HP Recovery DVD's

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I want to create a set of the HP Recovery DVD's for my XP.
What type of DVD's will I need to use and how many will I need?


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CAS4912 said:
I want to create a set of the HP Recovery DVD's for my XP.
What type of DVD's will I need to use and how many will I need?
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You need DVDs that work with your burner. Refer to your computer manual.
There is no way for us to know how many you will need. The number usually
ranges from 1 DVD to 3 DVDs. When you start the HP recovery disc set
creation utility it will tell you how many you need.

Malke
 
I want to create a set of the HP Recovery DVD's for my XP.                    
           What type of DVD's will I need to use and how manywill I need?    

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If you want HP Recovery media, start here:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bph07143

Depending on your situation and ability to authenticate, HP has been
rumored to send the occasional free set of Recovery CDs - sometimes
with remarkable speed.

If I had my druthers, I'd be working on creating a bootable XP SP3
installation CD first.

So often needed and so often not available...
 
CAS4912 said:
I want to create a set of the HP Recovery DVD's for my XP.
What type of DVD's will I need to use and how many will I need?


Thanks
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I made HP recovery DVD's a couple years ago for my HP Pavilion desktop.
I've never used them and don't plan to, since they will put my computer
back in the same condition it was when shipped -- XP with no service
packs and all the clutter that HP included originally.

A much better idea is to make an image file of your operating system
drive on a removable hard drive and also create a bootable CD. Acronis
True Image makes this fairy simple, but there are other options also
available. You can then recreate your computer setup as it is today
rather than when you first bought the machine.

Bill
 
Bill,
Could you tell me more about how to do this?
Or where I can find out more about it?
Thanks.
CAS4912
 
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

There are two different methods for making a complete disk backup: you
can clone it or you can make an image of it. Cloning has the advantage
that you can just swap in the cloned disk and away you go. Imaging
permits multiple images on a single backup drive (useful for keeping
"generational" backups).

A comprehensive set of directions for using Acronis True Image 9 and 10
(not the current version, but the instructions are basically the same)
has been posted in this group several times over the past couple of
years by Anna. For cloning, however, Anna has more recently recommended
Casper 5 instead of Acronis (http://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/)

Anna's discussion of cloning instead of imaging:
(http://groups.google.com/group/micr...indowsxp.general+author:anna#40820b09fd49b405)
same as above: http://tinyurl.com/m8gt6q

Anna's step by step Acronis directions:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/940c9bcc754800a7?hl=en
Same thing: http://tinyurl.com/l7t3sj
 
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