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    Compaq Presario CQ62 recovery discs....

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Linuxperiment, Sep 24, 2010.

  1. Linuxperiment

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    Hello everyone. I recently ordered some recovery discs from HP specifically for my laptop, but I do not have the recovery partition cause I wiped it when I installed Linux on it. I want to go back to W7, and the recovery discs I recieved are telling me I can't use the "DVDs" to install Windows 7. Any solutions?
     
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    Unfortunately I don't have a key anymore cause it's been used and they won't let me activate it anymore. I tried using the OEM key but that failed.
     
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    If you use the key from the bottom of your notebook it usually requires phone activation.
     
    R4000, Sep 25, 2010
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