On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Steve at Verizon <[email protected]>wrote:
> Don't know how long ago she got the HP, but I just purchased one and there > is an HP provided utility to burn a 3 DVD set which will restore the machine > to its factory settings; i.e. the OS and the other junkware programs. I know > Lenovo does the same thing; no disks with the purchased machine, but a > utility to create the reinstall disks. > > See if you can find such a utility on your HP. > Link to HP's file on how to create backup disks- < http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=bph08097> The part on how to create recovery disks is about 1/4 of the way down the page. I would be mildly worried that the data on the hard drive was corrupted by now. I would want to create the recovery disks ASAP just in case. Once you create the disks you could install this to a new hard drive and recover what was left on the old one at your leisure. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
