Re: HP Recovery Disc Set creation

R. P. wrote:
Last month I bought an HP laptop at OfficeDepot which , after successfully removing a bunch of preinstalled junkware, has been working fine. With that clean-up behind me, I decided to burn a set of recovery discs. To my surprise, the operation was refused with the error message that such disc set had already been created and only one set was allowed. The funny thing is that this was the first time I tried to create the recovery set.

I then promptly mailed a complaint to HP's tech support which to my surprise replied within only a couple hours, suggesting to update the Restore Manager from their web site and then I should try to create the disc set again. Well, I did just that but I still could not create the disc set for the same reason. When told, HP Tech Support promised to ship me the recovery disc set ASAP. Assuming I actually will get it, I will end up again with a set that includes all the preinstalled junkware that I would have to get rid off again if I ever need to restore my system from those discs. So I hope I won't.

Has any of you been through the same thing, not being able to create the recovery disc set?

Rudy

This won't help you, but might help the next person.
The absolute FIRST thing you should do with any new
(or used) computer
is to save images of ALL the disk partitions.
Programs like Acronis or Ghost will let you do this from
a bootable CD without installing anything on your system.

That way, when you accidentally blow away the program that
makes the recovery disks, you can recover.

I had the same problem with a used Compaq laptop.
The solution was to borrow an XP install disk (pro or home
to match what you have) and extract
its contents. Then delete the i386 directory and replace
it with the i386 directory from your laptop. You can then
burn an XP install disk that will work with the licence code
on your COA sticker. While you're at it, put all the drivers
you can find on the system on the disk too.

This won't give you a recovery disk, but will give you an
install disk. You'll have to reinstall the bloat separately.

There are numerous web tutorials with step-by-step instructions
on how to do this.

If you don't have the i386 directory on your laptop, you may be
screwed. I never found any stock XP boot disk that would
accept my license code and/or activate. Using my i386 directory
fixed that problem.

Maybe someone else knows exactly which file knows about
matching the disk contents to the license key.

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