I hope this is under the right section but I have an HP Pavilion 6635 and as anyone that look it up will know that it is a very old piece of junk, but i upgraded it from its original OS (windows 98se) to XP, and now that I upgraded it the recovery disk doesn't work, cause i had to use a oem install, so it reformatted hard drive, any idea as to how to trick it into thinking its a pavilion 6635?

Hi-- Welcome to PCHF

Nope-- those are proprietary/copyrighted versions on OEM machines...

One question I have is why are you trying to use the old recovery disc-- when you have a retail version of XP installed-- You can use the XP install disc to recover the machine.

uh i borrowed an OEM disk from friend and i happen to have a key that had an activation left... not sure if that's completely legal... but i had a legal key that i didn't find on the internet nor did i crack the OS so i consider it legal... anyways 98os had too many security flaws and this PC is moms, i just doing this so she doesn't get hacked with all her passwords stored on the PC. the OEM disk was a simple XP install, not specific to a certain model, it was like an upgrade disk, but u wipe your hard drive, not like a OEM that came with laptop that has office and all that stuff on it. Wow I hope this post doesn't get me banned... I'm just a smart teen with computers, not "legal smart"...

Anyways, the recovery disk im using is the one with application recovery, not the full system recovery, and just mentioning the Pavilion came with 2 recovery disks, guessing its cause in that era we didnt have dvd-rom drives so much so its on 2 disks, but 1 disk is the full recovery and the other is the application recovery.

1 of those discs have your old windows 98 on it and the other one is probably the drivers and free software they give you at HP. i doubt either one is any good for you since you re-did the whole OS. i agree with 8bills , you wont need those discs anymore. you can always recover from the xp disc. Now did you make sure and get all your drivers ? right click , my computer, properties, then click the "hardware" tab, now click "device manager" and just look down the list and if you see any yellow question marks then your missing a driver on that item.

its not any driver problems really, i just want to get some of the software it came with back, i know how to get it off the cd and install it from all the folders but its a pain in the **** to do so i was hoping i could get the thing to recognizze the pc again. also thot i would mention something random, theres a program in the recovery cd i accessed that is a old 16 bit program that tells the info about ur pc it detets, specificly the hp model of your computer and s/nand such, but it registers as what the pc, tho 2 blanks say unknown, thot this was weird that it could detet all this but not realize wen i try to use cd that im on a pavilion . This isnt of great importance a tall, its my moms pc, and i am happy cause i reformatted it with xp b4 but i didnt convert the hard drive to ntfs, so it was using fat32...

just for interest im going to list its specs to show how pathetic it is xD

Processor: 533MHz
Ram: PC100(i think) 320MB RAM Total
Graphics: Integrated intel 82810 series(i think), and a pci slot nvidea FX5500 256mb mem
Powersupply: uh think its 500 watt, hanging out the back of pc cause it wont fit inside, and the original is 100 wat and wont power the pci graphics card xD
cd-rom(no writing anything)
3.5 inch floppy
Hard drives: c:\ 9gb NTFS
D:\ 3GB NTFS
DOnt remember the motherboard model but i do know that the fastest processor it can handle is a 1GHz intel pentium 2 i think
(if i made up any info, it was on accident, because im suuposed to be doing homework write now and i cant just waltz up o the pc and look at its specs)

those programs you are trying to use are not going to work at all , specially the "detect program" . as you are using ntfs now and im sure those programs are not compatible with xp , first of all the only thing that makes that pc a HP is the plastic case, (and thats who put the parts together) more than likely EVERY other part in the machine is another name brand so your windows disc wont reconize the pc as a HP, also i have a OLD dell with a pentium 2 (397mhz) and 384 of pc 100 RAM , I too put xp sp3 on there and it runs great!! unbelievable ! that thing CONVERTS and burns dvds ! i can do anything i want to on it except play games of course! so i am a pure witness to a 1997 machine that still rolls out! i use nero 7 and norton 360 with it !