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    will recovery partition work after reinstallation?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by thinkwierd, Jan 29, 2007.

  1. thinkwierd

    thinkwierd Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't have DVD writables at hand now and it is strange that the recovery program does not allow me create recovery disks using rewritables.

    My question is: if I just go ahead and reformat the first partition (without touching recovery partition and quickplay), will the recovery function keep to work after I install a new XP?
     
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  2. Strawbs

    Strawbs Notebook Guru

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    what do you mean "new" xp? a different version to the one you're using now or the same version, but freshly installed?

    recovery should work - but it'll revert whatever you install back to what is factory loaded, so why not skip the new install and just do a recovery?
     
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    TheMan Notebook Consultant

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    Call up HP and tell them that you can't get on your computer, and you get a blue screen error at start up .. if you're still covered by the 1 year warranty, they'll send you the disks for free.
     
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    I forgot to add that I used write-once dvd's to create my recovery set.
     
    Strawbs, Jan 29, 2007
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