Re: hp recovery dvd

til wrote:

> I don't see any way the verify the [recovery] dvds
> at this time. Any ideas?

Well, you could try them on a machine in a store :-)
You're facing a basic connundrum of backup. If you
haven't ever restored a given backup, you have to
assume it won't.

But in addition to the other tips people have posted,
here's another: does the OEM key (if any) for the
machine work with generic XP install media? If so, and
if MS hasn't made XP media uncopyable, you might
be able to get a clone of someone elses XP CD for
use as rebuild media. This tactic did work on mid- and
late-1990s PCs.

> I said I would never purchase a proprietary computer,
> and just purchased a pavilion a1228x.

I began building my own about the same time PC makers
stopped including full-install media. I have helped other
people buy branded PCs, and currently use the criterion:
does it also support Linux? If so, that's usually an indication
that drivers for all the chips & bits inside are separately
available from the recovery media/partition, and that there
is at least a small chance you'll be able to upgrade at the
next major OS roll. Whether or not any current HP/Compaq
PCs meet my criteria, I couldn't say.

When a PC doesn't also run Linux, odds are high that at
least one of the components has no Linux drivers, and as
often as not, that component will turn out to have been
custom-made for the PC brand, and you can't even get
Win drivers from the supplier that actually built it. And if
it's a chip, or just a VLSI cell inside a chip (e.g. audio),
you may not even be able to shut it off and replace it with
a real supportable card or bussed device.

> I attempt to create the recovery dvd discs today and
> after finishing the first, the system says that there are
> errors on it and it has to be recreated. I put another disc
> in and start over. It makes the second and gives me a
> message saying that no more can be created.

I had thought that nonsense was abandoned in 1988. Guess not.
It wasn't MS doing it at the time, so perhaps they didn't learn.
It's too late to try this on your PC, but I wonder if doing an
image backup of the HDD would allow one to get around
the recovery-build count. Re-image the HDD after each try,
and see if it resets the count to zero.

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