Full Recovery Disks??

I used the Gateway Recovery Management to create System Restore and Driver and Application Backup Disks. I would like to wipe the HDD and install Windows 7beta. My question is, if i decide to re-install Vista from the Restore disks will I be losing any thing that came include with the PC? Just want to make sure I don't screw up and have a dead PC with no OS to install if something goes bad.

 

If you made Driver and Application disc and the Factory Default disc
you should be fine.
This first one has all drivers and programs which has been installed
on your computer. The second one has entire original contents that
Gateway loaded on the drive, the Windows Vista, software and drivers.

 

Thanks for the response

 

I plan to do the same thing. I have Windows 7 7048 (64) running right now, but I plan to add a 2nd hard drive and stripe my 7805.

I have an impossible time trying to burn the recovery disks as I think the Geeks messed the machine up when they took it off display.

I tried Gway's chat function to get disks directly from them. A stupendous waste of time. The fellow told me that I could buy the disks "in a store" or from a particular website. I explained that BB doesn't have them, checked the site he referred me to and it didn't have the disks for any recent Gway machine.

I had better luck with both calling and emailing. I got two sets of disks "for free" (considering that they should includes disks with the machines they sell).

If you've purchased your machine recently, I suggest you call or email and get a set as well.

 

If I've made the recovery disks, can the hidden partition be deleted or does the recovery process need them?

 

If you delete the recovery partition you will not be able to reinstall
the operating system using Gateway Recovery Center. The only
option will be to use recovery discs which you made.

By the way, clone your discs, make two copies of each disc, you
know just in case.

Cheers...

 

Oh and I want to mention a gotcha here. This was really odd but it was reproducable. If you have raid enabled you can restore fine. On the first reboot after it finishes doing it's update (this being after first time setup) you will find that it comes up "Operating System Not Found" or something like that. Check the bios and you will find that it reverted to AHCI mode. Switch it back to RAID and you should be good to go from there.