I was wondering, you know how there's the pre-installed option in the start menu for using the Application and Driver Recovery program to restore software/drivers for your PC on HP OEM machines? Is there a way to just make backups of the software and drivers that are being retrieved and restored onto a seperate disk? Like just incase something happens to your recovery partition/discs/diskettes? Or maybe if something becomes corrupted, and you don't want to do a full reformat just to reinstall those things? Is that at all possible?
By the way, here are my specifications:
OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Model: HP Pavilion a1540n
Is there also by any chance a CD/downloadable package that already has this available? Like an HP applications and drivers only recovery CD/disc/diskette?
I've heard rumors of a slipstreamed version or something, but that's all skeptical at the moment.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
-Wizman87
2007-01-27 10:05:07 · 4 answers · asked by FueledByRamen 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Why not just go to
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3184140&lang=en
2007-01-27 10:22:55 · answer #1 · answered by computer_guidance 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, HP puts everything in one packet or disc. If something happens to your recovery cd, you are out of luck. You have to order and pay for a back up now.
Also, when you do a recovery there is a "soft" recovery where data is lost but all your programs and the desktop is the same after you finish.
The "hard" recovery will complete REFORMAT your computer setting it back to the specifications when you got it out of the box.
Do not forget about the RESTORE option. This is like a time machine and can restore your computer back to the time before you loaded up that program that is screwed up.
If you make the backup you can do it on a DVD and make one disk, versus several CDs.
Go to PC HELP & TOOLS and just explore the items one by one to learn about them.
2007-01-27 10:07:55 · answer #2 · answered by Big C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Included among the HP recovery tools on your start menu is an option to burn recovery CDs off of the recovery partition.
2007-01-27 10:15:41 · answer #3 · answered by Fix My PC Mike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure and no and relies upon on the motive force u want vs the motive force dell has so you might apply it with HP. Manufacture distribute there motive force by skill of the style of computing device or computing gadget you have some motive force ought to no longer be properly matched.
2016-11-27 23:07:24 · answer #4 · answered by akkash 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