Ken wrote:

Is there really data on the CD to restore the HD??? Some computers
depend upon the restoration partition on the HD to retrieve the data
necessary for restoration. In other words, the CD is simply a boot
vehicle that will look to the HD for the restoration data it needs.
Read the CD and see if it has several directories of data that could be
what it needs.

Another question would be is the new HD partitioned and formatted? I
ran the restoration DVD on a HP computer and it would not restore. It
gave little reason for not doing so. What it needed was partitioning
and formatting. One would have thought the restoration process would
have been prepared to do that, but it was not.


My eMachines W3118 came with a restoration DVD for the factory
installed XP home, which includes all the drivers.


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