Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?
At 11:19 AM 01/07/2008, FORC5 wrote: Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I figure replacing the drive is a good first step. She is a real estate sales person and is frantic. She has these ppl *your computer works* do work on it and I suspect they muffed it up somehow, they had windows defrag in scheduled tasks and I have seen defrag mess up a system if trying to work while it is fragging. Sounds like a bad HD to me. There is no option in windows to create restore disks, is it possible to just burn the data from the restore partition and make it bootable ? Also is it possible to slipstream in updates ? restores to pre sp1 and is a real PITA. got it restored yesterday to sp1, going back this AM to do sp3 and try and get her laptop (vista) to network the printer again which has been a real pain. You probably can burn the partition to DVD, but it would be easier to contact HP and get the recovery CDs for the system. T
Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?
Sp3 will not install unless at least sp1 is loaded. I suspect could goto sp2 direst with no problem. Going to find out today. she picked up a nasty virus and now it will only let me log on in safemode, asks for a pw even though there is NONE and I have even run pw changer on it to verify account active and blank password. I must not be Irish :'( more fun then allowed fp At 06:32 PM 7/1/2008, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: Why not jump from pre-SP1 all the way to SP3? FORC5 wrote: Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I figure replacing the drive is a good first step. She is a real estate sales person and is frantic. She has these ppl *your computer works* do work on it and I suspect they muffed it up somehow, they had windows defrag in scheduled tasks and I have seen defrag mess up a system if trying to work while it is fragging. Question, sorry about the long intro. There is no option in windows to create restore disks, is it possible to just burn the data from the restore partition and make it bootable ? Also is it possible to slipstream in updates ? restores to pre sp1 and is a real PITA. got it restored yesterday to sp1, going back this AM to do sp3 and try and get her laptop (vista) to network the printer again which has been a real pain. Thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Blond Mating Call: Oh, I'm so drunk [giggle].
Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?
sounds like a bad hd to me too, I copied the recovery partition out but that data is light, i386 folder seems to be on C: very strange HP is really not that expensive on recovery cd's figured out this is not the original HD and somehow is why f 10 does not work. ( guess ) She left it connected to the internet last night with no av or firewall, I am now back at square one. :'( Good news is I am building her a new system, one with a second drive for backup. EIther raid ( no like ) or StandbyDisk ( like) fp thanks At 02:04 AM 7/2/2008, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: At 11:19 AM 01/07/2008, FORC5 wrote: Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I figure replacing the drive is a good first step. She is a real estate sales person and is frantic. She has these ppl *your computer works* do work on it and I suspect they muffed it up somehow, they had windows defrag in scheduled tasks and I have seen defrag mess up a system if trying to work while it is fragging. Sounds like a bad HD to me. There is no option in windows to create restore disks, is it possible to just burn the data from the restore partition and make it bootable ? Also is it possible to slipstream in updates ? restores to pre sp1 and is a real PITA. got it restored yesterday to sp1, going back this AM to do sp3 and try and get her laptop (vista) to network the printer again which has been a real pain. You probably can burn the partition to DVD, but it would be easier to contact HP and get the recovery CDs for the system. T -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Blond Mating Call: Oh, I'm so drunk [giggle].
[H] HP recovery partition ?
Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I figure replacing the drive is a good first step. She is a real estate sales person and is frantic. She has these ppl *your computer works* do work on it and I suspect they muffed it up somehow, they had windows defrag in scheduled tasks and I have seen defrag mess up a system if trying to work while it is fragging. Question, sorry about the long intro. There is no option in windows to create restore disks, is it possible to just burn the data from the restore partition and make it bootable ? Also is it possible to slipstream in updates ? restores to pre sp1 and is a real PITA. got it restored yesterday to sp1, going back this AM to do sp3 and try and get her laptop (vista) to network the printer again which has been a real pain. Thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- OBLIGATO -- being forced to practice the piano.
Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?
Why not jump from pre-SP1 all the way to SP3? FORC5 wrote: Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I figure replacing the drive is a good first step. She is a real estate sales person and is frantic. She has these ppl *your computer works* do work on it and I suspect they muffed it up somehow, they had windows defrag in scheduled tasks and I have seen defrag mess up a system if trying to work while it is fragging. Question, sorry about the long intro. There is no option in windows to create restore disks, is it possible to just burn the data from the restore partition and make it bootable ? Also is it possible to slipstream in updates ? restores to pre sp1 and is a real PITA. got it restored yesterday to sp1, going back this AM to do sp3 and try and get her laptop (vista) to network the printer again which has been a real pain. Thanks fp
