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Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:28:43 -0400
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Re: HP Recovery Question
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Make sure the boot partition is marked "Active".
You can check it with a boot floppy using fdisk to look at it...
Use a boot floppy for the particular OS installed.
http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml has them... \

                                  Rick Glazier

From: "JJ" <[log in to unmask]>
> Friend's hard drive died. System is a Pavillion 7920. I put a new HD in was
> able to FDISK & format from Recovery CD (Windows ME system). Ran the
> Recovery and it wrote the files to the HD but on boot it says "Missing
> Operating System". So what part of Recovery isn't working and how do you fix
> it?

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