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    Recovery with vista

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mad, Jan 30, 2007.

  1. mad

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    Hello...
    I was wondering if the recovery option from the other partition would still be available with the vista upgrade. I find this option very useful, you know when you start your laptop and it says press X button for recovery, and it reinstall your computer like it was out of factory. Will this still be available with vista? Will they change the reserved partition to have a vista recovery too? Maybe someone read about it?

    thanks!
     
    mad, Jan 30, 2007
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  2. Andrew Baxter

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    I should have checked for that on the tx1000 we had a week ago but it's sent back to HP now. I would assume HP will still include a restore partition for Vista notebooks, but nobody (I don't think) will have taken delivery of an HP notebook with Vista yet -- unless they bought it in the store. Now, if you Upgrade to Vista, when you recover if it was originally a Windows XP notebook you'll just recover back to XP and have to do the Vista upgrade again. Since that option to recover is pre-OS (the Power on Self Test / POST area) then it would still be there as an option, yes.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Jan 30, 2007
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