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    P-7805u Placeing Vista onto a DVD

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by puterg33k, Jul 19, 2009.

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    puterg33k Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know how to do this without using the recovery thing? Mine doesn't work at all.

    I've tried DVD+R, DVD-R, CD-R+R. It's hopeless and gateway wants me to send them my laptop. LAME! Not going to happen...

    I wanted to know if anyone knew how to place the image they use onto a CD/DVD.
     
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    sparkyman2000 Notebook Consultant

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    I believe that your only able to burn once or even try to burn the recovery once. I suggest that you get a Vista disk, all your drivers, Sp2, and vlite to make your own.

    Do you still have the recovery partition? You could use ubcd to recover from that partition and do a fresh install. As soon as your done make your recovery dvds . Back everything up.
     
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    What's ubcd, is that like partition magic? -- edit -- Oh I see it's like Hirens or Techy Tools cool. (downloading)
     
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    Yeah, its easy to use and I have had to do it 2-3 times cause I didnt know about the recovery CDs back in the day. Once you get your recovery DVDs use vlite to edit them and clean up the junk. Slip in Sp2, and updated drivers than reburn them.
     
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    After opening it up with Acronis, you can make a back up but they've really configured it in a way that you can't just make an ISO.

    It would be more trouble than its worth! I'm calling gateway for my CD :[

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    I guess I should read before posting :p

    Yeah, the problem is I can't get the recovery disks to work at all. With any type of media.. I literally have like 500 cds, different types of media on my desk now. All theses CD/DVDs nothing to burn.
     
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    You can always make a partition rename your c: to d: and make the new partition c:. Run ubcd and recover to your new c:. Make your back up DvDs which will work cause I had to do that. I have functioning recovery dvds even after installing w7 over the original setup. Than once you get your dvds you just use vlite.
     
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