Fresh Install DV4T Help

I just did a fresh install of Vista Home Premium 64 Bit following Orev's guide. I backed up the SWSetup folder and everything went fine except a couple of things:

1.) Quickplay. I don't have the QPW & HPQPDP folders in the SWSetup folder. Does quickplay still come with DV4T's or is HP using something new? Do I need to install some other program or driver from SWSetup to get quickplay to work? Should I not even worry about it and just another player?

2.) Recovery Partition. I followed a link in another post, here at NBR, to HP's site telling me how to add quickplay from the recovery partition of the hdd. I can see the recovery partition but when I try to access it, it says it's empty. Is it possible to access it through explorer or do I have to boot from it? When I did the fresh install, I just reformated partition 1, the one with vista on it already and did nothing to the recovery partition. Is this correct?

3.) Bluetooth. After I installed bluetooth and only after the internet connection is established, the icon pops up on the system tray even though I disabled it in the startup menu and told it in the bluetooth program itself not to display the icon. Also, when the computer first boots up, it tells me bluetooth couldn't connect because of a .dll file that is missing?

4.) Scroll Slider on Touchpad. I disabled alot of things in the startup menu and now the scroll slider doesn't work. Obviously it's because of the things I disabled, but why would disabling it from startup cause it not to work? The touchpad still works fine. I followed some things in this thread and everything here. Could any of this affect the scroll slider?

5.) Recovery Manager. What happened to the recovery manager that came factory installed? Is that in the SWSetup folder?

6.) Drivers. Should I follow this thread and update all the drivers since they are all new compared to what is in my SWSetup folder?

Sorry this is so long, but I could use a little help.
Thanks

 

Anyone have any ideas?

 

1) Yes, QuickPlay is still used in dv-series...here's a link to the latest one http://docs.cyberlink.com/cinema/hp/quickplay/QP_361_upgrade/hp/enu/item3.jsp?Region=N

2) The recovery partition becomes useless when you do a clean install, I believe. I would have just gotten rid of it to begin with since you'll be doing a clean install for every Vista install from now on I assume.

3) Do not disable it from the start menu, otherwise, it would not start up right.

4) Do not disable this as well...otherwise, it won't work properly...just uncheck the "show on taskbar" thing.

5) Like I said, it somehow becomes disabled. You should have made a copy of the SWsetup from your C: drive before you did a clean install...but all the drivers are available online anyway.

6) YES! You should look at the HP support site and download the latest drivers.

You might as well do a clean install again and get rid of that recovery partition since it's not working anymore.

Here are the Vista 32-bit drivers specifically for your dv4t on the HP website: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3745839

 

Does anyone know if the recovery partition is unusable after a clean install?

Sendmarksmail, thanks for the help.

 

KMB...quick question to which I think I know the answer...did you do a fresh install to ensure maximum performance, that is to absolutely annihilate all bloatware etc?

 

Kraven, I did a fresh install to get rid of all the bloatware. When I did the fresh install, windows asked if I wanted to reformat one or both partitions(the original vista partition and the recovery partition) so I just reformatted the original vista partition and left the recovery partition alone.

Do you know if you can access the recovery partition through windows explorer or is the only way I can use it is to restore from it?

Thanks

 

I believe you will have to set the computer to boot from the recovery partition under Computer management by setting that partition active. But before you that make sure you have your data backed before you do so. Better option would be to use the restore DVD you should have made and get rid of the partition.