I have a Presario 5116EA that will not restore from the recovery disk.

The OS is ME and is totally screwed, lots of blue screens of death, freezes
up etc. I did swap the hard drive and loaded W2K and the PC behaves
normally so no hardware problems. I have swapped back the hard drive.

Unfortunately I cannot make an Emergency Disk due to ME being screwed.
When I try to use the recovery disk from rebooting as per the manual, the PC
just hangs with a cursor flashing in the top left hand corner, also ALT,
CTRL, DEL has no effect at all, I have to turn off the PC and then back on
again after removing the recovery disk.

The SYSTEM_SAV partition is still on the hard drive and as far as I can tell
is not corrupted. The drive is partitioned up as follows: -

C: Primary
D: Data Extended
E: SYSTEM_SAV Extended

Any ideas anyone please?

Bruce.