Restore file? That I know of HP's use a restore partition. It's usually a hidden partition, so it won't show up within windows file manager.
You can see it with gParted or some other partitioning tool. It'll have a weird name with some numbers, and usually takes up about 10Gb's on a Vista system. Be careful with automated installs. You'll want to do "manual partitioning" and unhide the partition so you can add it to the grub menu. Just name it "**WARNING*** WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA" or something to that nature, as this will wipe the other partitions usually. I find it best to just nuke it. For 14 bucks or so you can order a restore disk direct from HP. Actually less, but I needed next day delivery. Then you can run "windows de-crapifier" to get rid of the HP garbage. Good Luck! --Manny BTW, my wife has an HP laptop. I'm Linux ONLY, on my boxes ;-) On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, I'm referring to that partition that HP makes that is the restore > partition. > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:20:18 -0800 > Subject: [LinuxUsers] Saving windows HP restore partition > > As I said, I am reinstalling windows on my friends HP pavilion ze5700 > and I'm going to put Hardy Heron on the Master boot sector. > Yeah, I know how to do that. I figured out a little voodoo myself. > To you guys that may be nothing special. > Yeah, and I will upgrade if the upgrade is already released. > > I want to save the restore file on my friends HP. I know it is really trash, > but just so he won't be unhappy, since he doesn't really know what it is, > I will save it for him. > > but I need to know what it is called. I am running knoppix 4.0 on a live cd, > and I am looking in konqueror. I see a file that looks like a disk with the > center cut > out like a donut, and it has gears like on the outer diameter. there are > actually two. > one is called WDSyncV6.exe, and the other is called WindowsXP-. There is a > third file, > it is called WDSyncV6.zip.... Are these the three files that I want to save? > > Thanks > > ________________________________ > Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live > Click here > ________________________________ > See how Windows(R) connects the people, information, and fun that are part of > your life Click here > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
