rhozgordon
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Hi, I'm Mrs G, just turned 60 but have been working on computers for 30 years. I said working on not building or dealing with hardware mostly software. Anyway my hp mini 110 hd operating on xp crashed - call HP of course and their recommendation was to buy another hdd since they no longer had them in supply. Did that copied the recovery disk to usb flash, inserted it and at first it said "windows loading", then got "insert boot disk". Called HP they told me the recovery disk is only to recovery a drive that's been used - new hdd has nothing on it so there is nothing to recover. Contacted the seller of the hdd and he said I have to load a "full version of OEM OS' - made since to me til I saw the prices. Searched everywhere to find these files to download, haven't given up yet but since it's a new hdd can't I now load it with windows 7 instead of staying with xp, saw a lot of downloads for that but not for OEM OS free or relatively inexpensive - any one out there with any suggestions? The netbook is mine and the desktop is his and he's not too happy about sharing.