Lost my genuine copy of pre-installed windows

[mahesh-m]

Hello sir..

I have hp pevilion g6-1301tx powered with windows7 homebasic operating system.. Recently i have accidentally formatted my whole hdd.. In microsoft recovery option they are saying contact your product maunufaturer to recover your genuine copy.. So can u assit me to recover back my genuine windows..

Thanks in advance

[visruth]

Hi


I'm not able to find any 3rd party seller selling your HP recovery discs.

HP would not be stocking recovery media for this old model

If you desire, you can clean install Windows 7 Home Basic 64 bit following Paul Tikkanen's suggestion:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/want-windows-7-back/m-p/5926128

Tutorial: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

Additional drivers from here: http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-g6-1300-Notebook-PC-series/5186808/model...


Regards

Visruth

[mahesh-m]

Hello sir
I i do so, wipl it be the genuine copy?

[visruth · Accepted solution]

Yes if you can clearly read all 25 characters of product activation key of Windows 7 Home Basic COA sticker

[mahesh-m]

Yeah i have that lable on my notebook.. Thank you very much

[Ankitarajak]

I am not able to read one character of my product key!

[kevin-t]

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