The owner declined. Later they end up paying for a full copy of the OS they intend to run. There is no happy place here.
After you install the Windows OS, you gather up drivers for motherboard, video, audio and such (Microsoft doesn't supply or help here) and do the usual full manual install and setup of the machine.
The reason you can't install your Windows is that today's versions enforce the copyright.
Best of luck,
Bob
Hello, any working with HP Pavilions at all? I'm trying to fix a neighbor's PC, looks like a disk failure. Apparently HP does not ship recovery CD's with these, I can't seem to load my own Windows on several HDD's I tried. I get various errors, and what seems like an endless loop of back to the start of installing, but it never gets anywhere. HP apparently does not even carry the Recovery CD's to purchase anymore. Anyway around their recovery method?
-thanks, Russ

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