Hi everyone.

I have a HP Pavilion 6701 I've been trying to restore to factory condition with restore media I'm finding on the Internet Archive.

As the 6701 has the Trigem Cognac 2.X motherboard (https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/trigem-cognac-2.x), I've been trying recovery media from some of the models listed on there with the same motherboard, and some other WinME HP restore media as well.

I have about 5 burnt CD's here with me all not working due to model mismatch! I know it's on me but I thought I'd try this tactic first.
Does anyone have any experience modifying recovery media to ignore version checking? I've done this with IBM media before, and have heard of people doing it for Compaq media to get it to run in PCem.

I spent a bit of time googling around but nothing really documented on this process.