I need help installing windows on my laptop please.

I have a HP Notebook - 15-f233wm (ENERGY STAR) with no windows on it. I have no other computer and no flash drives. All I have is a windows vista business 32 bit install cd. Attached are pictures.

Is there something one of you fine folks can suggest I try to do? I've used this cd just fine in vmware before so I know it's good.

Pictures included are as follows:
1) Bios Main
2) Bios Boot Options (Legacy support making it weird?)
3) Boot from HDD
4) Install failed
5) Diskpart

Edited by Useful_Idiot666, 29 March 2022 - 06:42 PM.

I have a HP Notebook - 15-f233wm (ENERGY STAR) with no windows on it.

Why not install the Windows 10 Home 64 that came with it? If Vista installs you will have issues with drivers.

 

I have no other computer and no flash drives.

Flash drives are cheap. You do not have any friends or family with a computer?

It seems I was able to get around diskpart and clean my drive, but the install still errors out.

I would install 10 if this computer was good enough to handle it haha. Wanting to put 7 on there but when I tried that it didn't work and then I tried this vista cd and then it just went very wrong. I just moved to a new area and don't know anyone unfortunately:p

I'm seeking to go to a legacy os for better performance in games due to less background processes and such.

I doubt you will be able to find Vista drivers for that computer as the computer was pre-installed with Windows 10.  The biggest problem you will have is the CPU. The computer specs with an intel Celeron N3050 and it's a low end processor. Games will not play well with that CPU and integrated intel graphics. It's not a gaming computer.

 

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N3050+%40+1.60GHz&id=2541

It ran anything I wanted to play at like 15-20 fps. GH3PC ran at 60. I don't care about paper specs I just want my laptop to work:/

Basically I'm trying to install vista to get 7 on there.

I have just verified that all the drivers I need are available for windows 7. Please just if anyone can help me install vista I can do the rest:((

Something to note about the install itself is on the "copying files" stage it completes immediately and tries to expand the files. obviously this is not right.

Maybe someone with way too much time on there hands can trace that code somewhere. I obviously can't debug without an OS:p

Edited by Useful_Idiot666, 29 March 2022 - 09:12 PM.

Or if anyone knows if it's the disc or the fact i'm in legacy mode? what exactly is causing this issue?

I'll do research on my phone but here's the error code should anyone be so inclined: 0x80070017

I really don't think it's bad media. It's an official microsoft disc not scratched too much and everything was working on the computer as of 2 days ago now. And i've used this same disc in vmware ezpz no issues.

Edited by Useful_Idiot666, 29 March 2022 - 09:20 PM.

Basically I'm trying to install vista to get 7 on there.

The computer came installed with windows 10 >> HP Support