Printer CD will not install software and drivers

Laptop: Acer Aspire 3690 series
Model: BL50
OS: Windows Vista SP2 Home Basic (32 bit)
Printer: HP Desktop F4100 series
*To my knowledge both laptop and printer are old models, with the laptop being as old as 7 years.
Short Story: After formatting my laptop and reinstalling the OS, the CD won't install the drivers from the disc so the printer would work correctly on my computer. It always results in an error.
Long Story: My Windows Vista laptop had an issue. There was a problem with the OS that kept mysteriously eating up space of the computer hard drive. It was so bad that the computer kept reporting it had 0 bytes of free space left on the hard drive. I always had to find free up space somehow because the printer won't print without free space. I couldn't even use my superiorly better computer because the printer only works with Windows 2000, XP and Vista, it doesn't work with Windows 7 (I tried). One day I decided I had enough of it and reinstalled the OS of the laptop. I used DriverMax and exported all of the drivers from my laptop to my flash drive since I don't remember my laptop coming with a driver disc. Everything went smooth and my laptop was operating like new except for one issue: No matter how many times I tried, I could not install the printer drivers from the printer disc onto the computer.
When the disc is installing the drivers and software, this would show:
and then this error:
I wasn't sure if I there was a model number on the printer or not but here is a photo of it:
Getting help from the HP Support forum seems to be my only option so hopefully I can find a solution here. Thank you to anyone in advance who can help me resolve this I would really like to get this fix as I not too long ago bought several cartridges for this printer to last a while, and there's not much money to buy a printer OR another computer.
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The printer software for your OS may be available for download from the printer's Support pages.
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