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Recent content by Charlie1951
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Compaq Presario Recovery CD not running...
OOPS...one more "minor" detail: Compaq's Restore CDs will usually NOT work on new hard disks unless they are Compaq replacements...for me and my old Presario 5070, this was a blessing...I'm now running XP Pro on it with a new 10 gig drive, 284 RAM and it virtually flies compared to 98 SE on the...- Charlie1951
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Compaq Presario Recovery CD not running...
How did you format the drive?...bootable emergency disk or? Did you use dos format? In the future, leave partition info alone and just boot a system disk and format both C and D drives. The rescue disks for older Presarios don' like having to set partitions, etc. Do you get any messages at...- Charlie1951
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
