New PC..?

[Gambitt]

Bulldog, go into "My computer" and check your drive configuration.

Lauren's new computer came with a partition in the hard drive, (a virtual D: drive) that contained all the recovery software, so maybe yours will to.

[Bulldog]

I'm still on my old one, tomorrow I going to switch over and just wanted to see what to do right after, but I will be able to come and view your tip here and go from there tomorrow..

Thanks Gambitt 

[JohnnyCastaway]

unfortunately, every manufacturer does it a different way.   

it's a pet peeve of mine that they don't distribute the disks for recovery, though you can buy a recovery disk for about $25-$40.  The ibm/lenovo brands have a "recovery partition", which if you need to rebuild, then you hit F11 during the startup before windows starts, and it rebuilds the computer back to the way it comes from the factory.  Ok for that, but if the hard drives kacks, then you're SOL.   

You'll find that the manufacturer loaded all sorts of specific "branded" shortcuts all over your desktop probably, one of those should have a shortcut to a utility to create your recovery disks.  It will probably take a couple of CDs or a single  DVD.  It should be labeled something like "system disk utility" or "backup disks" or "create recovery disks".

If it's not on the desktop, then it should be under START --> PROGRAMS --> ALL PROGRAMS --> [manufacturer name] TOOLS (or UTILITIES).

Sorry, I know that's not much help, but I've only installed Vista off raw media so far, i haven't come across and preloaded systems.

[Bulldog]

Thanks for you help John, every little bit helps and that was a whole bunch 

[Bulldog]

I went to the HP site and god love them they are willing to mail me one for around 50$  but I did find this info too..

Step 1: Create a set of recovery discs or a recovery DVD
To create the recovery disc set, Click Start, All Programs, PC Help & Tools (or similar), open HP or Compaq's Recovery CD-DVD Creation software, and follow the on-screen directions.
If you cannot create recovery discs or your discs have become damaged, continue to the next step.


http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph07143&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&os=2093&product=3377257&rule=42244&lang=en

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documentSubCategory?rule=42244&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3377257&os=2093&lang=en  ( info I may need tomorrow ) 

[Bulldog]

OKAY I'm done, had to go to FS to get the right disk to create my own set of recovery disk. FS wanted $80.00 to do this the other days and that
was a scam as it wan't that hard ( Thanks John ) and HP wanted $50.oo to mail me one 

So now I can start to down load and my programs, MSN, Yahoo MSG, Google erath ect...  And start making a super fast system run slower 


So if you do purchase a new PC with Vista they Do NOT come with recovery disk but there not hard to create on your own so don't
fall for the (scam)

[Bulldog]

So I just hooked up the TV feature of my new PC, it's workks great has almost all the features of a PVR, and I can BURN DVD shows that I recorded