My son sent me his Compaq laptop w/Vista installed and it wouldn't boot at all. Finally got it restored by using F11 and it is booting up again. They sent me 3 recovery disks, however none of them are labeled, so, I was hoping someone could help me get them labeled correctly because I am always the one in the family everyone calls when there are computer problems. *When I explore the disks there are folders as follows:* One disk has folder called: Preload Next disk has folders called: Boot and preload Third disk has folders called: Preload and tools. Anyone know how these would be labeled correctly??
I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the house. Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks will include all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do all 20 to get recovery disks jsut for Vista?
Gateway sent me 3 disks... 2 are recovery. what is the 3rd one for? (should I ever need to run startup repair, which disk will I use (#1) rather than reinstall the entire OS.
I had a dual boot, vistaubuntu, I lost ubuntu which had grub, now vista wont boot, and the geniuses at Toshiba did not send any boot or recovery disks, is there a disk or how do I recover vista?
I know (I think) what system restore points are. Happily I have never had to use them. I cannot seem to be able to create recovery disks (ie cd-roms) as I could on my last system, (or DOS-Startup disks) for use in a complete system crash?
I just bought a new HP Pavilion pc that came preloaded with Vista Home Premium 64bit. It also came loaded with a bunch of crap so I just want to blow it away and install a clean Vista OS. Unfortunately, HP only includes a recovery partition from wich you build reccovery disks. I called HP support and they informed me that the only way to get OS disks is to purchase the OS from Microsoft. I argued that I had already done so by purchasing the pc with a licensed copy of Vista preloaded.
They said it was an OEM version which can only be installed with the recovery disks and that I should just uninstall the unwanted programs. I have the Windows Vista product key sticker on the side of the pc so can someone tell me if I purchase a media only version of Vista can I activate it with the OEM product key that came with the pc? And if anyone has any other ideas I'm all ears.
My two vista recovery disks. Can i make "ISO" images out of these using "imgburn" i really just thought it would be a good idea to have the two recovery disks that i have as "ISO" images, so i can have these on my other computer as a backup copies...
I have been learning about the "imgburn" program, and thought it would be a good idea to get some practice on creating some ISO images. So if this is fine and ok to do, what would normally happen when i inserted the first disk, would i just cancel out anything that pops up. Windows vista home premium
The tech at HP told me that I need to use the exact same hard drive (Fujitsu 120G) that came with the notebook originally to use the recovery disks to reinstall Vista. Is that true? I wanted to use a Western Digital 160G HD instead.
I want to reinstall Vista using the provided recovery disks using my laptop, and then set up 7 as a dual boot. You know, have Vista for those games, and have 7 for everything else.
I have an Asus G51VX-RX05, which also is referred to as simply G51VX (Best Buy). Yes, I've heard it a million times, don't buy a computer at best buy. I know, I know. I won't do it again, I promise. So I want to use the provided recovery discs from my laptop to reinstall Vista. When I was installing 7 over Vista, I followed this: Clean Install Windows 7 - How to Perform a Clean Installation of Windows 7 - Part 1 of 3...........
I have a computer from HP, Hp Pavilion 3200n slimline, running vista 32, 4 gb Ram, Athlon 64X2, I have my C: drive partitioned to accomidate for the making of the recovery disks. Can I remove the D: to make my C: drive bigger?
my pc wouldnt boot before so i clicked repair computer then after ten minutes it tries to use sytsem restore but it still go any further than the windows loading bar so i try to boot in safe mode but when i turn it on again it says "windows failed to start" and asking to insert your windows insallation cd in but most vista comps dont come with a installation cd so i try using my acer recovery disks but they dont work so what do i do ??? oh yes vista home premium 32 bit
Dell recovery Partition D with factory image.wim copied in drive I external hard drive. How can i restore my laptop to factory settings from the factory image in drive I (external hard drive) instead of drive D (internal Hard Drive)
how do you make a recovery disk for vista home premium 32 bit without wiping all hdd's clean just install it on one hdd because ive got my operating system on one hard drive and my media on another what i dont want to lose, if i have to reinstall again. ive got backup disks which wiped both hdds last time i reinstalled
I am having to rebuild my computer. On the old system, I was running Vista Home Premium. Now, I am using Vista Ultimate. As everything came crashing down on my old system, I was unable to make backups of everything. However, there is a bright side...the new system is up and running, and I can access what used to be my old 'C' drive. Here's the situation that I need help with: I was (and will be) using Office Outlook 2007 as my email client. I am trying to figure out how to recover the emails that I had on the old system. As I did not get to make a backup before the crash.
I have hp laptop with Vista Home Premium (OEM) installed. I've made Recovery Disks using the Recover Manager. I wish to have a clean install of Vista instead of using the Recovery Disks. I've read previous threads but I have to say I am only getting more confused.
- Can I perform clean install of my Vista OEM? - Can I use any copy of Vista OEM cd and use the Product Key sticked behind my laptop?.........
