[HayZee518]

if it is any consolation to you I had to do a full system recovery on my wife's presario just a week before mine crashed. the recovery disks were on that partition on the hard drive so about a year ago I made up a set of ten disks for system recovery. after reboot you'd press F12 to go into a system recovery segment and use disk one, two etc until it was finished. I had the disks for her hp printer and a us robotics modem so used those to get it going again. my regular dialup terminal was gone so I went into my network connections and set up a new connection using the wizard. after that I d/l firefox and set up my regular isp,s homepage. but she uses ie6 so that part was easy. compaq's recovery already had win xp sp2 on it.