Will give it a go. Thanks for your help.
"HH" wrote in message
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Does your 7390 have a CD or DVD burner? If so there likely was an option
to
create an HP Recovery Tools CD. Did you do that before wiping the drive?
If
not, I know of no way to do a restore, short of ordering the Restore CD
set
from Compaq UK. The reason they are hidden is to prevent accidental
erasure.
You might check the UK website. The US website has an HP Auto Toolkit
softpaq for my S5200CL. There may be one for your S7390UK.
HH

"Alistair Cameron" wrote in message
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There is still a Volume named [presario_rp] which if you use windows
explorer looks empty, if you use something like Nero to explore the
volume
you can see all the files, I know they are there just hidden in some
way.
I
know the f10 option did work the first time I tried it.

Ta.
"HH" wrote in message
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If you erased the recovery partition on the drive, normally labeled
Compaq_RP, the only way is to buy the Restore CDs.
HH

"Alistair Cameron" wrote in message
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Sorry, (new to this) Loaded XP Professional.
"Alistair Cameron" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I have just purchased a Compaq Presario, model S7390UK, over the
first
weekend I decided to try another operating system (formatting the
drive)
and
now I have lost my F10 recovery option. I have been told it will
cost
me
to
buy cd's. Why can't I find any drivers on the net to recover my
system.
I
don't mind using another operating system but just need the
drivers.

Many thanks.

Alistair.