If the disks are incorrectly made, or the model incorrectly selected on them through the featurebyte/Build ID comparison then it will incorrectly partition the drive and give an unrecoverable error with a 0x error code, this is occurring because the partition for the OS is so small that the image that HP uses or the extra software they are installing are unable to fit on the partition that is made. If it does not match any of the models it will give an error that the disks are incompatible with the computer and will not go any farther, this error will occur prior to the Recovery Manager coming up. The way the HP recovery disks work is they compare the featurebyte and build ID information input on the motherboard and compare them to a list of models that the specific recovery disk is released for.
This has to be done when a motherboard is installed into the unit, and not doing this can cause various errors during the recovery disks that HP uses and give a 'Code Purple' in windows, causing the operating system to be locked down and unable to be used. Alright, so everyone assuming that it is windows activation is wrong, the tattoo process is a process specific to HP units.
