Hp pavilion os system recovery (windows xp)

hi,
so im having some major problems when im trying to reformat my computer. first off i have a hp pavilion about 5 years old that runs windows xp. i've had to reformat in the past and i have 2 system recovery discs that i've used in the past and have worked. however this time when i try to run them i get to the black and white screen where it says "preparing recovery partition" it gets about 2 minutes in and then says "wrong system disk or disk error, press any key to continue". after i press any key it takes me back to the startup page where i can enter setup, let the operating system load (which i normally do when computer starts up) or go to the boot menu. if i dont go to the boot menu and tell it to run the recovery cd it just gets stuck on a black screen with a blinking cursor. but when i run the recovery cd i get the said error message over and over and over and over...when i do go to the boot menu and choose the recovery disc option a black screen comes up that says "no operating system installed or corrupt partition, press r to start full system recovery". so after i press r it takes me back to the preparing recovery partition screen, where once again it gets an error after about 2 mins of loading. im guessing that the corrupt partition part is whats causing me problems. WHAT DO I DO!? IM SO CONFUSED, i hope that by reading this your not also confused.
please help!

Try booting with a utilty cd to delete all partitions,create 1 and format hdd. I have had good results with the free Partition Wizard .Download the Bootable CD iso here .Get ImgBurn here to burn the image to cd.
Once all operations complete successfully with PW, reboot with Recovery Disks.
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Hi @goshenguy
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If none of the above has allowed you to successfully do a recovery, I suggest contacting Best Buy to see it they have options other then purchasing a third party recovery kit.
Good Luck!
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I can understand the fear of messing up a computer when I first started seriously working on computers back in the early 90's I had to format and re-install my operating system twice a day for quite a while before I figured out a very important step (at least important for me), and that was after I made a change to my computer to restart it. This way if I messed something up I only had to undo one thing and not 50 because I went wild on it. lol
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hi there,
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The recovery attempt has failed. Please select one of the following buttons.
- Details
- Retry
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Hi there @Nacho74
Welcome to the Hp Support Forums!
I understand that you are trying to do a system restore, and getting an error during the process. Also from the information you gave it looks like you installed OS X 10.6. When you installed that did you leave the recovery partition intact?
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Hi again Al259,
Thank you for the quick reply!
If you are not able to successfully restore to a previous working point on your desktop, I recommend performing a backup and recovery of your operating system. This can be done by following the steps in this resource on Backing Up Your Files (Windows 8), as well as Performing an HP system recovery (Windows 8). This should return your system back to factory defaults.
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I hope this helps!
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Satellite L505D-S5983
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Yes, of course! See the link to your model's spec above.
My apologies. The previous link went to a spec for the Satellite A505-S6960 (which came with Windows Vista installed). I had too many spec pages open at the same time and got them mixed.
So, are you telling me that I won't get this one to work?(the BPKT)
No. But you may face the problems that I outlined in this message.
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