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From: M Wade on 12 May 2010 16:04 I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the Recovery Console CD. On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP was not found on the system. I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character. I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed. Marv
From: peter on 12 May 2010 17:13 What you seem to have is a CD that boots the system and then looks for the "recovery Partition" that is on the Original HD in order to install XP. You will need to contact HP with the model # of you system and purchase a Full Recovery CD for a nominal sum. peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "M Wade" <nowhere(a)columbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:ulnyD5g8KHA.3516(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting > to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the > Recovery Console CD. > > On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several options > to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system paused for > short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP was not found > on the system. > > I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but > all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing > underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I get > a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character. > > I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed. > > Marv
From: Mark Adams on 12 May 2010 17:19 "M Wade" wrote: > I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting > to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the > Recovery Console CD. > > On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several > options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system > paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP > was not found on the system. > > I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but > all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing > underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I > get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character. > > I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed. > > Marv > . > http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
From: VanguardLH on 12 May 2010 17:20 M Wade wrote: > I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting > to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the > Recovery Console CD. > > On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several > options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system > paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP > was not found on the system. > > I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but > all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing > underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I > get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character. > > I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed. > > Marv We are supposed to know what *hardware* you have? If you have SATA hard disks then Windows XP won't recognize them since there are no included generic drivers in Windows XP. That means the installer will fail because it cannot find any mass storage on which to install Windows. That the install CD runs and then says that an old version of Windows XP was not found means you are using an *upgrade* CD. Well, to upgrade means you need to have an existing install. Did you insert the full version of your prior Windows install CD so the new install CD could see the old version on that old CD? While you can do a fresh install using an upgrade CD, you still need to verify that you have a full version somewhere. The upgrade CD gave you an *upgrade* license (which replaces the full license for the prior version and why you still only have 1 license after an upgrade). With a full version install CD, you can do either a full (fresh) or upgrade install of the new version. With an upgrade version of the install CD, you can only do an upgrade so you have to prove you have a full version (already installed or available on an install CD for the prior version). With an OEM version, you can only do a full (fresh) install.
From: M Wade on 12 May 2010 19:36 On 5/12/2010 5:19 PM, Mark Adams wrote: > > > "M Wade" wrote: > >> I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting >> to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the >> Recovery Console CD. >> >> On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several >> options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system >> paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP >> was not found on the system. >> >> I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but >> all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing >> underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I >> get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character. >> >> I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed. >> >> Marv >> . >> > > http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html Thank you for the response. I looked at this site but it assumes that I have an existing version of XP on the system. Obviously I cannot run XP adviser since I cannot get past the point where the word "mpresors_" appears.
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