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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?

Isn't the first CD bootable?!?

Cactus

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?

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.

Right on caboosejjs ....

Cactus