Posts by RuneJayce

I guess I have no choice but to buy a new hard drive and try to reinstall Windows Vista Business on it... I take it this should work as long as the hard drive has the same RPM speed as the original hard drive; mine being a Hitachi...

Crap! I take it I can use the Recovery Disc on a new hard drive or can I only use it on the original hard drive?

I managed to create a Recovery Disc last night using the hard drive from the 6820s in an external caddy and accessed the Recovery CD creator that way. But now I'm having a problem trying to reinstall Windows Vista as when I accessed...

I think I'd be safer backing up the OSTools and Recovery partitions onto my other laptop then copy them to my external hard drive and after that copy them to the HP laptop from there...

I'll do a seperate post later today with how I made a copy of the Recovery Disc using an external hard drive caddy. On another note, it's good to hear that I can use GPart Live CD to wipe my drive clean then use the Recovery Disc to...

ghn, I've managed to get into the Recovery Disc creator by visiting the link you provided and finding the CD Creator file in the Windows\SMINST folder which turned out to be the Rcovery Disc Creator. I've made a copy and I'm going to...

Since my last post, I've installed Total Commander and I've found various folders in the Recovery partition; the files having been hidden without me realising it... Now that I know that there are files in the recovery partition, can I...

The thing is that the store where I want to sell my laptop will want to have Windows Vista installed on it which is why I need a Recovery Disk ISO... On another note, even though I've found the partitions for the OS Tools and Recovery...

I've decided to sell my Compaq 6820s laptop and use the money to put towards buying a iPod Touch 64GB but I'm looking for a set of Recovery Disc ISO's to wipe the system clean before selling it on after backing up my data [for which I'll...

Is it worth installing a RC version of Windows 7 on a seperate partition on my laptop alongside Windows XP Pro to try it out for a couple of months before buying it or should I buy a copy of Windows 7 itself when it comes out and install...