https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/recovery-issues/m-p/2571373#M1437 Just try to partition you HD from a boot floppy and try your reovery CD again Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:37 GMT Peter Toldi_3 2001-09-01T00:00:37Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/recovery-issues/m-p/2571371#M1435 I am a summer student attempting to bring two HP Brio computers back to their original configuration. I am using the recovery CDs. Unfortunately my first attempt at recovery did not go well. All disk and CDrom activity stopped mid recovery and I left it for a while just to be sure. I retried the procedure but failed again. The partitions on the system had been changed from the original configuration so i tried to correct them using the Recovery CD however i am getting an "Invalid drive specification" error when attempting this process. Any help would be greatly appreciated on this issue. Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:12:48 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/recovery-issues/m-p/2571371#M1435 Dave Cheeseman 2001-08-28T15:12:48Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/recovery-issues/m-p/2571372#M1436 This is the message you would get if the disk has not been formatted.<BR /><BR />The HP recovery disks which I have used require you to get into the partition menu option two times; once to create the partition, once to format. At least the ePC disks are like that.<BR /> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:41:54 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/recovery-issues/m-p/2571372#M1436 Gordon Gidluck 2001-08-28T19:41:54Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/recovery-issues/m-p/2571373#M1437 Just try to partition you HD from a boot floppy and try your reovery CD again Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:37 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/recovery-issues/m-p/2571373#M1437 Peter Toldi_3 2001-09-01T00:00:37Z