Posts by BAGSY65

i tried that - my son damaged his hard drive on his laptop, i didnt have the recovery dvd , i had a copy of windows xp media centre (which was the os on his computer) so i installed this onto his new hard drive - and used his serial...

no, the recovery is on a 'hidden' partition of the hard drive , all you will be doing by recovering is resetting the computer to its factory state , you will lose any programs and files you,ve installed since youve had it though, theres...

Hi clint , i was reading something about this the other day - have a look at the following - http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...ard-drive.html hope this helps

yes , i had emailed support at hp, and thought i wouldnt get a reply, however this morning they mailed me , with a phone number i can call and obtain the recovery disks, so they're ordered now, thanks for that, and (unless i,m not...

Oh , in addition , his hard drive is completely shot, wont even recognise it on booting, therefore i,m unable to create a recovery disk , and i already tried the 'order recovery disk ' option on hp's site but the link is dead

hi , my son had damaged his hard drive on this notebook, i,ve replaced it , and partitioned it etc, and am looking to re-install xp media centre , which it came with, however , he has either lost, or never recieved a recovery cd/dvd - so...