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    DV6-6190us recovery disk problem

    Discussion in 'HP' started by hotstocks, Aug 19, 2011.

  1. hotstocks

    hotstocks Notebook Consultant

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    I just got the laptop and went to make recovery disks on
    two DVD+R DL disks I had (instead of 4 regular), but they
    were 2.4x and it took about 2 hours to burn the disks.
    Then the second disk said it had errors at like 78% done.
    Now I have a bad copy and it won't let me make another,
    it says I already made it once. Is there a way to make
    another set of recovery disks? I heard the old HP laptops
    you could by deleting some hidden file or something.
    Any help would be appreciated.
     
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    wittynorseman Notebook Consultant

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    hotstocks Notebook Consultant

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    Just tried that, but none of those files are on my hard drive, I searched
    all of c and d drive with the free comander. Any other ideas? HP must have changed this on the newer laptops, and now they are not making computers anymore!!
     
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    hotstocks Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks, hpenvy, it didn't work at first, but then I found and renamed like two out of three of the Rebeccas and it is burning now :) It is buggy though, it told me that Sony dvd-r was not supported, where it clearly is in the manual. Then it popped up the dvd movie player automatically. I closed that, re-inserted the blank dvd-r three times and it finally worked. What a pain, but I am guessing I could just use Nero and copy the restore dvds a lot easier and faster now (unless they have some crazy protection from HP)