How to remove HDD P6755a Pavilion Desktop

[PaulusNZ]

Paul, one of the problems with this whole business is that it assumes I have access to a decent computer in the first place. I don't. I'm using my daughter's old laptop Dell with Vista home premium, and boy it has some problems. It's sloowwwwww.

And seeing as I couldnt get IE9 to work at all well, I deleted it on the understanding I had a link to IE9 from MS. And I installed it and it's only IE7 and the MS help doesn't work for Vista. yadda yadda yadda.

Can you please help me to re-install IE9 on this Vista computer?

Thank you!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Here is the link to download IE9...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/internet-explorer-9-details.aspx

You may also want to use the Firefox browser instead of IE9, since it is no longer supported.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

[PaulusNZ]

Im using FF 52.9 ESR. But also luckily I have retored IR9 using system restore.

[PaulusNZ]

Right. I have found that after starting downloader.exe the page is not drawing properly in either FF or IE,but at least in IE if I click on a small rectangle above and attached to the left of the "confirm" button a drop down list appears. Im guessing I should click on win 7 home premium SP1 COEM. But then a language option appears that is a long tall rectangle that is populated with exactly nothing.

Help! You gotta love computers when they go right, but what a time hole when they don't

Again, thank you for your help.

Paul

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, Paul:

I havel used the tool to generate a link to the W7 Home Premium COEM English x64 ISO file.

The link will be good for 24 hours.   Hopefully it will work...

https://software-download.microsoft.com/pr/Win7_HomePrem_SP1_English_COEM_x64.iso?t=f8fe3a68-ee2c-44...

[PaulusNZ]

Lovely, thank you. So just to confirm - my HP copy is an OA - preloaded - and my product key will work with the version I am to download? What a minefield!

Thank you!

Paul

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

That is correct.

[PaulusNZ]

Download is almost a third of the way through.

I found this on HP site  https://support.hp.com/nz-en/document/c02681163

So in itself HP no longer provides the win 7 op system in question?

There is also this http://www.shayatik.com/2013/03/download-windows-7-sp1-official-iso-from-digital-river/  Is this relevant?

Kudos indeed!

Paul

[Paul_Tikkanen]

That is correct.

HP no longer carries recovery media for your PC, and the link you posted...If you click on any of those files, the links no longer work.

Microsoft deactivated those links 3 years ago.

Remember...this is your plan B if the recovery disks you made don't work for some reason.

[PaulusNZ]

Plan B it is. Disk burned. I will be in touch in due course. Thank you again!

Paul