I put in the quickrestore cd. and restart the computer. It runs the cd and comes to a screen that says compaq quick restore. Than it goes to a black screen with letters. than goes back to the compaq quick restore and after that it goes to a plain black screen. and it you press enter you can type. how do i get this to work!?!?! its making me so mad!. Created by hitman1180. computers-internet-en - hardware-en - desktops-en

What you're using is a recovery disk, they aren't for installing the OS itself. Sorry if that caused any inconvenience :\ since I'd rather not suggest anything illegal, you'll need to buy an actual copy of the operating system that you want. If you don't want to pay for one, you can also grab some Linux distro and use that, I'm rocking it out with Ubuntu 8.04 right now, and I personally find it better than windows if you learn it.