System Recovery DVD "64-Bit" Ever Coming ??

Does anybody know if or when System Recovery DVD "64-Bit" versions will ever be made available from HP?

 

If your system came with Vista-64 (for example the dv9000 series with Vista Ultimate is 64-bit), then the system recovery DVDs you can make (or buy) are also 64-bit. On the consumer models, HP is only installing the 64-bit version of Ultimate -- all the other Vista choices are 32-bit only. Kinda sucks, and I haven't heard anything about HP possibly changing in the near future.

 

My dv9000 came with Home Premium and only a 32-bit recovery DVD. I haven't seen any option anywhere where they allow you to purchase a 64-bit recovery DVD for a dv9000, but that is what I'm trying to find.

 

mbmalone -- only if you had customized the original purchase with Vista Ultimate-64 would you have this ability. Hp's OEM versions are an either/or choice at purchase... not "upgrading" later I'm afraid.

That said, if you can get a 64-bit Vista Install DVD, you MIGHT be able to use your key with it... I'm not sure if that will work or not... but it's worth a shot.

 

https://warp2.external.hp.com/driver/dr_country_select.asp?Product=444387-001&lang=en&cc=us

This is the link I get for my dv9225

 

ok, I found the DVD last night and ordered it, but today when my eyes were focusing better I found there are two different part numbers !!! These must have just gotten up on the site. I never saw them before.

Bloody Hell, what did I order?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2100&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3204947&lang=en

443702-001 <<< I ordered this one, but it might have been a mistake
notebook recovery disc set windows vista ultimate 64 bit

444387-001 <<< This one has a more recent part number
notebook recovery disc set windows vista ultimate 64 bit

I called HP, but my simple question must have confused them because they just hungup on me.

 

The 64-bit Home Premium installs fine with the HP 32-bit Home Premium Key. I have already tested that one.

 

That's a good link for the 444387-001, thanks.
I think I ordered the wrong galldang DVD!

thank you butchN

 

I take it that you never activated either of them? I would think that it locks the version of vista to that key since it has to phone home.

I haven't activated my vista yet. If you do manage to do this then I'll have to figure out a way to get a "legit" HP version of Vista ultimate myself but in Europe. I can't seem to find the same pages.

I'm sure this is all a very grey area. Coz you are handing money over for a legit version of vista, but I'm guessing HP didn't mean for this potenial loop-hole to happen.

Nice to know about the 64-bit homePre though!

 

I installed 64-bit Retail Home Premium with my HP Key which was on the bottom of my notebook which came with 32-bit Home Premium. It activated fine! Your key is for both 32-bit & 64-bit. Don't make a bit of difference! They should both activate fine. I think you just can't have 2 computers running either the 32-bit or 2 computers running the 64-bit. Don't try to activate either xx-bit twice, not gonna work. If one absolutely has to for sure be legitimate, make it the 64-bit. Tons of cracks for the 32-bit easily found. 64-bit not so easy to find without doing crazy stuff to your master boot record to get it working or staying awake at night wondering what is going to happen if you don't remember to reset the trial timer every month like a madman.

 

If you used the key on the bottom of your system with a retail version you got lucky and Im sure M$ will fix that later. The keys on the bottom of the machine are all OEM VLAs and usually wont work. I tried using my key with a retail version of XP pro back in the day and it said invalid.

 

just so I understand, you can order these recovery CDs, use your Home Premium 32-bit key and it will install 64-bit Home Premium? I'm really trying to figure out how to get 64-bit Home Premium since HP won't offer that as a preload option.

 

I don't know about a 64-bit recovery dvd. I don't have one, yet.
I got a hold of a 64-bit Vista Installation Disc, not a recovery disk! and installed from scratch with my HP Home Premium key which arrived with my PC w/32-bit OS.

It worked fine ... to install the 64-bit.

Recovery DVD, who knows what you can do with it ??

 

I may have gotten lucky, who knows?
Vista is not XP and I'm only discussing Vista for the moment, since I have a valid key for Vista on this hardware.

 

Your welcome!

I think I see a rep point coming my way!

