I'm asked to fix a friend's Compaq Presario.  The machine had a virus,
and the hardware works fine.
The last time I fixed it, I used the recovery partition.  I asked him
to order the recovery CDs from Compaq, and they did.

I am trying to run a persistent skinny puppy Linux OS on a USB stick.
Live CD works just fine
There is no boot from USB in my bios options, just floppy, hard driv
and CD.