Failed SP1 install ruined OS.

[Kevin LaBerge]

Self explanatory. So bad I couldn't even boot in safe mode, or use the ACER
recovery feature. It also destroyed every restore point, so no going back.
Now I have no OS on my laptop and have to pay for a "Recovery disk" because
Microsuck is too gutless to actually allow companies (like ACER) to send a
physical Vista install disk with their computers. Needless to say I'm a
little steamed.

 

[dev]

/Kevin LaBerge/ said:

Self explanatory. So bad I couldn't even boot in safe mode, or use the ACER
recovery feature. It also destroyed every restore point, so no going back.
Now I have no OS on my laptop and have to pay for a "Recovery disk" because
Microsuck is too gutless to actually allow companies (like ACER) to send a
physical Vista install disk with their computers. Needless to say I'm a
little steamed.

To avoid future crises, consider imaging software that backs up the
entire partition - files, settings, programs, the entire operating
system. Even if the drive fails, or windows won't boot, you can back up
and running in minutes in most cases.

Perhaps the best $50 software expense you will ever make. There are
several good utilities for this. One...
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

 

[Michael A. Covington]

Sounds like you screwed up, Kevin. Care to explain exactly what you did,
step by step? No other way to help you out if you don't provide pertinent
info.

It may not be him. Maybe the hardware suffered a power interruption or
something during the Vista SP1 install.

 

[Gil Baron]

Self

Now you know why you should create rcovery disk before you do anything else.
I never saw a system without that function. Everyone ought to buy Norton Ghost and make regular images too.

 

[Owner]

He should have made a recovery disc set immediately after getting his Acer.
That would have been possible before the crash.

 

[David Morgan \(MAMS\)]

He should have made a recovery disc set immediately after getting his Acer.
That would have been possible before the crash.

Any decent mfgr should provide a Windows DVD

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Self explanatory. So bad I couldn't even boot in safe mode, or use the
ACER recovery feature. It also destroyed every restore point, so no going
back. Now I have no OS on my laptop and have to pay for a "Recovery disk"
because Microsuck is too gutless to actually allow companies (like ACER)
to send a physical Vista install disk with their computers. Needless to
say I'm a little steamed.

The manufacturer/vendor determines if physical recovery media is supplied at
the point of sale, not Microsoft.

--
Mike Hall - MVP
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[Charles W Davis]

Any decent mfgr should provide a Windows DVD

David, I don't know of any manufacturer that provides a Windows DVD for
Vista.

 

[Charles W Davis]

It's got nothing to do with Microsoft.
One should never purchase a machine that does not have ...at the very
least...
a recovery CD.

Anyway once you get the recovery CD be sure to keep your data backed up
as recovery CD's usually delete all exisiting data

Philo,

The manuafacturers place a Recovery file in a Partition on the hard drive
for the customer to create the DVDs. It saves them a few cents each disk. In
either case, my experience with house calls for our computer club, the DVDs
are never available; lost in the move, lost in the pile of crap in the room,
threw them out with the packaging (claim to never have seen them).
Nevertheless, they don't exist.

 

[Dave R.]

David, I don't know of any manufacturer that provides a Windows DVD
for Vista.

Dell does, at least with the Optiplex line.

Regards,

Dave

 

[jef]

I received a recovery disk from Dell with my Inspiron 1720 Laptop. Jef

 

[David Morgan \(MAMS\)]

To the best of my knowledge, Dell, Sony, and Toshiba do.

 

[Dave R.]

To the best of my knowledge, Dell, Sony, and Toshiba do.

Not that it matters much, but the quote you attribute to me was actually
from Charles W Davis. My reply to this statement was that Dell does in
fact include a Windows Vista DVD with (at least) the Optiplex line of
systems.

Regards,

Dave