Looking though a stack of old discs, I found an official HP "Operating System Recovery CD" for "Windows XP Professional Service Pak 2"

Presumably this came with an HP system I had at one point - Long gone and I don't recall the exact model etc. It doesn't list what models it's for, only:

"PLEASE NOTE: The software on the CD is already installed." and "Store in a safe place and refer to you user documentation if you need to reinstall or repair your system software".

It's been my experience that these "recovery" CDs often contain the drivers needed for a number of different models, so it *might* have what you need.

But... The question is legality. It does say "(C) Copyright 2007 Hewlet-Packard Development Company L.P." and "Portions (C) 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved".

Presumably an HP system of the era might have an OEM license, but I have no ability to confirm exactly if/what license it would have.

The CD does say "For the latest software and drivers, visit www.hp.com/support" - and that site does apper to still exist - perhaps you can find what you need there.

im sorry i didnt get notified about this repsone my notifications must be off.... but by any chance if you know how to make an iso image go ahead and make one and you can upload it to archive.org and send me the public link so i can download it. i will gladly thank you for it.

Not what you want… Microsoft itself still has (last I checked) a downloadable version of XP for POS on its own website, Just need the product code on your machine.

Sadly no drivers but it should be the last version of XP

Sorry, my delay now....

A someone who made a living writing/selling software, I'm slightly uncomfortable with sending it... But I do know from experience that OEM "recovery" discs won't install on systems other than ones by that OEM having a BIOS key (and you could find them in the physical trash in many companies *1)

I also see that you can download an more generic XP image directly from Msoft.

So... I sent you a PM with a link to a 7zipped ISO of the HP_OS_RECOVERY CD on a Google drive.

Let us know if it works out for you. Hopefully it will have drivers you might need on it.

*1 I did some work for a local company that used Dell systems internally with Linux, and would often see Dell Win7 recovery DVDs in the trash. So I brought a couple home... I happen to have 4 Dell systems which have Win7 "key stickers" on them, and these install on all of them without prompting for a key.

They also won't install on anything else!

If the disc contains what I presume it does - and I believe it does! - then the disc contains a pretty much empty image of XP x86 SP2, with no real changes done, other than requiring the other supplied disc to start the installer at all. I successfully used those disks to install XP on a C2D-era ThinkPad circa 2015 with no issues.

Deschutes wrote on 2026-03-31, 08:12:

... the disc contains a pretty much empty image of XP x86 SP2, with no real changes done, other than requiring the other supplied disc ...

I'm not so sure... it does say:

"contains software and drivers already installed"
"Store in a safe place and refer to your user documentation if you need to reinstall or repair your system software"
"Support for these products provided by HP"
- and has both Msoft and HP copyright notices.

I have had other systems which shipped with a generic Msoft WinXP recovery disc and also a vendor supplied driver/clutter disc.

No mention of another disc and I don't recall any other discs coming with that system ... I think it is a complete OEM install of WinXP.
but it has been a long time...

I would suggest Hp Windows Xp Media Center edition 2005 OS ...