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    Help me recover Paintshop photo X2

    Discussion in 'HP' started by exercise, Apr 18, 2010.

  1. exercise

    exercise Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all!

    When I bought my DV6-1264CA last summer, I got the "Artist edition" laptop with BUNDLED software in Windows Vista 64. It came installed on the laptop, no disks. It's nice, it's COREL PAINTSHOP PHOTO X2 (about $89 retail value)

    When I got the laptop, I created recovery disks (3DVDs). A few months after, I received the Arvato HP WIN7 upgrade and installed it. I couldn't recover the Paintshop pro.

    Now I installed a CLEAN copy of Win7 Home Premium 64 bits ( to avoid the darn created recovery partition PITA) and used the "upgrade" win7 activation key and it works...I browsed the old recovery disks to try to retrieve PAINTSHOP photo X2 to no avail...

    Is there any ways to do it? The software is interesting and a good value.
     
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    abaddon4180 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Before I did a clean install I just pulled the serial numbers from PSP and VideoStudio and then downloaded them and used my serial numbers to activate. Worked fine for me. You might have to recover and then upgrade.
     
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    exercise Notebook Consultant

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    Ok,

    so basically, unless I re-install VISTA 64 with my recovery disks, recover the serial numbers and then install Win7 again, I can't do it?

    Jeez. I don't feel like doing it!
     
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    abaddon4180 Notebook Virtuoso

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    You could try booting from your recovery discs and going to "Reinstall Programs" when the Recovery Manager starts up, though if you deleted the factory recovery partition I don't think it will work.
     
    abaddon4180, Apr 18, 2010
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