This DVD actually brought a dead computer back to life. If you have a computer that is a brick and bought right at the time that Windows 10 was being rolled out you will probably need unless you made a recovery DVD versus flash drive this maybe the only thing that will get you back up and running. In any case if you upgraded your recovery material will bring your computer back to in my case 8.1 (At least that what I read on HP's website). Since I didn't want to to this and luckily was fully backed up I wanted to replace the dead HD with an SSD and do a fresh install.
Since it was a family computer I am not sure how the Hard Drive started to crash and didn't trust Windows Defender. We wanted the new drive to be "fresh" so wanted to start totally fresh. So my first thought was buy the flash drive since that is my typical recovery media for our computers. Unfortunately it did not work double checking the bios to allow USB boot.. Not sure why and maybe it was due to the 8.1 to 10 OS upgrade. Anyhow as much as I changed and played with the Bios I could always hear the DVD drive wanting to boot. I thought got nothing to really lose and reviews mentioned it worked in this capacity but not sure about the OS upgrades. Bought this stuck in the drive and it started right up. My first attempt to get the HD to become smart did fail (it happens at the very end) because I picked upgrade choice and I had nothing to upgrade. Instead you want to pick new install. I believe the license for windows is buried in the bios and new install finds that license automatically. After that it was pretty straightforwards and relatively quick to install.
In summary, this DVD was all i needed to get back up and running. It was so simple to bring a totally dead PC back to life.
Compatible with Windows 10 Home and Professional 32/64 Bit Repair, Install, Recover & Restore DVD
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| 1,763 ratingsPrice: 11.99
Last update: 01-11-2025
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Repair boot manager is missing, NTLDR is missing
Blue Screens of Death (BSOD) and more,Works on any make or model computer, as long as you have a valid product key to install
This item does not include a key code or a license. You must have your own key code to use the install option.
Blue Screens of Death (BSOD) and more,Works on any make or model computer, as long as you have a valid product key to install
This item does not include a key code or a license. You must have your own key code to use the install option.