using the xp recovery disk

[Guest]

hello, i recently did a system restore on my hp pc using windows xp sp 2....i
had installed IE7 and it was buggy. i rolled back the pc to before i
installed IE7 and the error states that the windows/system32/config/system
file is missing or corrupt. i could not use the recovery part of the hard
disk so i had to order the recovery disks for my hp from an outside
vendor......before i use them i wanted to know if i had to remove any of the
other hardware that i installed on the pc, such as a video card and sound
card? i have a feeling that i will not be able to do the partial restore but
have to do full restore that wipes out the hard drive info. also along those
same lines, if i have a wireless router that i installed on the pc that needs
to be recovered, do i have to re-install that program and all of the others?

thanks for all your assitance!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You must return your HP computer to its original factory
hardware configuration or the HP recovery process will not
work.

Please see the following HP article:

Performing an HP System Recovery in Windows XP:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...docname=bph07145&product=71013&dlc=en&lang=en

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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hello, i recently did a system restore on my hp pc using windows xp sp 2....i
had installed IE7 and it was buggy. i rolled back the pc to before i
installed IE7 and the error states that the windows/system32/config/system
file is missing or corrupt. i could not use the recovery part of the hard
disk so i had to order the recovery disks for my hp from an outside
vendor......before i use them i wanted to know if i had to remove any of the
other hardware that i installed on the pc, such as a video card and sound
card? i have a feeling that i will not be able to do the partial restore but
have to do full restore that wipes out the hard drive info. also along those
same lines, if i have a wireless router that i installed on the pc that needs
to be recovered, do i have to re-install that program and all of the others?

thanks for all your assitance!

 

[Len B]

Carey,
I'm just curious about this. At present there are no problems.

New notebook with XPPro pre-installed. Before anything else, I used
partitioning software to create a drive D: for data without disturbing OS. I
changed MyDocuments target etc to point at D: Now I just backup D:

The question - If problems will Restore CD kill data partition? Or will it
just revert to initial setup but with a perceived smaller hard drive?

--Len

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The HP "destructive" recovery process will repartition the hard drive
to the way it was originally when it shipped from the factory.
So any partitions subsequently created by you will be deleted.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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Carey,
I'm just curious about this. At present there are no problems.

New notebook with XPPro pre-installed. Before anything else, I used
partitioning software to create a drive D: for data without disturbing OS. I
changed MyDocuments target etc to point at D: Now I just backup D:

The question - If problems will Restore CD kill data partition? Or will it
just revert to initial setup but with a perceived smaller hard drive?

--Len