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Posted by Joseph Fenn on November 26, 2006, 6:45 pm
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, - Bobb - wrote:
> < renamed and started new thread - since getting off original topic >
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>> The biggest reason that I would recommend against Toshiba is that when
>> I had a virus that the antivirus software was unable to deal with, I
>> wanted to reinstal Windows. I had partitioned the drive and wanted to
>> re-format the OS partition and re-install windows onto only that
>> partition. The thing is that the Toshiba recovery cd only supported
>> reformatting the whole drive (whereby I would have had to back up 40 GB
>> of data). The Windows image on the disk was in some sort of crazy
>> proprietary format, so I couldn't just image the drive myself.
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> Which PC's did use use/like before that shipped with the CD's ?
> Friends used to order Dells and they came with a full CD so you could decide
> to format - I'm not sure if they'd restore both C and D to factory image -
> anyone up on "which companies CD's do what ? ".
>
> Whenever I buy a PC, I go to the website to buy the "OS on CD" for that
> machine so that I can restore to a new drive - or to the original drive. In
> the past , Compaq CDs cost me $10 for the CD's to replace the drive and
> insert a new one - not just work from restore partition - so I'd have both
> options.( It came with a partition restore CD)
>
> But I just bought an HP dv6113 at CompUSA and was told that it comes with no
> media at all and for ME to back up to 2 DVD's. I just went to HP.com -
> cost me $15 but looks like it might just be the restore CD's that will do
> what you mention (format etc) but at least I'll get "whatever they have
> available" to get me back up with Media Edition.
>
https://warp2.external.hp.com/driver/dr_country_select.asp?Product=435337-002&lang=en&cc=us
>
> bobb
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Bob I also had a problem as follows. I used the "WIPE" software which
took out everything, partitions and all also took away the C:
prompts so had to reinstall win98se, then load in winxp/pro
on top of win98se (as the restoral disk could not find the c: drive.
I found out later if you have "Media WIPE" instead of "wipe", it
will just reformat your c: drive only and your ready to load
in your restoral disk (not an upgrade restoral disk).
Joe
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