HP leave us Stranded over SetRes HELP!!!

OK- right now I am really not friends with HP! Why?
because of a flaw in their script on my HP Media Centre m7480.uk-a which has left me stranded outside of my computer facing a dreaded destructive reinstall because all other methods of recovery (SUGGESTED BY HP) have resulted in a message which reads:
"Cannot Create file c:\hp\bin\SetRes.log"
This message arrives at the very last hurdle of recovery, using either partition or recovery discs...and what's more you are then locked out from SafeMode because a message arrives saying system is not fully installed please reinstall...so it's a stinking Catch 22 and it's impossible to get any sense or help from anyone at HP regarding it.
I use lots of HP equip in my life and always respected them as the top of the tree but now they have left me hanging from it!!
I'm in urgent need to resolve this and would be so grateful to anyone out there with a head and heart able to help me do it (and those others left similarly stranded)
Thank you so much
fitzbillie x

Thanks Hanspuppa for your input re this. whiole the suggested link can get a computer back up and running via the firstboot.bat route, it doesn't resolve the issue, because if once getting back in you try and do a reinstall to factory settings etc the same issue arises...
the Note about LCD flat panel monitors is a nuisance...who has a conventional CRT monitor still hanging about?
shall we all go out and try and buy one just on the 'off-chance' it may resolve an isuue??
Basically HP got something wrong and has not done anything to help those they left stranded...
surely they could rework the script and somehow allow us to download via updates or something??
But yours is a helpful suggestion- but anyone using it will have to accept they will lose data and need to find a way of recovering it though
best wishes

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