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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
bot (15449)
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.
wainuitech (129)
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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