Operating system reinstallation

Hi all

I have an old HP Pavillion a1120n who settled with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (no disc available; and no recovery discs too).  Just recently, I wiped and reformatted the hard drive clean because of some problems I had with it.  Can I reinstall XP itself and use the same product key on the COA on the case 25-digit?  I guess I would need to install a XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2, but please let me know if the relocation must be product specific XP in order to use the same product key.

Hi, Steve:

That is right.

The recovery disks will restore the PC it is ' out of the box "what software is the condition.»

The OS and software that you see listed on the product page, it's what needs to be installed after you run the recovery discs. It must also create a recovery partition.

http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00389434

Paul

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