When is friend got his machine and doco, chances are there was a "recovery" partition already on the machine. You are advised to burn recovery disks yourself in the literature typically. On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 11:34:21 -0500, David Phillips <electrum at gmail.com> wrote: > > I was hoping there was some way he could use it. > > How about doing things the right way? Call the vendor (Compaq) and > ask them for a recovery disk. > > -- > David Phillips <david at acz.org> > http://david.acz.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list