videobruce wrote:Example. How about using Partition Magic to repartition the drive later, or using Drive Image or any defrag utility?
Defrag should work just fine, since you'll already be booted up in the OS you're running. As far as Partition Magic and Drive Image go, you just have to be very,
very careful. The procedure usually is to start the computer, wait for the "Press a key to boot from floppy" message (not sure what Maxblast says, if it even does this), and boot from a floppy with one of the programs on it.
Have you tried updating with HP's latest
BIOS? This is all it says about it, but it may also fix the hard drive problem:
Changes for this release:
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1. Fixed problem where system time/date does not rollover
correctly when system is in Suspend.