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| 252015 | 2004-07-14 00:36:00 | > I guess the next question is, can you demand from > HP?Compaq the OEM disc? I have a feeling you may be able to get one if you ask HP/Compaq themselves,Not the retailer,but you will have to pay for it. Give them a ring & see what they have to say. Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 252016 | 2004-07-14 00:49:00 | > I guess the next question is, can you demand from > HP?Compaq the OEM disc? Have recently been told by HP that once stock of recovery cd's for any model run out then thats it,No more will be made available. Granted the comp i was trying to get them for was about 4 to 5 years old(6605).....but still,it was a spanner in the works ..... |
metla (154) | ||
| 252017 | 2004-07-14 02:18:00 | A lot of Compaq Deskpros have a maintenance partition (type 12) which is what you get when you hit F10 for BIOS setup. Last time I looked it gives you the option of making a set of floppies which can restore that partition if the disk is replaced. When I picked up a Deskpro with no harddisk, I just downloaded the "ROMPaq" from Compaq and that made the floppies. I didn't try a recovery CD --- didn't have one.:D My "new" Compaq 1230 laptop recovery disk reformats the harddiskand installed W98, and I didn't see any such maintenance partition when Linux went to shrink the MS partition. Backi to topic, If you got Office as part of the computer purchase, a real MS Office CD is part of it. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 252018 | 2004-07-14 03:39:00 | My Asus laptop had a 2g hidden partition and recovery cd's. While installing the software for my dv cam it asked for the winxp cd, recovery cd failed to satisfy it (no surprises there) and the installation was aborted. I then had to spend the next 2 hours looking for obscure .dll’s and .drv files via google. An extremely tedious process, a waste of my valuable time and I don't doubt over and above the capabilities of the casual user. Suffice to say after all my jacking around I deleted the partitions and installed an oem copy of Windows, Not only did I get back my 2GB of stolen storage area but I’m no longer tied into the pitiful excuse for common sense that is the recovery process. |
metla (154) | ||
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