Help with a facotry reinstall

only one small catch with that...vista wont let you make the partition active

 

so the purpose creating that recovery cd in gateway recovery centre is only to gain access to the D drive??

 

not sure what your getting at....

 

and you would make a recovery dvd if im not mistaken.... less disc

 

is there a simple solution to booting off the D partition to engage the factory reinstall or will it be a complex task

 

In the amount of time you try to figure this out you could have reinstalled everything just like it was new, and played Crysis a few times.

 

looks like a fresh reinstall and proper recovery set up is on the way for me. I like to tackle these problems, fortunately, a fresh reinstall seems to be the better path to me now.

thanks for the help guys..

 

yeah....im inclined to agree, but!...yes, there is allways a but with us *nosey, want to understand, can't let it go, have to understand why it didn't work, find the working solution, fix the problem, give our selves high fives....then..........do a factory reinstall because something else crashed...lmao

you know that is the standard operation and procedure.

 

I had the same problem with my M6846, I tried to run the system recovery on the HD with no luck, I did a fresh install, but left that damn partition, I guess I was in denial. I would wipe the d partition when doing the fresh install, I think it takes up 14g, what a wast of space.

 

i just cant bring myself to do it...that 7 gigs it is using compared to the 300 plus gigs im not even using.... yep..that 6.7 gigs is safe with my system. if i decide to sell, i just load the factory system and remove my upgrades and call it a day. (probably not going to happen like that any time soon, but i just like to have that option handy)

and it's there for me to help others find it....

 

Johnksss, you da man!

 

nope..im the other man!.. you the man, im just trying to catch up

 

Nope you have a X9000, I need to catch up

 

now i wish i had a bios to keep up with my chip. that was the other consideration with going with a clevo. they over clock higher.

 

Does the Clevo have the same mobo and chipset? Maybe flash the bios with the Clevo???? lol

 

don't think i didn't give that some serious thought....

 

hit it right on the nose there I decided to give it one last try after reading that and low and behold, i got to boot off D and the factory reinstall initiated. Im back to factory settings and in the process of backing up D:\Recovery to DVD. I did this with Paragon.

 

well will you lookie there!! i knew you had it in you! good job.

 

paragon is looking alot like acronis...... and i love acronis for backing up and partitioning hard drives.

 

I use acronis as well, its a great program.

 

i second that!!

 

hhmm, I thought I suggested that

Way to go.........

I like Acronis too. I've re-installed so many times- I can do it under 20 minutes now.....

 

and i thought i was the only one that reinstalled or re cloned ones laptop ...just to make sure it all worked.

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