My daughter's HP computer came with Vista and no CDs, but a Recovery
Partition. However, her hard drive died and she had no disks. We paid for a
new HD since it was past the warranty period (barely). I called HP and they
wanted to charge $25 to mail her disks. I argued saying they should have
come with the computer since she paid for Vista and got them for free. But
go to the trouble of making disks. In Windows you can do it from them HP
menu. It could save you the hassle of arguing and then waiting for CDs to
arrive.
Roy
Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada
On 5 March 2011 09:14, younger.matthew <younger.matthew@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> OK. Thankyou dbneeley for all of your help. You have been very descriptive
> of how to do this. Hp does not give me ANY installation disks for windows 7,
> However they did backup a full copy of windows 7 to a "Recovery Drive" that
> somehow stores all of the os (not my personal data) to this recoverey drive.
> so..... is this just a parition that if somthing goes wrong with the install
> it will erase that too? or I guess what I am asking is.... In the worst case
> scenario what can I do to get a backup copy of windows 7? I am not paying
> for it. It came as an extra when it was bought. Im pretty sure you need an
> install code thing with microsoft is this right? I think there is a backup
> utility that can make me a copy of the OS. But this seems suspicious, why
> would microsoft give away a free version of their OS? Or is this just all of
> my data that it will back up. I am sorry that I still have a lot of
> questions. I will need my windows for some software that will be essential.
> If I don't have windows, I am sunk!
>
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