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| Thread ID: 83414 | 2007-10-01 04:12:00 | Recovery Disks HP a450a | xineohp (3165) | Press F1 |
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| 596653 | 2007-10-02 03:29:00 | Recovery disks are not the same as OEM copies of Windows. HP, Dell and other OEMs put recovery partitions on their hard drives from which you can restore back to factory settings, including all the 'free' software and trialware they provide. In the case of Windows XP, Microsoft has allowed copies to be available through retail and OEM suppliers until at least April 2008. Just to clear up any mis- readings - I was answering Cho's comment regarding the comment made regarding the Purchase of Vista. The recovery disks as you point out are the whole Operating system along with all the "crap" the manufacture puts on. OEM sales of XP will be available till June 30th 2008 - and system builders like myself will have it till 31st January 2009. See Here (www.microsoft.com) for complete details. You can use the product key from a Name brand PC if you want to install XP, you simply grab an XP cd from someone, use the attached product key and sometimes you have to call MS and tell then the hard drive had to be replaced and you used the product key on the case and they activate it. Other times like today on a customers PC their HD had failed with the recovery partition gone as well it is an HP - reinstall the OS - you enter the product key on the case and it activates right away. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 596654 | 2007-10-02 04:32:00 | Just to clear up any mis- readings - I was answering Cho's comment regarding the comment made regarding the Purchase of Vista. Indeed, just keeping the thread to topic :) OEM sales of XP will be available till June 30th 2008 - and system builders like myself will have it till 31st January 2009. My bad - referenced the wrong date. In which case HP should support their Recovery disks all the way through to January 2009. When I got mine I was a newbie at reinstalling hard drives, and found it a lot less intimidating to use them at the time than dealing with a wipe and clean install of Windows. |
wiselark (12849) | ||
| 596655 | 2007-10-02 04:40:00 | In which case HP should support their Recovery disks all the way through to January 2009. I'm glad you put SHOULD :lol: - but will they :rolleyes: if you go by what MS say, then you should be able to still buy New HP's with XP, but they are hard to find since Vista came out, and By 2009 ??? Hmmmm. Back on topic - The HP recovery Disk could still be purchased from HP for the A450A, but not free of course. But as I wrote before there is still a way to make new ones, just long winded. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 596656 | 2007-10-02 08:36:00 | yeah i would rather get th OEM version as well. I probably heard wrong on the getting the upgrade disc only, attention span at times is a bit wobbly. So if i buy a lot of a system from a online store will they be able to give me the OEM price for the OS, or would i have to fork out the whole $1000. if so might stick with XP. anyway back on topic. ya problem been fixed? |
Cho (12330) | ||
| 596657 | 2007-10-02 23:12:00 | Thanks for all your help. I took the CD's down to the video shop and got them cleaned and I was able to make another set from them. I have done two sets and one have been put away in a safe place. Cheers for all your help:thumbs: |
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