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  Dan,

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  The Bureau's instructions are here: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01778879

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  What model of laptop do you have?

  Just to boot from the recovery disk and it will reload Windows to its factory condition.

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• Windows 8 clean install from the recovery partition

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  A primary role of a set of recovery disks is to rebuild a machine after the failure of his HARD drive, in Exchange for a bigger HARD drive (capacity)) or Exchange a HDD with a SSD. I do not see why we cannot use the game in this case.

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• Is it better to clean install or upgrade to Windows 7?

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  Making an Express upgrade will do just fine.

  If the license for Windows 7 Ultimate, you have access to is an upgrade of retail full version or upgrade Express, you can use the product key and upgrade Express from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate. First of all, check that the edition of Windows 7, you are upgrading is already enabled (if it isn't, you will encounter complications and that you might start all by performing a clean installation). Click Start, type Anytime Upgrade, click on the option enter a key, enter the key of Windows 7 Ultimate edition at the request, click Next, wait while checking the key, accept the license agreement, click on upgrade, wait while the software upgrades, (it may take 10 minutes or more depending on the if updates are required) your computer restarts automatically, after the reboot, Windows 7 will notify you updating the computer, the computer will restart once more automatically and will be completed the upgrade, a window will appear notifying the upgrade was successful and your computer is ready to use, click Close, you should be upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate files the stored settings and programs.

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  Gentlemen.
  
  I have a Pavilion a1777c desktop I got recently at a thrift store. Everything needed was a HARD drive, so I put in a Western Digital 1 TB SATA and tried to install Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit which is it bundled with the operating system.
  
  I say "try" because the facility cancelled at the last step, "Installation complete", with a window that pops up reading "Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on a hardware on this computer." As far as I know, everything is just what the computer shipped with - except the most recent, more large capacity HDD.
  
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  Typing this from the newly built Office.

  Any Solution used (thanks to Paul Tikkanen to put me on the right track)

  (01)

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  (02)

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  Size on disk: 2.26 GB - 2,434,596,864 bytes

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  (05)

  I run one - SAPPHIRE HD 5450 1 GB DDR3 PCIE HDMI - Twin (DVI & VGA) graphics card

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  2 - the second test video driver installation is finished - but - screens flickered and flashed like crazy.

  I did correct anything that.

  Wiped the hard drive and run through the steps above.

  This time, making sure to use the original cd that came with the card of 2011. Result!

  PS - In the first leg through after installing windows successfully, I did all the updates of Windows 7.

  It took hours to download and install.

  Second time, I did not bother with the Windows updates immediately.

  Next step-

  3 future issues to be covered in the following threads

  (a) preparation of the utility of the technology Intel Management Acive - entirely private or disabled.

  (Do not need or want but hate having outstanding pilot flags in Device Manager).

  (b) the image of the hard drive and train you to restore boot partitions for multiboot Windows 7 installation.

  (c) work on a quick way to landslide-live stream the latest windows updates in the installation.

  Thanks for the help and I hope that some info above is useful.

  Advice on the high road (preferably free) partition SW of imagery to manage encrypted data of the partitions would be a good thing.

  Next thread?