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    loading recovery discs supplied by Gateway

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by jadeo, Jul 2, 2012.

  1. jadeo

    jadeo Newbie

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    I have a Gateway NV53 that the hard disc failed. bought and Installed a new hard drive and my grandson loaded Windows 7 OS from a loaned cd and everything loaded except for the drivers for the ethernet controller and the network controller.

    Order and recieved recovery discs from Gateway. When the recovery disc #1 loads it begins to start saving temp fioles then I get an error that drive E does not have enough memopry space.


    There is a new hard drive C with 412 GB and a hard drive E ? with 86.9 free space of a total 99.9 MB. The recovery disc recognizes the C drive but it tries to put temp files on the E drive and I get the error.

    How do I get around this and continue recovery?

    Thanks
     
    jadeo, Jul 2, 2012
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    0______0 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I believe the recovery discs just restore it to the state it was when it was shipped. So you'll just have the OS + Gateway's bloatware installed on it after recovery, nothing else. I might be wrong about that though. So essentially using the recovery discs won't do anything that hasn't already been done via the fresh install of W7 on the new hard drive, unless you want all the software Gateway ships with it.

    You can download the drivers for the wifi adapter and ethernet controller from Gateway's website. I believe this is the page for your model: http://support.gateway.com/us/en/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=2374 Just make certain I've linked to the proper one.
     
    0______0, Jul 3, 2012
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    jadeo Newbie

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    That worked !!! Thanks so much !!
     
    jadeo, Jul 4, 2012
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    ethan_hines Newbie

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    Here's the deal with the RECOVERY PARTITION. First a rant: Why should I be the one to have to make recovery CDs for my laptop? Should they not be provided as usually is done with a purchase. Ok now reality, the "Recovery Partition" is a quasi hidden partition that windows 7 uses to restore itself to factory conditions. Problem is if you EVER completely format your HD that Recovery partition is GONZO, so of corse they suggest to make back up DVDs (which btw took hours to make) now what do you suppose happens if like i said you happen to wipe your hd for any reason, and come to find out you lost DVD2 of 3? Well that means you have to call or go online and beg for the Restore CD to be shipped to you at your expense, look it was bad enough I found out the NV53 does not have Stereo mix (yikes!). SO my friends if you have DVD 2 of 3 handy and can upload it to a server I would be very very grateful and I will do as much as I possibly can to fix your problems, cause god knows Gateway is only in it for the money eh? (yup Canadian) :hi2:
     
    ethan_hines, Jan 6, 2013
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