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    Burned recovery disc wrongly, a little help?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by zijin_cheng, Jan 5, 2009.

  1. zijin_cheng

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    Hi, i burned my recovery disc from hp laptop wrongly, i have a dv5-1157ca. i have a vista business oem and i went to hp and downloaded all the drivers they had for the 1157ca. would my laptop work as normal?
     
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    Many (most) times not ALL of the HP drivers are on the driver download page for a particular laptop. They can usually be found but you may have to ask for help on the forum locating a particular driver (such as the webcam driver). After your drivers install, take a look in Device Manager if there are any driver errors and go from there.

    If you haven't all ready installed the VB OEM software, save the c:\swsetup folder to DVD currently on your HD. That folder contains ALL the drivers for your particular notebook.
     
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    after saving all the files in c:\swsetup, after installing xp what do i do? i have vista home premium 64
     
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    do i just copy over the whole folder?
     
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    if i reinstall vista from a recovery disc do i hvae to activate it?
     
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    You never mentioned installing XP in your original post. The c:\swsetup folders contain the drivers for Vista if your machine shipped with Vista. If you want to install XP on a machine that shipped with Vista visit one of the DV5 threads dedicated to that activity, many people have been successful downgrading to XP, use their experiences. You will find many, if not all, of your questions answered there.

    NO! I am assuming that this is a HP recovery disc that you made from the recovery disc procedure on your notebook or purchased from HP.
     
    deeastman, Jan 6, 2009
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