Did you order the OS back CD with your notebook???

Hey All,

I made up my mind, and will purchase the DV2000T C2D. However, I am unsure if I should get eh OS back cd for $19.
Is it just the OS with out any drivers? Or is it exactly the same CD/DVD you are prompted to burn when you first boot your notebook? Also, if it is just the OS that comes with the CD, does that mean I will have to visit HP.copm to download the rest of the Drivers/Utilities?

So should I get it?

Thanks, Gio

 

I bought it for the dv9000t. It was actually 2 dvd's - from the looks of it, it restores it to factory state. All drivers, apps, bloatware, and OS.


Hope that helps,

Zany

 

It costs $19 for 2 DVD recovery. And when my dv6000 came home, I have no CDs included, and when you start the machine for the first time, it said that it has a recovery inside the HDD, and it also said that there's no need to create back up DVDs, but if you want to, it will let you do it. I would say it's not worth for $19.

 

That's true, IF the dvds that you burn are the same as the dvds they give you for $19 (or at least close enough). Does anyone know for sure? I've been trying to make the same decision for the dv2000t I'm looking at.

 

Really need this to be answered to so I can buy this laptop. Thanks

 

I didn't have that option when I ordered my laptop. I just called HP and I got one sent to me for free.

 

The two DVDs are OS Recovery disk and Recovery Software disk. These WILL NOT return your laptop to factory default. Only the recovery partition and the DVDs that you can burn from it will do this job.
The Recovery Software diks contains the big Swsetup folder (I'm not sure for the right spelling of the name) which you have on the HDD when the laptop comes. The OS recovery disk is a full windows OEM version, which will only work on this laptop. It is locked to the BIOS and the hardware of the machine, so no use of trying it on other computers without a valid new key.

 

wait so how do i reformat? I dont' get the traditional blue screen. I get some random HP screen when i load that DVD

 

which DVD?

 

vassil_98

Are you sure about this?? I just went back and looked at my 2 dvd contents. Here's what I found:

• They have a size of disc 1: 7.74gb, disk 2: 755 mb.
• It says on the DVD itself - "Installing this disc will return your computers's hard disk drive to its orignial software configuration."
• There are no individual install or setup files or swsetup folder.

That's 8gig of data! The OS would fit on a CD as you know, and the SW folder is something like 3.5gig. So, what's the other data??

I have not actually used this to restore, so I don't know for sure, but to quote myself - "from the looks of it, it restores it to factory state."

Have you actually done a restore, or are you making an educated guess like I am?

Zany

 

Then you have different DVDs. My DVD contains only the swsetup folder and is no more than 4gb (not sure of the exact size). Maybe that is why HP started charging 10 bucks for the recovery disks...

 

Mine are for a dv9000t. That might explain it.

But I am still disappointed in them. I was hoping to be able to restore individual apps/drivers etc. (Although I think the only app I kept was the Sonic DVD copier).

(HP charged me $19 for mine)

Zany

 

What an irony! I can do exactly this but not restore to factory default.

 

Not sure if I completely understand what you are asking but, if you have the option to purchase the oper sys cd for like $10.00 or $19.00, DO IT!!! You will not regret it.

Maybe HP is giving you the dvd's now for restore purposes instead of putting on a separate hidden partition. When I bought my 8000 I had the option of getting the oper sys cd for $10.00 and I did. I did create the 4 dvd's for system recovery and then deleted the hidden partition to gain back 13GB of space. So yes, do buy it.

Scott

 

I spoke to an HP representative about this when I ordered my laptop. He said the DVDs you can create from the HD are identical to the ones you get for $19, so I ended up not buying the extra discs.