Good news is that my HP Pavilion 6835 does recognize my old HDVR2 Maxtor Fireball 3 40GB hard drive (had to do a low level format on it) as the Secondary Master drive. My issue is that I cannot get the CDROM to boot as the Primary Slave. I have verified the jumper settings on the CDROM and have them set to Slave (only other two options are CS and Master) and when I powerup I go to the setup and tell the system that the primary slave is a cdrom. Reboot and it still states that it cannot find the operating system. I know that this is the correct setting per the instructions, but the cdrom won't cooperate.

I have been able to set the jumpers on the cdrom to master and boot from the setting in setup as the Primary Master. It will go through the Instantcake setup all the way to the point that it is starting the restore, then it states that "restore failed - error restoring partitions, 52% compression. Cannot continue - processing aborting". That is as far as I can go.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.