Looking for Compaq laptop Restore Disk

[fuxxociety]

Or mabye someone can point me to a webpage with all the drivers I need?
Driverguide doesn't seem to have anything that works.

 

[bacillus]

you need to try www.hp.com

 

[fuxxociety]

Been there, done that. HP's support for the 18XX series of laptops are laughable, at best. The only things listed for my laptop is some sort of hard drive utility.

 

[Rottie]

I have been looking for restore cd for my compaq few weeks ago I was told by tech support that you need retail windows OS to install it because there is no restore cd.

 

[trikster2]

There is a restore CD

It just didn't ship with the laptop. The restore CD that shipped with the laptop just loaded everthing off a partition on the hard drive.

There was a class action suite against compaq as that strategy reduced the size of the users hard drive. They where forced to give actual restore CDs to user who requested them.

Gosh I wish I had the mail still laying around fuxxociety, you may have been able to just get them to send you one.

That said, I recently upgaded my wife's 18XL3 to XP home and had no need for a driver disk. Upgraded the hard drive to a 60gb and the DVDROM to a DVD/CD burner. One of the advantages of having older hardware is Microsoft has most of the drivers in XP already.

 

[fuxxociety]

Originally posted by: trikster2

That said, I recently upgaded my wife's 18XL3 to XP home and had no need for a driver disk. Upgraded the hard drive to a 60gb and the DVDROM to a DVD/CD burner. One of the advantages of having older hardware is Microsoft has most of the drivers in XP already.

Cool. I may actually end up putting XP Pro on this lappy. I just need about another 128MB or RAM, I'm currently running on the onboard 64MB at the moment. Can this laptop take high-density SODIMMs? or does it require low density like my Dell?