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HP is probably using an imaging system. Why do you need to locate those files? What are you trying to do? Does the recovery procedure fail ? Which one are you trying (disk or recovery partition)? Are you trying to make your own disk ? Yes to the last question. I finally made an HP OEM Windows XP SP3 cd with the original oem pk, everything went fine. It shows a genuine oem installation like fresh out of the factory. HP recovery partition is a waste of space so I erased it. No more hp junk.

I know they aren't typical install cds, but shouldn't be some refference of the pk on one of those two discs? Or on th hp_recovery partition??!? No winnt.sif, no unattend.txt. Ho does that os activate if the c drive gets formatted and the os reinstalled by booting the 1st dvd. I didn't figure this out yet. The same for F11 hp_recovery process. What I can understand is probably in the HP world, "format C:" is not an option. You have to start the recovery process either by F11 or booting off the dvd. Then the pk, winnt.sif are backed up from the existing installation and used for the new install. Else there should be some reference to the pk either on the discs or the on the recovery partition. atolica

WHAT is the "pk"? jaclaz product key

Hi all I just formatted my old OEM HP dv5000's hard drive and didn't thought doing a backup of the oembios files, winnt.sif or unattend.txt, but I did backup the pk. The oembios files I can get, but where the heck are the winnt.sif, unattened.txt on the recovery disk or the HP recovery partition??? There nowhere to be found. Did a good search and they aren't there. How does HP calls this a backup partition if the files used for unattened installation are missing. What does HP use? I really need those two files. Can anyone help me out? Thank you.

Can anyone please upload OEMBIOS.CAT and the rest of the OEMBIOS files from a Windows Xp Home French SP3 cd/install? I reinstalled the OS for a friend and forgot to backup the oembios files and now it won't activate. I installed the retail cd. Thanks.

Get access to a 32 bit Windows 7 or install Windows 7 in vmware or virtualbox and do the needed operations in there. Copy bootmgr to the host os and you're done. atolica