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| 1193939 | 2011-04-13 09:22:00 | Correct. I meant a floppy drive - I do have one but it doesn't work |
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| 1193940 | 2011-04-13 09:27:00 | Looking at that driver page I posted,it seems sometimes you have to have the sata drivers (that happens on a few older laptops/PC's). From what I can see - you have one of two choices -- An working external Floppy drive if the laptop doesn't have one or slipstream the drivers into the CD, then they will ( or should) be found automatically. If you end up slipstreaming the CD and you dont have the program , one to use is nlite - instructions From here (www.digitgeek.com) Edit: Does the computer have a recovery partition ? Have a read of This article from HP (h20000.www2.hp.com) - it may give the option to make recovery CD's that will work. |
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| 1193941 | 2011-04-13 10:35:00 | It doesn't as far as I'm aware of. I'm going back to school in the morning and I'm pretty sure that there is a XP SP2 disc, so I will just use that. |
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