Hung Installation

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I am working on a Compaq Presario Desktop, built in 2004, with Windows

 

XP Home. The user ran system restore to six months ago, which screwed

 

it all up, and now we had to perform a destructive system recovery.

 

But it won't finish, it seems to finish the main stuff, but when you

 

re-boot, it says, "Starting Windows XP, please wait" for hours til no

 

end. Compaq's website suggests it may be HD errors. There is that

 

extra little D partition with the recovery stuff on it. He never made

 

a CD. I need help with this...

[cchalogamer]

well F10 to acess the recovery at the bios splash screen is how it's SUPPOSED to be resotored, all it does is boots off the D partition, it took my HP almost 20mins to start XP after doing the recovery bc it configures alot of the drivers etc, while it's doing that.

 

If you cant get that partiton to work contact HP/compaq and tell them the partition has errors, tehy should do liek they did for a friend of mine a rush ship you the recovery CD verision overnight. another option is to jsut format C with a windows CD and reinstall with his Key. then go to the HP site drivers secetion, search for hsi model, and DL all the mobo/video/Lan drivers

[OVERSTIMULATIONS]

well F10 to acess the recovery at the bios splash screen is how it's SUPPOSED to be resotored, all it does is boots off the D partition, it took my HP almost 20mins to start XP after doing the recovery bc it configures alot of the drivers etc, while it's doing that.

 

If you cant get that partiton to work contact HP/compaq and tell them the partition has errors, tehy should do liek they did for a friend of mine a rush ship you the recovery CD verision overnight.  another option is to jsut format C with a windows CD and reinstall with his Key. then go to the HP site drivers secetion, search for hsi model, and DL all the mobo/video/Lan drivers

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Well, those are good ideas. He did contact Compaq, and they wouldn't give him technical support cuz his 1 year warranty expired, and they wanted $ 40. I still think they should send him a CD, considering he could've easily made one himself (if he was wise enough), and he purchased the software legally.

[94Camaro]

I had a problem awhile back sort of like this. F10 didn't make it boot properly so I found a workaround. http://forums.overclockersclub.com/Major_O...lem-t41649.html

 

Don't know if you'd be able to do something similar, since I'm not sure if Compaq uses the same method for the recovery, but you might check it out.

I needed to get the factory install back becuase of some of the software that was preinstalled. If you don't need the preinstalled software, the last option cchalo listed would be easiest probably.