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    Help please i messed up my clean reinstall

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Derius, Jul 23, 2010.

  1. Derius

    Derius Newbie

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    I tried to follow the clean reinstall guide but forgot to back up sw files.

    How do i get the drivers back onto my laptop and/or how do i get my recovery disk to work?
     
    Derius, Jul 23, 2010
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  2. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    You can go to hp's site and download the same/ newer drivers for your model.... Or if you have a model thats it is the driver thread you can download from there
     
    Texanman, Jul 23, 2010
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  3. Derius

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    I downloaded some of the drivers from the HP website but my cd drive doesn't seem to be working. I can't get it to run any of my disk.
     
    Derius, Jul 23, 2010
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    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    the cd drive should work no matter what without any driver. Is there a yellow triangle on the cd drive in device manger?
     
    Texanman, Jul 23, 2010
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  5. Derius

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    no there isn't any yellow triangle.
    but it won't read my recovery DVD at all or any DVD for that matter.
     
    Derius, Jul 23, 2010
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  6. moviemarketing

    moviemarketing Milk Drinker

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    what model laptop do you have?
     
    moviemarketing, Jul 23, 2010
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  7. Derius

    Derius Newbie

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    dv6tse i5 450, 5650 switchable ,6gb ram, 500gb hdd
     
    Derius, Jul 23, 2010
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    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    i'm pretty sure you can't "read the recovery disc" - you need to boot it up before you start windows - did you try using the drive with another disc?
     
    timtravel42, Jul 23, 2010
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  9. Derius

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    i restarted the computer and it still didn't work, also the windows install disk didn't work either
     
    Derius, Jul 23, 2010
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  10. Mike415

    Mike415 Notebook Evangelist

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    You need to boot from the CD probably. I dont know what button it is but at BIOS you should be able to get to a selection for the boot media.
     
    Mike415, Jul 23, 2010
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    fouund it thank you guys so much
     
    Derius, Jul 23, 2010
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  12. kanehi

    kanehi Notebook Deity

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    Unless you deleted the recovery partition you can usually press f11 during bootup.
     
    kanehi, Sep 10, 2010
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