Laptop reinstall of original software

[Tjboatboy]

Hi,
I do a small business of helping people to repair their computers and keeping the repair costs low.
I have a compaq presario 1694 Laptop and
want to use the original restore disks but I had to replace the original harddrive with toshiba 6 gig and it doesn't recognise the drive
How do I get the computer to see the restore disks?
Thanks,
Tj

[Sidney]

Compaq Presario computers may have hard drives that contain two partitions. The first is a hidden partition that contains the system recovery information.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00034787&product=95233&dlc=en&lang=en

[ecstatica]

that's it i had the same problem with my hp lap top a friend was silly enough to play around with fdisk then delete everything .. the cd that came with it wouldnt work any more .. so to get windows back on i had to use win 98 untill i got the money to get win xp .. works good now .. just a pain in the ass trying to get a driver for everything lol .. but i got it and it works good now :D