need help to do a destructive recovery with hp

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  1. dmanpsp

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    I recently let a friend use my old hp pavillian and something happened and they reloaded windows with a disc. They didn't touch the partition on the harddrive where the original windows xp is. I gave them the disc for the windows load but now it's plain jane windows xp. The link that was in all programs (hp recovery:recovery) is gone. I'm wanting to reload the original windows back on. The pc never came with any disc, everything is on the partition. Can anyone help. Don't knnow if I covered everything but will answer any Questions to get it back to normal. Thanks
     
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    KillerBug Active member

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    I don't know why anyone would actualy want that bloatware, but you can probably get it from the HP website. While your at it, download a few viruses and some spyware to make sure the system goes as slow as when HP sold it.
     
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    You are not useful, you should probably hang yourself, and the hp is faster than the brand new dell I bought. I'm looking for help not retarded comments.
     
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    If you press f11 as the computer boots this should activate the recovery partition. Hope this helps.
     
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    The f11, f2, ctrl f11, none of these work, they all bring up bios menu. Thanks though
     

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