The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Notebook Recovery Error

    Discussion in 'HP' started by neofx19, Sep 16, 2007.

  1. neofx19

    neofx19 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    102
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hi, I have an old HP notebook computer and I tried to do a fresh install by using the recovery DVD's but it's not working and its looping me to this message every time I try "The Recovery process was canceled. Remove the disc and click OK to restart and continue the process. Otherwise, reinstall the disc and click Cancel to start over." I've clicked on both ok and cancel in different instances with no success. my question is....

    Is there a way to install XP without the recovery CD on a notebook? Like a fresh install on any desktop computer going through the bootdisk, then install xp through the cd?

    Is it possible to boot linux ubuntu and do a fresh install?

    thanks
     
    neofx19, Sep 16, 2007
    #1
  2. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    441
    Messages:
    3,667
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    Yes, you can use a plain HP or Compaq WinXP install CD... if you can find one. The license key that pairs with the CD is embedded in the BIOS. HP used to include plain CDs, they stopped a couple of years ago. Afterwards you'd install drivers and what not as needed.

    Ubuntu should install easily. You might as well go straight to 64-bit Ubuntu (or Fedora, etc) if you have an AMD CPU or an Intel Core2Duo.

    Which model HP notebook do you have?
     
    brianstretch, Sep 16, 2007
    #2
  3. gridtalker

    gridtalker Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    18
    Messages:
    2,976
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0


    If you have a win. xp cd you should be ableto do a clean install. Also are you using the recovery cd that came with that laptop or did it come with a diffrent laptop?
     
    gridtalker, Sep 17, 2007
    #3