Just use whatever OS OEM disk you have laying around and type in the key from the bottom of the laptop. You will have to install the drivers from Hpaq's site, but no big deal.
Using a "normal" OEM disk will be a lot cleaner than a Hpaq restore anyways. OEM media is OEM media. I have used Dell disk to install on Lenovo's before. This is a bit trickier, cause it *usually* takes the key off the bottom, but not always, then you have to type in a "dell" key, call in to MS activation, and tell them your Lenovo is a Dell. Its cool too, cause in system properties of your Lenovo it has the Dell Logo. I am sure someone is going to argue with me on the legality of this, but its an OEM disk, you have an OEM key on the bottom of your laptop, you just had to use a different key to install. But if you use a non-branded OEM disk to install, then the key on the laptop will work fine and you will not have any activation issues. Jeremy From: Devin Meade [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Compaq nc6400 Laptop OEM ISO download? HP Compaq NC6400 w/ a bad hard disk. It has a recovery partition, but we have no OEM CD's. I want to swap the HDD out. Is there a download from HP on this? I could not find anything but drivers and utilities. Maybe I can clone the recovery partition (which seems to be good) to a new disk. Thanks, Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
