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    Samsung R780 Need Clean Boot

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by True_Sultan, Jun 30, 2011.

  1. True_Sultan

    True_Sultan Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey Hey Hey,

    Guess who's back :p

    LOL Anyway how have you guys been?

    I have had the Samsung R780 for like a year right now, no complains, ran every game i wanted to play. It did handle 3d modelling and stuff fine, matlab ran well and all. but recently it has been slowing down, got a blue screen once or twice. It usually slows down when i re-open the screen after i keep it close for a long time. Start-up is also slow. I also noticed my C drive becoming clutter with unwanted programs that take alot of time to uninstall. So I was wondering where I can get a Windows 7 OEM disc for my samsung?

    My Samsung Recovery 4 Solution program cannot load either and I see no restore partition either, so is there I a way i can do a clean install?
     
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    davidfor Notebook Consultant

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    The manual says to press F4 when booting to start the recovery. But, if the recovery partition isn't there, that won't work.

    Otherwise, http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...-7-download-links-just-like-vista-before.html is probably the thread you want to read.
     
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    True_Sultan Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks man, that really helps, i got the iso burned and all, but before i do the install, is there away where I can get back some of the preinstalled software's that came with the laptop? Does samsung have any software recovery disc?
     
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    davidfor Notebook Consultant

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    As far as I can tell, all of the Samsung utilities are on the Samsung support site for the R780. I don't have my R780 with me to compare. The trial versions of things like Office and whatever anti-virus Samsung install won't be but you can find copies of these if you are buying the license. I can't remember if there is anything else installed that you might want.

    Samsung don't supply a recovery disc. There is a utility to burn one. It should be on the desktop, but there are instructions in the user guide. Again, the user guide should be on the desktop.
     
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