I hope someone is able to help here: I was donated a Compaq Presario 1700 laptop which is in pretty good shape with the exception the os is pretty well shot (XP Pro). The laptop has 10GB HDD, 384MB Ram, 700Mhz Proc, and floppy drive. They have no idea where the CDROM got to so it cannot be found. I need to find a cdrom for this model but have been unable to except for ebay of which I am not a big fan.

I would like to be able to load an OS on this system as I could sure use this. Does anyone know of a location where I could purchase one or is there another way to get an os on here. I have tried to put the HDD in a desktop, copy the os cd to the hdd and install from there. It loads part way then I get an error and will not continue to load. Any help would be appreciated.