Restore or can't restore?

[thewolfe]

A friend has a two-year-old HP P6100Z that the hard drive is gone out on. So I am unable to get to the "restore" partition. Am I correct in assuming that there's no way to recover the operating system since they don't have a CD. And by the way it was running Vista.

[Thenior]

HP sells recovery discs for fairly cheap (like $10). I would contact them with your model info.

But yeah, if your hard drive is toast, you lost the recovery partition.

[thewolfe]

My only problem would be to install Vista back on there. Well I'll give them the choice, thanks for the post.

[Thenior]

The recovery discs from HP should include whatever Vista OS was installed when it was purchased.

[thewolfe]

Sorry, I wasn't clear, I think re-installing Vista is like giving someone an incurable disease.

[Krom]

Vista runs just fine if you give it a minimum of 4 GB of RAM (and stick to the 64 bit version).

[thewolfe]

And neither are the case with this machine.

I haven't taken it out and hooked it up to my computer to see if I can "see" the harddrive or it's fried. Luckily I helped them back up their docs to a flash drive about two weeks ago before they were having trouble and when I found out how much "precious" stuff they had with out a back.

Back up!
Back up!
Back up!

[BUBBALOU]

Side note to all who read this and purchase a new machine with no recovery media (recovery cd/dvd) as soon as you go thru all the welcome and register crap. There will be a program included usually under "brand name/utilities" to make backup recovery disk(s) run it and make some disks... It's a one time deal

Oem mfg's are only required by microsoft to provide 1 source of recovery, being cheap they tend to use a recovery partition instead of separate physical media. But at least they give you a chance to make your own

4 DVDs or 2 DVD/DL

Enjoy

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