Compaq Presario 7594

[caboosejjs]

I am doing a quick restore on a this compaq 7594. It is a 2 CD restore. The problem is that it requires a restore diskette that I do not have. I have the 2 CD's. I Iooked somewhat online for the software with no prevail. If I email Compaq i know that they will probably send me one but I though maybe I could be more time efficient here if someone had any suggestions?

[Cactus]

Isn't the first CD bootable?!?

Cactus

[Geekgirl]

Hey caboosejjs

What kind of an error are you getting? Give us more info plz.
Do you have the 2 cd restore discs? How you know you don't have right disc?

[caboosejjs]

I booted to the first CD and went through some setup prompts such as location. Then the recovery CD asked me to insert the recovery diskette. Not the 2nd CD which I have. At that point is where I ran into the problem because I dont have that recovery floppy. So I did a little more research on Compaq recoverys online. I found that there is ,what seems to be, a universal foppy recovery file called SP9477.EXE for Windows 98Compaq machines . So I find a link to this file and naturally end up getting a connection error over and over.
Funny thing happened when I went to check out more information for you both. I ended up hitting a key after prompted to " please insert recovery distette" (sp9477.exe) and hit any key" (like i tried previosly). But this time the recovery process started because there wasnt a floppy in drive. Originally I was trying to do this with some uknown floppies in the drive that I though might have worked. This is a machine that was giving to me for play and the software is little unorganized. So everything is working now. Thank you Cactus and Geekgirl.

[Cactus]

Right on caboosejjs ....

Cactus