No, the recovery process did not work. It reinstalls, but still gives me an
error with lsass.exe. I called HP, and they said I needed the CDs which
cost $30 to continue.
I got curious and decided to install Vista, which I got from a trade show.

As it turns out, if I disconnect my Linksys Wireless G router and plug the
Motorola network (provided by Comcast) modem directly into the computer,
then recycle the power on the modem, the network is found. Great as long as
I don't want to use the wireless or the Vonage phone in my house.

"Curious" wrote in message
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Why were you unable to recover/reinstall the original XP OS? Didn't the
system come with a recovery partition and instructions on how to reinstall
the OS and on how to back up the recovery partition?

"walter deodiaus" wrote in message
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BTW this all worked under XP before virus hit.
Also, the network connector works under Ubanto Linux