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    How long to burn recovery disks?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by littleasian, Jul 7, 2007.

  1. littleasian

    littleasian Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys.

    I just bought a new laptop and im following the instructions on how to do a clean vista install. I'm trying to burn my recovery cd's, but I'm not sure if its working.

    When i went to recovery manager > advanced options > create recovery cd's, it justarted to "create files", but didn't prompt me for a dvd. The computer has been stuck on "50%" on creating files for like the past 10 minutes, and im wondering if its not working or something. I checked task manager and it says its still operational so im not sure..

    Did it take this long to even create the files for you guys?
     
    littleasian, Jul 7, 2007
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  2. littleasian

    littleasian Notebook Consultant

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    just kidding it finished! woohoo
     
    littleasian, Jul 7, 2007
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  3. R4000

    R4000 Notebook Virtuoso

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    It took a long time on mine. It seemed like an hour to gather files, an hour to write them and another hour to verify the written disc (and I used a single DVD+R DL). Very slow process..........
     
    R4000, Jul 7, 2007
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  4. mtor

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    Its a pretty long process about 2-3 hours
     
    mtor, Jul 7, 2007
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  5. kanehi

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    If you think burning the recovery disk is long...wait 'till you reinstall!! :eek:
     
    kanehi, Jul 8, 2007
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    yea it takes for ever, and for me, it wasted 3 dvd's before it finally worked!
     
    Sid1, Jul 8, 2007
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  7. R4000

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    That bad, huh? I guess I'll never use them then if a clean Vista install is so much faster........ :D
     
    R4000, Jul 8, 2007
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