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Posted by Barry Watzman on March 20, 2007, 1:55 pm
Please log in for more thread options The recovery discs are only for recovering the operating system. They
do not restore your drive to "as it was", in fact, quite the contrary,
they first TOTALLY DESTROY the drive, then they restore it to the way
that it was the day it left the HP factory.
You needed to have made an image backup.
Ray wrote:
> Actually, I did have a fairly recent complete backup. I only lost about a
> month of newly added files. But HP certainly led me to believe that in
> creating the recovery discs, I was copying everything on my laptop.
>
>> Frankly, if you lost anything, I have no sympathy for you. It was idiotic
>> to do this without an image backup, and an image backup would have
>> restored EVERYTHING to EXACTLY the way it was before you started.
>>
>> Beyond that, I don't think that your story will prove to be typical. I
>> think that most people will get through the upgrade without extreme
>> difficulty. Now as to whether, having made the leap from XP to Vista,
>> they are happy, well, that's another matter, and quite a few may elect to
>> go back to XP. Partly, that will reflect Vista's strengths and
>> weaknesses, and partly it may be the normal aversion to anything that's
>> different.
>>
>>
>> Ray wrote:
>>> I got a new HP Pavilion dv6000us laptop for Christmas with a free upgrade
>>> to Vista premium.
>>>
>>> The other day the upgrade disc came, and it seemed easy enough to
>>> install. As urged, I made one of those "All-in-One" recovery disc sets --
>>> just in case.
>>>
>>> I was no more than three or four steps into the install before things
>>> started to go haywire. I finally got Vista installed, but all my files
>>> were lost. And in addition, it allowed me no more than 1040 by 768 screen
>>> resolution.
>>>
>>> So I used the recovery discs to go back to XP. I could only get a clean
>>> new reinstall -- all my files were lost.
>>>
>>> Just a cautionary note. If you want Vista, buy a machine with it already
>>> installed.
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