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Anonymous   05-17-2005 at 03:57:58 PM

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I have an HP Pavilion zt1000 series notebook, that came with Win XP Home and
unusable recovery disks (one disk is bad). Since my HD failed, I want to
install Win XP Pro on the new HD and I am looking for drivers.
Have never done this for a laptop. What do people usually do?
Is there any alternative to buying a set of recovery disks from HP,
installing the original Windows and upgrading? BTW, the HP site only has
downloads of driver updates, not the original drivers.
Thanks for any suggestions.

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Tee   05-17-2005 at 04:15:16 PM
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"VWGuy" <VWGuy@VWGuy.com> wrote in message
news:wHmie.122$Uy2.9@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
>I have an HP Pavilion zt1000 series notebook, that came with Win XP Home
>and
> unusable recovery disks (one disk is bad). Since my HD failed, I want to
> install Win XP Pro on the new HD and I am looking for drivers.
> Have never done this for a laptop. What do people usually do?
> Is there any alternative to buying a set of recovery disks from HP,
> installing the original Windows and upgrading? BTW, the HP site only has
> downloads of driver updates, not the original drivers.
> Thanks for any suggestions.

I've done it on ze5500. I downloaded the wlan, bios, mediadrivefirmware and
touchpad to a usb drive. Installed XP Pro and ended up only needing to use
the touchpad.exe driver I'd downloaded because XP Pro was able to make
everything else work.

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Tara

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Tee   05-17-2005 at 05:06:44 PM
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"VWGuy" <VWGuy@VWGuy.com> wrote in message
news:Benie.835$BU2.238@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> Great. Did you download from the HP site, were you able to find your
> drivers
> there? Since my old HD is dead, I cannot recover the drivers from the HD
> itself.
> Thanks.

Yes it was from the HP website. Go here, select the model you have then
selct XP Pro for the OS on the next screen and you should get a bunch of
drivers to select from.

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Tee   05-17-2005 at 05:07:27 PM
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Sorry:

http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Loo [...] submit.y=0

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