John Richard Smith wrote:
Heck,
Things have sunk low. HP doesn't even give you their own backup disks as an emergency recovery any more.
I mean, not unnaturally the average user , ain't gonna think of creating their own image backups, the moment they first plug the PC in and boot up. So these people are totally stuffed, and totally reliant upon HP's generaosity "if they still have them". Plus the backup is presumeably to HD where it can also get infected/corrupted.
All I can say is that HP used to give you their own backup/recovery dics.
That means your daughter did you a serice is getting your computer virused up early on in the computers life , because you were then quick enough to ask for the missing discs before they don't have them any more.
I'm glad I don't buy there proprietary PC's any more.
John
The nice thing about such PC's is (and it doesn't matter which one) you can always download the propriety hardware drivers from the site.
And the nice thing about Microsoft Software is:There's always a good corporate edition floating around on the P2P networks.
You don't need recovery discs, just an ISO image of the corporate or professional edition (XP Home OEM is a mayor bummer)
Reinstall the os and virusscanner if possible, enable firewall, download patches and update virusscanner and ur done.
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