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Windows Vista Create new recovery discs for HP notebook

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by peter333, 2009/12/08.

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    peter333

    peter333 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Bought an HP Pavilion dv9260nr notebook in December 2007 through eBay, Australia. It is a USA model which was repaired under extended warranty locally in Australia. Due to new hardware of a motherboard, RAM & Wireless network card, my originally created Factory Recovery Disks come up with an error message of "This PC is not supported by the system recovery disks. You will not be able to continue to recover this system with these disc ". HP Australia & USA have been totally unhelpful (sorry but true) in forwarding a new set of disks. My OS is MS Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit for which I have a licence sticker on the notebook. I don't just want the OS but all of the factory software. Is there a way to tweak my recovery disks so they work? I don't have a recovery partition on my hard drive still, not that would probably have mattered. Thank you
     
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    No - you won't be able to tweak your original Recovery Disks - as you post they are for a different set of hardware.

    I suggest you image the drive to DVD or external USB drive using something like Acronis True Image Home. This will act as a backup too if you keep the image current by making incremental backups on a regular basis.
     
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    I don't have the original factory installation on the hard drive but thank you anyway. The best I can do is a fresh install, using the same licence number on the notebook plus all the proprietry HP drivers. However, can the image be installed without installing ATI Home? Thank you.
     
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    You will need to install Acronis to make the image and follow the wizard to create a boot CD which contains a full version of Acronis. To recover a system you boot from the Acronis boot CD - you do not need Acronis on the hard drive at this stage.
     
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