The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Restore to Factory State Question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by caedeskhan, Jan 25, 2008.

  1. caedeskhan

    caedeskhan Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    16
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I was planning on doing a fresh install on my computer, and was a bit limited in external hard drive storage. I only have 40 GB, which really isn't enough for all my music and games. My model, the HP dv9543 cl, has 320 GB Hard Drive on two separate hard drives (I'm not 100% sure about that)...what I was wondering was if I could move my data to the D drive and do the restore. Basically, is that other hard drive affected by the recovery manager?
     
    caedeskhan, Jan 25, 2008
    #1
  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

    Reputations:
    5,504
    Messages:
    9,788
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    If you use the recovery manager, it will wipe everything and restore it to how you got the computer. You want to clean install with a Vista disc instead so you can leave the other HDD alone.
     
    Lithus, Jan 25, 2008
    #2