 

Hmm, so you got ahold of a 64 bit Vista, did a fresh install, used the key that came with your 32 bit Vista from HP, and it worked!? Did you have to call into to Microsoft or anything?

I just did a fresh install of a 32 bit Vista and when I went to use the product key on the bottom of my Lappy, Windows said no no no. I had to call in to activate it.

If I can get ahold of a 64 bit disc, could I do this? What kinda performance increases did you see?

 

lol, You want to improve your bad reputation. They told me your part number was the wrong System Recovery DVD for my DV9000T, but have been unable to explain why? The other part number I came up with was the correct one, but they have also been unable to explain why?

 

You guys are not going to believe this.
After 2 more hours on HP Chat I have uncovered additional information.

I needed the 64-bit Recovery DVD " 444387-001", although I ordered and payed for the 64-bit Recovery DVD "443702-001" which has not yet arrived. Prakash Chandra in an HP Business Forum told me that 443702-001 was the correct disk I needed to order for my notebook, but evidently his information was outdated and following his advice I incorrectly ordered an outdated disc.

This information was very difficult to come by: & ButchN was right!

444387-001 is the revised edition of 443702-001 (where they fixed the problems with the disc!)
... although you can still order 443702-001, if you get your jollies trying to get the poorly made DVD working.

Additionally, there is no XP Home, MCE 2005, or XP Pro x86/x64 Recovery DVD available which will work on a DV9200 series Pavilion Notebook, according to HP support.
You have only the option of installing a retail copy of XP or using a Vista Recovery DVD. I think you have more choices with the DV9000 but I am talking about the DV9200 Series.
You can order it, but it ain't gonna work, or so I'm told.

If it shipped with Vista, no XP System Recovery DVD will ever work, regardless of the bios revision you have installed.
I wonder how they got it locked?

Hey, I just got email confirmation from HP that the correct disk was on the way Fedex next day and it's " 443702-001", again? WTF?
... talk about can't win, for losing.

 

If anyone is interested, I have just received the 64-bit Vista Ultimate System Recovery DVD " 443702-001" that I bought from HP. It's not the 444387-001 that I wanted, but we will see if the HP Tech Chat Tech makes good on sending the correct disk as he promised? I am disregarding the confirmation that another copy of " 443702-001" is in route.

I'll let you know what happens. It takes a couple of hours to install.
If anyone wants to order the proper disc and send me a copy, that would be really nice.

 

The System Recovery DVD boots the notebook just fine and appears to be working, then a message pops up saying it can't be used on this notebook.
I wonder if it's locked on one of these values and if it is possible to change the value until after the recovery has completed?

Product
Version
Serial Number
Universal Unique ID

 

Did you format the harddrive first, so there is no trace of anything?

 

I don't think that's going to make any difference. The Recovery Disc is probably detecting the system serial number in the bios or on the motherboard.

 

I'm going to start a new thread about using the DMI Tattoo utility from HP Techport ( www.techport.info/reflib/tattoo/dnld_tattoos.htm).

It allows you to identify, modify, or clear the HDD DMI. It's just an .exe that you place on a bootable cd and run from the commandline. It modifies the hard drive, not the bios.

The most accurate way to identify a motherboard is from its DMI Product label, so perhaps if I change the one I have to one the Recovery DVD likes, so I can use the 64-bit Ultimate DVD to restore my system. As long as I write down the old one, I could always put it back. It serves no purpose except for the recovery dvd restores. There has to be a reason the utility was on the DVD. Here is a copy of the utility I found. You can find your own Motherboard DMI with this utility from a bootable cd and modify it. I also found an HP instruction manual Here.

Usage: HDD_DMI [/disk n] /clear|display|output|write [/output] [/quiet|verbose]

Options: /disk n use physical drive n [1..9] (default:1)

/clear Clear all potential checksummed sectors and exit
/clear62 Clear all potential checksummed (except sect 63) sectors
/clearsect Clear the checksummed sector and exit
/display Display hard drive DMI information
/write Write the OEM and Manufacturer information to the disk
/output Print output to the file HddDMI.TXT instead of the console
/updateini search the rp and update the mbr.ini with dmi infos
/Quiet Quiet
/Verbose ...guess