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    Orange County Request *HELP*

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jmai22, Aug 28, 2006.

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    jmai22 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Everyone, I have a really odd request. Basically I'll be going out of town this Wednesday and I won't be able to get the recovery CD in time. I want to set up my computer with the new hard drive and everything before i leave for this business trip. I was hoping someone in the Orange County, CA area if they can burn me a copy or let me borrow their Window Media Center recovery CD(the 10 Dollar one from HP) it would be greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
     
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    JM Mr. Misanthrope NBR Reviewer

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    What model notebook do you have?

    If it's one of the new ones; dv2000, dv8000, etc, you should be able to just burn your own...
     
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    jmai22 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, the model i have is the DV8000t. The whole reason why i don't want to burn my own is because i'm trying to avoid all the bloatware. Thank you.
     
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    JM Mr. Misanthrope NBR Reviewer

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    Ah, understood.

    ;)

    Good luck getting your hands on the disks you need.

    :)
     
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    jmai22 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks. If worse comes to worse I can just wait until Friday when everything is suppose to come in. I'm just overly excited to get my laptop back to how i like it. I just went through 3 months without a laptop because of HP. But they replaced it free of charge more than i expected. Here's what i started with.

    HP ZD7000CTo
    3.2Ghz with HT
    256MB ram
    40 GIG HD
    128MB video card
    wireless
    cd burner
    brightview

    My new system is
    DV8000T
    2.16Ghz Duo Core
    2 Gigz Ram
    256MB video
    60 gig 7200RPM main hard drive(just ordered waiting to come in)
    100 gig 7200RPM secondary Hard drive
    wireless + bluetooth
    DVD burner + lightscribe.
    UltraBrightview

    as you can imagine i got the top of everything and am just excited to install all software and set everything up once i get a recovery disc so i can format and start over.
     
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