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by stalin_henry

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Hey all,
I gotta a Compaq laptop,and need to format it. I don't have the driver CD for it or the restore CD. When i asked the dealer about the CDs he told me its there in another partition. I gotta a Drive C and another drive named as HP. When i click on it a small HP box appears, thats it. Now how do I format it and how do I boot the other partition or get the drivers from that partition? Any related idea do lemme know please?

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by toivo talikka

Go to HP's website and select Support. Find the pages for your laptop model where the drivers and the user manual are. The user manual has all the details of how to reload the operating system from the hidden partition.

If you have some data you want to keep, you need to save it first to a CD or transfer it to another computer over the network.

by kpak44wh

some computers have a program on them that lets you make
cds for your system. If your computer didn't come with a cd,
you should have that program. http://
h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?
lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00239036&product=90390&dlc=e
n%E2%8C%A9=en#N418

try that, it should work.

by seanferd

Anyway, you don't format a laptop, you format a partition on a hard drive, floppy. or thumb drive. Formatting erases any data present and sets up the medium to accept data.

format C: will format the C:\ drive.
*Don't do this if you don't know what you are doing.* Since you don't know how to format, I'm guessing you don't.

If you want to repair Windows, or install an OS, or keep you user data, tell us what you need to do specifically. Someone will help.

by rajbinds50

actually when i am doing format of c;drive with the help of cd but it is not happening.

by seanferd

You don't want to do that.

If you need to recover or reinstall, that HP recovery partition is what you need. Use the HP Recover item in the Start menu. If yo can't:

Remove the HP Media Drive if your computer includes one. Disconnect all peripheral
devices from the computer except the monitor, the keyboard, and the mouse.
Press the On button to turn on the computer.
4 During the startup, do the following to enter the Recovery Manager program:
When the first screen opens (the logo screen), press the F11 key on the keyboard.
(You have only a few seconds to press the F11 key before the normal startup process
continues.)
5 The computer starts the Recovery Manager program; wait for the onscreen instructions
to display, and then follow those instructions.
6 Complete the computer startup, finish the registration process, and wait until you see
the desktop. Then, turn off the computer, reconnect all peripheral devices, and turn on
the computer.
NOTE: System Recovery deletes any data or programs that you created or installed
after purchase. Be sure to back up any data that you want to keep onto a
removable disc.

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