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    DV1000t has arrived, but w/o OS and App discs!

    Discussion in 'HP' started by kk4uga, Feb 27, 2006.

  1. kk4uga

    kk4uga Notebook Guru

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    Just received my DV1000t today. I haven't used it much yet. Got the T2300 (1.66 GHz) Core Duo, 80 GB hard drive and 256 MB Ram (I have 2 GB coming from Newegg on Wednesday).

    HP seems to have migrated to the "Recovery Partition" for this new model.
    This angers me, as I wanted the discs to install a clean copy of Windows.

    This thing is loaded down with junk software, and the Norton suite.
    The manual says I can create a set of recovery discs. Does anyone know if this will create a Windows CD that is free of the bloatware? If not, will HP send me a disc if I contact them? Thanks.
     
    kk4uga, Feb 27, 2006
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    fill2k Notebook Consultant

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    try creating the recovery disc... blank discs are so cheap now.

    It's also a good idea to create one, since if there's any problem in the future, tech-support will most likely ask you to restore it first factory OS/apps... and see if the problem persists.
     
    fill2k, Feb 27, 2006
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    Do you have to burn the image into a cd or dvd?
     
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    13 CD's (no DVD writer)
     
    kk4uga, Feb 27, 2006
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    fill2k Notebook Consultant

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    still worth it to burn. If something happens to your harddrive, then you have a backup on CDs.
     
    fill2k, Feb 27, 2006
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    Let us know what you think of this notebook. I've had my eye on it since it was announced.
     
    Bossy573, Feb 27, 2006
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    zenzei, Feb 28, 2006
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    I assume that, if one has a DVD burner, one can burn it onto two DVD's then, instead of 13 CD's - correct?
     
    JiantBrane, Feb 28, 2006
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    hey KK4uga, i was wondering if you do any gaming? i'm seriously considering the v2000t and it has pretty much everything i want in the right form factor, but i do play a decent amount of warcraft III. i was wondering if you do any gaming on it and how it peforms? thanks a lot
     
    bchung, Feb 28, 2006
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    I won't do any gaming on it other than what came included (Zuma, bejeweled, etc.).
     
    kk4uga, Feb 28, 2006
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    I bought 2 GB of Corsair Value Select DDR2 PC4200 (533 mhz) and they work great!

    The memory that came with the DV1000t is Hynix PC4200.
     
    kk4uga, Feb 28, 2006
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