system restore environment is incomplete

i have a hewlett packard pavilion 6653c with a hawk motherboard..the hard
drive failed..i put in a hard drive from a gateway computer i had..its
running xp sp2 home edition..when i boot up it goes through everything and
gets to system restore screen..that when i get a pop up window stating that
my system restore environment is incomplete and ask me to put in system
restore %MEDIA_TYPE%1 cd in...i never got a cd...i don't have to old tower
with the product key on it..i know you guys can kick me later..lol..how do i
fix this..

You wont be able to boot up with a hd from another PC
Not only will a gateway winxp probably not run on a HP sys, because its tied
to the origonal gateway hardware, but if it wasnt you would have to run a
repair installation of winxp in order to install the correct drivers.

"Danny LeBeouf" <Danny LeBeouf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i have a hewlett packard pavilion 6653c with a hawk motherboard..the hard
> drive failed..i put in a hard drive from a gateway computer i had..its
> running xp sp2 home edition..when i boot up it goes through everything and
> gets to system restore screen..that when i get a pop up window stating
> that
> my system restore environment is incomplete and ask me to put in system
> restore %MEDIA_TYPE%1 cd in...i never got a cd...i don't have to old tower
> with the product key on it..i know you guys can kick me later..lol..how do
> i
> fix this..