Thanks Rob, Dave Jones and Mark Rode for suggestions about this.  In the
finish I decided to take Mark's advice and stick with the original WinME
supplied with the HP 6701.

As far as the work I needed to do, this was certainly the easy way out,
given that the HP recovery disks work so well.

Personally, I think the ME OS is irritating junk, but my customer is a new
user and probably won't notice the difference.

Happy New Year folks!

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Cilia" Subject: [PCBUILD] Installing Win98 onto an HP Pavilion
6701 Reply...


> Hi Ian, what are the specs on this HP Pavilion 6701?  Win98SE does sound
> like a good choice but you probably won't find any win98 drivers for
modems
> and other specific hardware since this was a WinME pc.

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