Windows Me on a HP Advanta

[AlwaysUp]

I got a buddy wanting to do a recovery of his system off the 3 recovery disks that came with his Dad's PC. I am unsure of the method to launch this as I haven't had a retail pc in years. Does anyone know how to initiate the recovery from these three CD's? He says he inserts them but there is not autolaunch executable, evidently, as it doesn't autostart.

[Force Flow]

He would need to boot off of the first CD.

A recovery will wipe the drive, just so you know.

[AlwaysUp]

Oh, yeah, I have had one HP Pavilion as our first home PC. We went through about 4 or 5 recovery instances and then upgraded to Win98 from the original Win95 OS. My wife got quite good at it. We finally thrashed the 3Gb harddrive and I began learning from this site. I told my bud that this would completely return the PC to original setup and to backup his Dad's addressbook and Favorites/bookmarks. He seems to be leaning in this direction, though. His original complaint about it was that he would experience VERY slow browsing and even lockups when browsing. I told him that this problem could be allot of different things. I suggested that he go to Windows update and he did not know how to do this. Uh, oh. His AV was McAffee. Expired. Uh, oh....well you get the trend. I originally thought the SASSER worm but I find that that was Win2K and XP boxes affected by that worm. I also began to direct him to find what version of IExplorer his dad had on there. But by this time I could hear his eyes glazing over even over the phone lines. Ha!

[glc]

The package that the recovery CD's came in has usage instructions, he just needs to read them. As Force said, boot from CD #1 and go from there.