If there is a red screen that flashes "contact compaq tehcnical support:
or something similar than you have to buy,for $15 , anew restore cd ...it totally fdisks your system and has everything you need to make your system back to new.Your trying it with the recovery cd....for some reason it doesnt work after awhile,or only twice,or if system changes.They never told me why it happens,probably built this way so you can pay em' $15

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