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| Thread ID: 110255 | 2010-06-09 10:56:00 | is this a good deal? | goodiesguy (15316) | Press F1 |
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| 1108524 | 2010-06-10 03:29:00 | i've never had to deal with recovery partitions. i've formatted and reinstalled on my old laptop a few times but that didn't have a recovery partition. i've done many pc's too. i just never had to deal with recovery partitions | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1108525 | 2010-06-10 08:23:00 | so i just format and reinstall and get the drivers and software off the net? (or how do i backup the software?) | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1108526 | 2010-06-10 08:53:00 | Most of the preinstalled software will be bloatware crap. Things like trial versions of Norton AV etc, no point in backing that up. Anything which is critical for the PC to function will be available for download on HP's website. Personally I would save an image of the drive with Norton Ghost, then do a clean install and download the latest drivers from HP etc. That way, If you do run into problems you can restore the original image, and then do a standard restore install from the recovery partition. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1108527 | 2010-06-10 09:05:00 | so i just format and reinstall and get the drivers and software off the net? (or how do i backup the software?) You get the motherboard drivers off the net and use removable media to save same before you format. Then you format and install the O/S. Then you install the drivers. As was mentioned before if you have to ask then you probably should not be doing it. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1108528 | 2010-06-10 09:06:00 | afaik the recovery partition you can just access it and you will reimage your hard drive. they don't give you a cd, they save cost. however if you fdisk and wipe all the partitions you will lose the recovery files - that's your windows files, cos there might be no CDs... if you format the c: - not sure. maybe it be ok. it might be unaffected. i dunno how that start up screen is saved. if yo somehow wreck that linkage, you may find the recovery partition there but the hot key message when you turn on the computer dissapear so you cannot press those keys to access it .... :badpc: the importance here is really image your physical hdd containing all partitions. so you have something to fall back on. if you don't want any of it .. nuke the hdd - and install your own windows on it. but you've paid for that recovery partition window thingy.... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1108529 | 2010-06-11 04:06:00 | yep its a good deal, don't have another one at that price?, my old lappie broke and shes going to cost a bit to fix I feel | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1108530 | 2010-06-11 04:26:00 | what's the problem with it? | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
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