Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Search results for query: *
- Users: Centerline
- Order by date
-
Possible to convert new HP Pavilion to WinMe?
Show and Tell Time... The only way to accomplish what the client wanted turned out to involve voiding the warranty on a brand new machine. I considered the matter, met with the clients, and came away with the concensus that the cost was not worth the gain, since ultimately the tradeoff was for...- Centerline
- Post #13
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
-
Possible to convert new HP Pavilion to WinMe?
Diogenes10, my point exactly in even raising the issue. I would not be even a bit surprised if HP has "landmined" that drive. They do not want third-party techs re-engineering their new systems. This was confirmed yesterday for me by an active HP engineer. "It will possibly void...- Centerline
- Post #11
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
-
Possible to convert new HP Pavilion to WinMe?
Sounds like a good plan... ok, we'll throw WinMe under the bus, and work with 98SE (client's OEM). Staying with XP would result in this machine sailing through a third story window in the near future. I might be so lucky as to rate the front door. <g> Let's go for plan B, since it apparently is...- Centerline
- Post #5
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
-
Possible to convert new HP Pavilion to WinMe?
A client's "HP Pavilion a250n" system, running XP has been trashed by a boot sector virus. The restore partition has been lost, and the OS has been derailed. The client, a fairly novice user, hates XP and wants to go back to WinMe or even Win98SE, which she is familiar and comfortable...- Centerline
- Thread
- Replies: 14
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
