I've spent way too many hours cleaning up my sons laptop because of viruses introduced via bit torrent.Īt this point, I may just break down and buy the disk from HP as that would be the quickest way to resolve the issue. HP does not seem to have anything I can download and while I appreciate the advice about the digital river mirror site, I have a personal aversion to torrent downloads. I cannot use the Microsoft recovery site since it's an OEM license. Since I happened to have a spare HD, I thought I'd give it a go, but the OEM license is proving to be the sticking point since this was originally a business machine. This laptop is my ex-wife's (we're still friends), and neither of us can afford a new laptop fir her, so I can only try to get a new HD installed and going.
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