Hard drive crashed and Dont Have the recovery disk

[Krishna_Kadambi]

Hi All, Where could I find the OS Recovery Media for HP Pavillion DV6 Entertainment PC. I have lost the Disc and my hard drive has crashed. I have installed a new Hard Drive and also Upgraded the Ram to 8 GB. Ideally I can install now 64 BIT OS if available

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

HP no longer sells recovery media for your notebook.

Can you still read all 25 characters of the Windows 7 product key on your PC's case?

If so I can give you the link to a W7 Home Premium 64 bit English (US) ISO file you can download and hopefully the product key on your notebook's case will work on it.

[Krishna_Kadambi]

Hi Paul, 

I do have the 25 Digit code on the back of the laptop intact and I can use the link to download the ISO file for Win7 Home Premium 64 Bit. 

Thanks a ton for the support, appreciate it 

Regards

Krishna

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome, Krishna.

Below is the link to the W7 x64 Home Premium English (US) ISO file.

https://download.microsoft.com/download/E/A/8/EA804D86-C3DF-4719-9966-6A66C9306598/7601.24214.180801...

The link will be good for up to 24 hours from the time I post this reply.

Use the Microsoft tool that I zipped up and attached below that you will need to transfer the ISO file to a DVD or USB flash drive so that it is bootable.

After W7 has completed installing, you can install the drivers and available software from your notebook's support page.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-dv6-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/40...

Since the ISO file is a retail file, and the Windows 7 product key on your notebook's case is OEM, you may have to use the automated Microsoft phone activation system to activate Windows.

Hopefully it will work for you.  I know it works on PC's from the USA and Canada, so it will be an experiment to see if it works on PC's from India as well.