HP pavillion recovery disks WONT

[Thriell]

Bought a used HP Pavillion. It has Win98 installed along with a bunch
of crap I don't want/need. Decided to use the recovery CD to format
and restore it to factory setup then do a Win XP upgrade on it.

Problem is, the Recovery CD gets to where it SHOULD start formatting
and just SITS there. I have to kill the power to get the machine back!

I don't wanna just format and run ssetup on a blank drive because I
can just FEEL that I'll end up missing a driver that Windows Setup
doesn't have either and, since I'm stuck on dial-up because nothing
faster is AVAILABLE where I live, if it's the modem driver that's
missing, I'm pretty much DONE being online.

 

[Guest]

Most older pavillion pcs have 3 disks,you need 2 of them to format & recover,
sure youve started it properly...

 

[Rock]

Bought a used HP Pavillion. It has Win98 installed along with a bunch
of crap I don't want/need. Decided to use the recovery CD to format
and restore it to factory setup then do a Win XP upgrade on it.

Problem is, the Recovery CD gets to where it SHOULD start formatting
and just SITS there. I have to kill the power to get the machine back!

I don't wanna just format and run ssetup on a blank drive because I
can just FEEL that I'll end up missing a driver that Windows Setup
doesn't have either and, since I'm stuck on dial-up because nothing
faster is AVAILABLE where I live, if it's the modem driver that's
missing, I'm pretty much DONE being online.

If you're talking about installling win98, you should be posting to a
newsgroup for that OS.

microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...77c-b913-44a1-bb74-b340c5c9daf5&lang=en&cr=us

 

[DL]

Then whilst its still running visit HP site and download/burn updates to cd
or other media

 

[leftred]

Bought a used HP Pavillion. It has Win98 installed along with a bunch
of crap I don't want/need. Decided to use the recovery CD to format
and restore it to factory setup then do a Win XP upgrade on it.

Problem is, the Recovery CD gets to where it SHOULD start formatting
and just SITS there. I have to kill the power to get the machine back!

I don't wanna just format and run ssetup on a blank drive because I
can just FEEL that I'll end up missing a driver that Windows Setup
doesn't have either and, since I'm stuck on dial-up because nothing
faster is AVAILABLE where I live, if it's the modem driver that's
missing, I'm pretty much DONE being online.

If you are trying to install XP on a HP that was running Win98, you can bet
that the CPU and RAM are inadequate for the task. Forget about it, fill it
with concrete and use it for a boat anchor or take the side off, fill it
with charcoal and use it for a brazier. Great for grilling things over a
fire.
Most HP rubbish labeled "ready for XP" (or even Vista) is not suited for the
task and will run like a dead dog.

 

[RedForeman]

If you are trying to install XP on a HP that was running Win98, you can bet
that the CPU and RAM are inadequate for the task. Forget about it, fill it
with concrete and use it for a boat anchor or take the side off, fill it
with charcoal and use it for a brazier. Great for grilling things over a
fire.
Most HP rubbish labeled "ready for XP" (or even Vista) is not suited for the
task and will run like a dead dog.

That's real helpful...

I would suggest installing Win2k on it, XP might run, but not well....

RedForeman

 

[Poprivet]

Bought a used HP Pavillion. It has Win98 installed along with a bunch
of crap I don't want/need. Decided to use the recovery CD to format
and restore it to factory setup then do a Win XP upgrade on it.

No need to do that. Try just booting from the XP CD and delete partitions
at the beginning of it, recreate partition, and let it go. It'll install XP
then.
If it should complain it can't find compatible product, replace the XP CD
with the 98 CD so it can look on that CD. You might have to point it to the
98 folder; I forget how those disks are structured. Once it recognizes you
have 98, then put the XP CD back in and finidh the install.

HTH
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