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Help!! Real short story... I have am older (5 years)hp pavillion; 450
mghz PIII, 96 mb of RAM. Last year bought a new Maxtor HD, 19 GB 7200
RPM; put old HD back in as slave and used it for backup. Ran recovery
disk on new HD and had , well, not many problems over the year running
Windows 98. Bought a new PC and a wireless router and put old pc in
basement. Tried setting up network, got message about having to set up
network manually because of old os. Got stupid and tried to run
recovery from new pc with Windows XP to no avail, but so close.
Reverted back to running recovery from old pc, whick loads but freezes
up in intial setup. I get right to the progress bar for saving setup
settings and it asks to click ok button to restart and just stops. I
know this is an old pc not worth anything but I can't give up (costed
over $3000!). I called hp and the one "american" suggested deleting
the partition and running the recovery again... same results. The
"indian" tech was clueless and ordered some recovery console disks to
be sent to my home. I really don't want to spend any more $ to fix
this thing, so if I could just get it up and running again. It boots
and it get's to safe mode... Anything?
Help!! Real short story... I have am older (5 years)hp pavillion; 450
mghz PIII, 96 mb of RAM. Last year bought a new Maxtor HD, 19 GB 7200
RPM; put old HD back in as slave and used it for backup. Ran recovery
disk on new HD and had , well, not many problems over the year running
Windows 98. Bought a new PC and a wireless router and put old pc in
basement. Tried setting up network, got message about having to set up
network manually because of old os. Got stupid and tried to run
recovery from new pc with Windows XP to no avail, but so close.
Reverted back to running recovery from old pc, whick loads but freezes
up in intial setup. I get right to the progress bar for saving setup
settings and it asks to click ok button to restart and just stops. I
know this is an old pc not worth anything but I can't give up (costed
over $3000!). I called hp and the one "american" suggested deleting
the partition and running the recovery again... same results. The
"indian" tech was clueless and ordered some recovery console disks to
be sent to my home. I really don't want to spend any more $ to fix
this thing, so if I could just get it up and running again. It boots
and it get's to safe mode... Anything?