When I R-click on my C:drive in Computer, I see an option labeled "Special Permissions", but it doesn't seem to be available. What are Special Permissions, and if they're important for anything, how do I enable them? Logging on as Administrator produces the same effect. Speaking as a user of Windows since its first release, I find Vista with its UAC, Permissions, and the need to repeatedly confirm every action I tak to be frustrating as hell.
I am currently trying to install Windows Vista on my computer, but an error keeps the installation from being a success. It tells me of an error labeled "0x8007045D". Currently, There is no working OS installed into the computer and my XP disk won't work also. Is there any way to fix this?
I have a Vista machine and an XP Pro machine. The Vista has 2 NICs, NIC 1 connected to the cable moden and NIC 2 connected to XP using a crossover cable. Vista is set for ICS. Internet works fine on both machines, always. XP can see and access Vista's shared folders, always. Vista cannot see XP. NIC 2 comes up "unidentified network" and is set "public". I change NIC 2 to "private", then after a brief delay XP becomes visible and accessible. NIC 2 still labeled "unidentified network". On reboot NIC 2 reverts to "public".
A customer asked if he created the recovery disc would he still have a complete working recovery partition. He is in fear of creating the disc then losing them.
4JHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> A customer asked if he created the recovery disc would he still have a complete working recovery partition. He is in fear of creating the disc then losing them.
I want to create a recovery partition on my windows Vista laptop. Pretty much i want to be pompted when the pc boots to hit f10 and have a count down of 10 seconds. I know this would be done through boot.ini however i have no idea how to do so. Also id make a seperate partition on my hd of ten gigs just for the backup image.
I have a Toshiba laptop and it has come with a single 120Gb hard disk. However it is partitioned into a C drive and an E drive split 50:50. I don't really need to have two seperate areas in this way and would like to combine them together to have a single logical drive on the laptop. Can I do this from within Windows Vista that is installed on the laptop?
I have a Toshiba A100 laptop with vista home premium installed on it. I am trying to burn DVD disks on my laptop, and when i insert a disk it says i don't have a disk in the drive and i should input one. I tried several DVD disks, including a rewritable one. I looked at a similar Toshiba laptop, and it does write DVD disks.
I don't know how long i've had this prob since, i use this option very rarely. Is there a way to fix the DVD drive without replacing it? and keeping reinstalling windows as last option ? (I'm not sure reinstalling will help). The drive does read DVD disks that have something on them. The drive does burn CD type disks
I purchased Vista Home Premium in Jan 08. Since then I have been unable to open files previously stored on Cds that were saved when I had Windows XP as my program?
I'm using the Home Premium version of Vista and my disk defrag just keeps analyzing my disks and never defrags them. Its worked before but now this has started to happen.
I have just installed Vista Ultimate 64 Bit (on my 500 GB Seagate hard disk, the main hard disk). Then, I added 2 more hard disks (a 1 TB Hitachi and another 500 GB Seagate), so now I have 3 SATA hard disks installed. However, Vista cannot start. Sometimes, it stuck on the boot screen (the one with the scrolling green bar), sometimes it just show black blank screen. I then tried to disconnect, completely, the 2 hard disks I just installed. Vista can boot properly, I can access my data from both hard disks without problem.
When only the 1 TB Hitachi and the main hard disk are connected, Vista can boot properly and I can access my data from both hard disks without problem. When only the other 500 GB Seagate and the main hard disk are connected, Vista can boot properly, I can access my data from both hard disks without problem. However, if I connect the 3 hard disks at the same time, vista doesn't want to boot. I already installed the SATA controller driver from the CD that comes with the motherboard.
My system spec: - Motherboard: Asus Striker Extreme - Processor: Intel Core2Duo Dual Core 2.4 Ghz - RAM: 4 GB (4x1 GB) DDR2 - Graphic Card: Nvidia 8800GTS, from ASUS - 2 DVD Writers (LG and Sony), both IDE - 1 Floppy Disk Drive
Recently I bought a new computer that has Works 9 on it. I got no installation disks with it. If my machine crashes I would have no way to install it again. Is there a way I can make installation disks for myself?
I've recently been struck down with a trojan. I restored my computer to factory defaults, thinking this would do the trick. It did. However, I'm at Ohio State, and they're policy is that you have to totally reformat your hard drive before you'll be able to use the wireless internet. The problem is, i have an HP HDX16, and HP does not ship with Vista install disks, they have a hidden partition. I tried doing a system restore 3 times, and it didnt work. I backed dup the system defaults to an external hard drive,
My question is, how do i format my hard drive without the Vista Disks?
I was using Auslogics Disk Defrag, and I was told about "junk files" in the disks that I should scan and remove. When I click the link , it was trying to sell me the software. I'm not ready to buy yet. Any way to remove the junk files without spending money ? It does not identify the junk files and the locations, so I don't know how to look them up.
