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    Recovery discs

    Discussion in 'HP' started by HPJ, Aug 9, 2006.

  1. HPJ

    HPJ Notebook Guru

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    I have a friend who has a hp dv5000 and needs to recover her system. She didn't make those recovery discs she was supposed to, and I'm stumped.

    She's been running a different version of XP for school purposes, and now i don't know how to reinstall the original system without those discs. Is it even possible?


    Thanks in advance... ;)
     
    HPJ, Aug 9, 2006
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  2. chris2pher71

    chris2pher71 Notebook Evangelist

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    you can't order the cd's from hp?
     
    chris2pher71, Aug 9, 2006
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  3. HPJ

    HPJ Notebook Guru

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    I don't know?!? Is that the only way to get it to work?

    Why doesn't HP just ship the discs with the pc...? :confused:
     
    HPJ, Aug 9, 2006
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  4. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah, you will need those recovery discs or atleast need them to get all the necessary drivers for the laptop. Contact HP and they should be able to ship them out to you.

    For the same reason Dell, Acer, Gateway and so many others do not ship those discs but instead provide a restore partition on the HDD and charge extra for it.
     
    miner, Aug 9, 2006
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  5. Derringer

    Derringer Notebook Guru

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    Isn't it possible to get it working if you just have the Windows CD and the SWSETUP stuff on a DVD (QuickPlay probably won't work...)?
     
    Derringer, Aug 9, 2006
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  6. kielby

    kielby Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yup. I didn't even burn recovery disks. I used the $10 Windows XP reinstall CD and the contents of SWSETUP (includes QuickPlay). Everything works.

    I should clarify, I have a dv2000t. No experience with the dv5000t.
     
    kielby, Aug 9, 2006
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  7. fsaneil

    fsaneil Newbie

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    I have the $10 xp pro cd that i had ordered. where the hell do i find SWSETUP?
     
    fsaneil, Aug 9, 2006
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  8. kielby

    kielby Notebook Enthusiast

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    It should be in the root of your c drive: C:\SWSETUP
     
    kielby, Aug 10, 2006
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