Quickplay issue after clean xp installation

hi all,

i'm getting great help from this forum. here is one more issue after installing clean windows xp, quickplay doesnt run via media buttons (i'm talking about running quickplay without booting windows) although recovery parition is there untouched and i'v installed quickplay in windowsxp as well. kindly tell me wat else shuld i do

regards
faraz

 

Is it Quickplay 1.x or 2.x? Do you have QLB re-installed? If it is 2.x, it is quite complicated to have it re-installed.

 

have you installed the contents of both SwSetup\QPW AND SwSetup\HPQPDP folders? you should get SwSetup\QLB as well.

 

I too am attempting to fix the QuickPlay partition after a reformat. I installed SwSetup\QPW and when I try to install SwSetup\HPQPDP, I get this error:

Anyone have any ideas on this?

 

QuickPlay uses a special partition but not the recovery partition. I hope you haven't deleted it during reinstall.
Try downloading the driver from HP's page. My SwSetup folder had some problems with the bluetooth drivers, for example.

 

It did get messed up somehow..the partition that is. It surely can't be unrecoverable. HP starts with a blank hard disk too.

Which driver would you recommend to get the partition back to the exact format it needs to be in?

 

I'm not sure how you can create the linux patition for the QuickPlay feature. I myself do not have QP and cannot help a great deal without something to experiment on.
Does the recovery partition on drive D contain an image of the whole HDD or only of C?

 

Hmm.. the QuickPlay partition was Linux? I thought it was NTFS. Man, HP sure doesn't make it easy to fix this stuff..

 

Yup, I got the same error when I tried to install it. No matter how I formatted the 1.00GB QP partition. I might as well ditch QP 2, it takes some time to start up. The computer has to first boot up and then wait for the Windows XP splash screen and then enter into QP. I feel it takes as much time as just booting into Windows XP.

EDIT: The QP partition is NTFS. I have since used the recovery DVD's to restore to factory state and computer management console reveals the 1GB partition as being unknown but formatted to NTFS.

 

I remember discussions here that QP is actually a kind of Linux. Maybe it only refers to QP 1, I don't know. I can dig up the threads if someone's interested

In any case, it's good the HDD image reverts the laptop to factory default.

 

The recovery DVD was my saviour. I will try reinstallation later tonight and try to get QP working again. Planning to try out Ubuntu and Vista....so will definately try it again.

 

I've got everything on my laptop working now, after reformatting.. except the QuickPlay button (when the computer is off). I could probably get QuickPlay back if I ran those 4 recovery DVDs I burned.. but man, that takes FOREVER. After nearly 10 mins, it was only at 3 or 4% complete.

If anyone knows how to get that QuickPlay partition repaired/installed, please let us know!

 

2147418113 This error can be from the fact that Windows recognized the partition, and therefore Quickplay cant install it as a hidden partition.

Hopefully you didnt delete teh 1024mb partition during any reformat.

IN XP simply, open up Administrative Tools from the Control Panel.
Go to Computer Management. Select Disc Management.

You should see your 1 GB of free space as its own drive. Right Click on it and go to delete partition. Leave the space unallocated and then Launch Quickplay. It will do the rest.