Recovery disk

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Ken

First, thanks to everyone who helped with my product key question.

I want to make a recovery disk or disks for my desktop which has windows xp
home media center as I cannot find it, the computer was not suplied with
one.
Ken
 
Ken said:
First, thanks to everyone who helped with my product key question.

I want to make a recovery disk or disks for my desktop which has
windows xp home media center as I cannot find it, the computer was
not suplied with one.
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New laptop?
Contact those who sold you the laptop and find out how to make or obtain
said media. Know that if they did not provide a way to make the media and
they did not sell you media - they may sell you media now.

Used laptop?
Check your receipt and see what was to be included. After that - if nothing
was included - contact the laptop manufacturer for assistance and see what
recovery method it should have and how you can obtain actual media.

What you REALLY would like is true installation media - not
restoration/recovery. The latter may be nothing more than an image of what
is supposed to be on the machine. The former is the actual media for the
actual products - so you can install them individually.
 
Shenan Stanley said:
What you REALLY would like is true installation media - not
restoration/recovery. The latter may be nothing more than an image of
what is supposed to be on the machine. The former is the actual media
for the actual products - so you can install them individually.
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PMFBIH

IBM told me _repeatedly_ that their recovery CD would act as a full
installation CD on a freshly formatted drive. More BS?

Jim L
 
PMFBIH

IBM told me _repeatedly_ that their recovery CD would act as a full
installation CD on a freshly formatted drive. More BS?

Jim L
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Probably not more BS although the applicability might be to a
specific IBM computer make or model of computer and/or part.
 
The answers to my original question seem to gone off key what I wanted was
to deal with a desktop and not a laptop, so can anyone help please.

Thanks

Ken
 
Ken said:
First, thanks to everyone who helped with my product key question.

I want to make a recovery disk or disks for my desktop which has
windows xp home media center as I cannot find it, the computer was
not suplied with one.
Click to expand...
The answers to my original question seem to gone off key what I
wanted was to deal with a desktop and not a laptop, so can anyone
help please.
Click to expand...

Same answer... Relatively...

New desktop?
Contact those who sold you the desktop and find out how to make or
obtain said media. Know that if they did not provide a way to make
the media and they did not sell you media - they may sell you media
now.

Used desktop?
Check your receipt and see what was to be included. After that -
if nothing was included - contact the desktop manufacturer for
assistance and see what recovery method it should have and how you
can obtain actual media.

What you REALLY would like is true installation media - not
restoration/recovery. The latter may be nothing more than an image
of what is supposed to be on the machine. The former is the actual
media for the actual products - so you can install them
individually.
 
Ken said:
The problem is the store where I bought it has gone bust.
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Then use imaging software like Acronis True Image to image your current
system. At some point you will probably need to purchase a retail copy of
the operating system (XP). It would also be wise to do a system inventory
of your hardware and get drivers downloaded and backed up to cd-r.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.aumha.org/free.htm - Aida32 (hosted on Jim Eshelman's site)

Malke
 
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