Hi everyone,I've been gifted an HP desktop tower that's got a license key sticker on it for Win 7 Pro OA, but it's not actually installed and I have no disks et.

Hi First thing is to delete your email address from your post. If you have a Licence key (NON OEM) then you can download a copy of W7 from Microsoft. If it is an OEM version then try a 3rd party. ISO images of various Microsoft OS's are available. They can be be downloaded (sometimes you need a licence key other than the HP OEM key) and 'burnt'/expanded to a DVD/USB.

They WONT contain appropriate HP software, like drivers etc. But may enable a repair to be started. A 3rd party downloader like If in doubt please ask. Install Xp On Hp Compaq T5000 Driver.

I'm thinking the HP computer may have a hidden recovery partition on the hard drive for Windows 7. A lot of brand computers have one of those hidden recovery partitions. Archpr 4 53 Serial Chomikuj Szukaj. Not unless you just wiped that partition.

Too bad if you just did that. This guide shows you how to manually start the HP recovery partition on the desktop pc if it still has one on it. It would have definitely had one to begin with when it came out of the factory. It sets the PC back to factory defaults including the factory default Windows installation. It includes all the necessary drivers already in the installation. Can you be more specific? I've never seen or heard of such message, so I'm not sure what is saying that and what it's saying exactly.

I have when i had the DVD drive plugged into a third party sata controller card which didn't have an inbuilt driver in Windows as it used its own third party sata driver. I'm assuming this HP desktop PC uses a non standard sata controller. The OP is out of luck unless he finds the sata driver for it.

It should be on the HP website under the product support for his HP computer model.