operating system not found

During a boot up(win98)..I received a message O S not found..Bestbuy di
a diagnostic check and told me that compaq does not load a full Syste
restore on the single restore disk(oem)..They tell me it is a 2 dis
set?? My restore disk when installed comes up in spanish..Say
something about contacting compaq? Could this be true?? P.s iv'e eve
tried a new hardrive..Still no help..Any help would be GREATL
APPRECIATE

 

The Recovery CD that shipped with many units required the D:System_sav or
recovery partition to be intact in order to restore the original software
image on the hard drive. A full QuickRestore CD set is required if that
partition is missing or damaged. Unfortunately, when Microsoft dropped
support for all Win 9X versions prior to WinMe, HP/Compaq stopped offering
QR sets for those. you may have to purchase a full install CD of whatever Os
you want to use and install from that.
HH

 

How about FIXMBR as a start?

 

Uh, do you mean FDISK /MBR ???
HH

 

Yep, I was thinking W2K.... from the Recovery Console = FIXMBR (or
FIXBOOT), also available in MS KB for NT4.