Compaq Computer Recovery

By Gail Nobles
6/12/2007

My computer has been down for a while. I tried to upgrade the Internet Explorer, but my computer would not upgrade to it. I had to download Windows Service Pack 2. I thought Windows Service Pack 1 was enough. For a long time, I would not update it because my computer kept saying access denied when I tried it. When I tried to download Service Pack 2 one more time, some of it downloaded and some of it did not. So, Service Pack 2 did not work correctly, and my computer kept cutting off and restarting. I could not get to my desktop. I thought I was in big trouble.

Some very nice guys named Marty and Jeff was kind enough to help me at work. They showed me the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. I tried the CD and it made it possible for me to get to a desktop screen that did not look like my original screen. I was able to click on My Computer and save my files. I could also burn my files to a CD writer with it, and I could go online.

The 2nd thing that I did was I restarted my computer and took my brother‘s advice. I hit the F10 key on my keyboard to go into the Compaq System Recovery, which was on my mind to do but was afraid to try. I selected the recovery option and clicked on next. It made a hard disk preparation, it copied my files, and it finalized the recovery. I had to restart my computer. When I was finished going through all of the steps, a thank you screen was there. The computer would not let me leave that screen when the set up was done. My computer sounded as if it was downloading and busy. My brother gave me some advice over the phone to leave the computer plugged up overnight and leaving it on without shutting it down. In the morning, my desktop was full of icons! I was happy to see it!

Then I had another problem. My drive C disk looked kind of full. It looked incorrect. So, I found a wonderful freeware program called HDCleaner. I was able to see files and folders that was taking up a lot of space on my drive. When I deleted them, I gained a lot of free space. I found out that if you import a lot of videos to a DVD burning program, it will make another copy of the videos in another folder. Videos, pictures, music, and pages from the internet can really add up. I am happy that my computer is back. Compaq is a great computer!