oh, by the way the system has, or had ME.
Thanks
shep

hello
i got a set of recovery disks that reformat and partion the whole dam drive weather you want it to or not and will go onto a new unformated harddrive.but i,m not useing compact ..sony vaio.so apples to oranges .
all you can do is try shep.to bad you did not ghost the old drive.could have instald it any where.

Dave,
I think I mentioned that the old drive was total toast, the only ghost that I could conjure up would be fictional.
It is interesting that there other drive recovery systems that perform the fdisk/format function on a virgin drive via cdrom support, I'm not used to this.
I was sort of interested if anyone had done something similar w/compaq.
And by the way, I will try.
How bad can it be?
It's not mine.
Thanks
shep

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I have a 7110Presario,ran the disks about 2 months ago,didn't have to do anything else,all is back to normal.

I am having a problem how do I use the disk thought it was ctrl+delet 2 times and such wah am I doing wrong?