From: M Wade on
I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting
to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the
Recovery Console CD.

On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several
options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system
paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP
was not found on the system.

I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but
all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing
underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I
get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character.

I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed.

Marv
From: peter on
What you seem to have is a CD that boots the system and then looks
for the "recovery Partition" that is on the Original HD in order
to install XP. You will need to contact HP with the model # of
you system and purchase a Full Recovery CD for a nominal sum.

peter

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"M Wade" <nowhere(a)columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
news:ulnyD5g8KHA.3516(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting
> to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the
> Recovery Console CD.
>
> On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several options
> to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system paused for
> short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP was not found
> on the system.
>
> I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but
> all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing
> underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I get
> a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed.
>
> Marv

From: Mark Adams on


"M Wade" wrote:

> I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting
> to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the
> Recovery Console CD.
>
> On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several
> options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system
> paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP
> was not found on the system.
>
> I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but
> all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing
> underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I
> get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed.
>
> Marv
> .
>

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
From: VanguardLH on
M Wade wrote:

> I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting
> to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the
> Recovery Console CD.
>
> On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several
> options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system
> paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP
> was not found on the system.
>
> I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but
> all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing
> underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I
> get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed.
>
> Marv

We are supposed to know what *hardware* you have? If you have SATA hard
disks then Windows XP won't recognize them since there are no included
generic drivers in Windows XP. That means the installer will fail because
it cannot find any mass storage on which to install Windows.

That the install CD runs and then says that an old version of Windows XP was
not found means you are using an *upgrade* CD. Well, to upgrade means you
need to have an existing install. Did you insert the full version of your
prior Windows install CD so the new install CD could see the old version on
that old CD? While you can do a fresh install using an upgrade CD, you
still need to verify that you have a full version somewhere. The upgrade CD
gave you an *upgrade* license (which replaces the full license for the prior
version and why you still only have 1 license after an upgrade).

With a full version install CD, you can do either a full (fresh) or upgrade
install of the new version. With an upgrade version of the install CD, you
can only do an upgrade so you have to prove you have a full version (already
installed or available on an install CD for the prior version). With an OEM
version, you can only do a full (fresh) install.
From: M Wade on
On 5/12/2010 5:19 PM, Mark Adams wrote:
>
>
> "M Wade" wrote:
>
>> I have an older HP system that had a hard disk failure. I am attempting
>> to recreate XP on the system. I installed an new HDand I have the
>> Recovery Console CD.
>>
>> On my first attempt the system r4cognized the CD and gave several
>> options to do a repair. I chose the Install XP option and the system
>> paused for short while and then displayed the message that Windows XP
>> was not found on the system.
>>
>> I retried again planning do select the option for a Console recovery but
>> all I get is black screen with the word "mpresora" and a flashing
>> underline mark at at the top left of the screen. If I press ENTER I
>> get a pause and then the same word and flashing underline character.
>>
>> I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have to how I should proceed.
>>
>> Marv
>> .
>>
>
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Thank you for the response. I looked at this site but it assumes that I
have an existing version of XP on the system. Obviously I cannot run XP
adviser since I cannot get past the point where the word "mpresors_"
appears.