OS for HP-8755C Pavillion

[CuriousBuilder]

Given a PC with bad HDD, OS is/was ME. Disks long gone, so I was going to slap in an old 20Gig Maxtor and install W2k Pro. I have done some reasearch and I cannot find any info regarding the installation of W2K in this model of HP. I find plenty of info for 98, ME & XP. I did find a warning that HP does not support NT in this model.

Is this model problematic with W2K OS. I do have a copy of 98SE, would that be a better choice? This machine will be used for email & some word processing only.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,
CB

[Sterling_Aug]

From this web page, it appears that your model would be fine with Win2K, although there are no drivers listed anywhere on the HP site for Win2K.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?dlc=en&lc=en&product=59776&lang=en&cc=us&docname=bph05964#N373

[CuriousBuilder]

Oh well, I will give W2K a shot & see what happens. IF it does not work I will load 98SE.

Thanks, CB

[CuriousBuilder]

Thanks, Sterling. FYI, W2K and SP4 installed just fine. Will complete all security updates tonight.

CB