Compaq Cq61. Windows 7. How to use 3 recovery disks?

When I bought, I made 3 as recommended HP recovery disks. Now, I want to use them, but can't see how. I tried to start with #1 load - no joy. I also tried the option Start button/F11 on UTube. That no longer works.

I read earlier Q and has but none seem good enough to me. Any advice would be welcome.

Thank you.

Hello:

Have disk 1 in the PC and turn on the PC. From the beginning of the HP welcome screen, press the F9 key to start the start time menu.  Select the DVD player.  Press the return key.

If the drive is good, you will see a message on your screen that says in essence... Attempt to boot from DVD... Press a key to boot from the DVD...

Press a key and the recovery disk should start working.

Then simply follow the instructions on the screen.

If that does not work, then you probably have a few bad discs and you will need to order a series of HP.

Or if you can read the product key of MS of W7 of 25 characters on the bottom of your PC, you can make your own regular installation of W7 media.

Here's how:

If you can read the Microsoft windows 7 25-character product key, you can download simple Windows 7 ISO files to burn on a DVD for the version of windows that is installed on your PC, and which is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC case.

Burn the ISO with the option to burn the ISO on your DVD burning program and burn it at the slowest possible speed that will allow your program. This will create a bootable DVD.

Or use the installation of Windows 7 USB/DVD tool to compile the ISO file that you download from Digital River. Link and instructions below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB compilation method.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

Use 25 characters on the PC product key to activate the installation.

The key will activate a 32 or 64 bit installation.

Then go to the support of the PC and driver page to install the drivers you need.

Link to downloads ISO of W7 is below.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-Windows-7-SP1-ISO-from-Digital-River/

Paul

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