Re: No disc formatting option in my new Windows XP?
- From: "glee" <glee29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 09:27:22 -0400
"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23yeTp2RwHHA.4592@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
glee wrote:Yes, but we are not talking about *some* OEM, we are referring to
an Acer laptop pre-loaded with XP. They DO supply recovery discs.
If we were discussing a recent Dell laptop, then no, the user would
not be likely to have received a disc.
While that is true - Acer does a mixture of the two.
They have a hidden partition and restoration CD/DVDs. They are used together in most cases.
While Acers do come with both, they are independent of each other, are not "used together"
And this whole thread had to do with missing individual components - for which most 'recovery processes' such as these are fairly worthless. They are often 'all or nothing' propositions. Sure - you can do a non-destructive restore with a few - but even then - you are not merely installing one application over - you are restoring images of them all.
The OP just had the entire system wiped out and replaced with apparently all the OEM software missing. From my perspective, using the OEM recovery disc if available would be the fastest and simplest way to get all the missing individual components back.....hardly "worthless" IMO.
If it did come with the CD/DVDs (which I would bet it did in this case) they were probably tossed in a drawer or thrown out because most users do not realize their importance. And saying they are unlikely to receive a disk with a Dell - You can receive a disk with the Dell, you must choose the $10 option to get an actual Windows installation CD --> instead of the whole recovery process crud.
....and I have not seen one Dell system yet where the user actually noticed that option and ordered the CD for the extra $10. Hence my specific use of the word "Unlikely". ;-)
My point was quite simple - so there would be no misunderstanding later if the topic was searched for...
Not all OEMs have the same method of recovery. While Acer uses a two method process (that can be somewhat modified and 'tweaked' into a single method process of just the CD/DVDs),
That's not correct. No modifying or tweaking is involved to use just the discs with Acers. The recovery can be done with the discs exclusively, out of the box. The hidden partition scenario they use is totally separate. I have an Acer here and have done this quite recently.
other OEMs (Sony & HP comes to mind) make you create the CD/DVDs for the later possibility of a restoration (and only allow you to do so ONCE in some cases) and still others have nothing but restoration partitions. My goal was not to debate - but to make clear that someone reading this not assume that what they might be considering getting into is the 'same situation' - as they might have a different restoration method.
No problem....understood, and I agree. We are just approaching from differing perspectives. I am working with the fact that the system in question is an Acer notebook and going from there, looking at the Op's specific issues. Your response is attempting to be more general or universal, that includes all notebooks. I am less concerned about posterity, I suppose. ;-)
And I believe this:
(Posted elsewhere in this thread...)
Another_newbie wrote:Thanks for the hindsight, but this laptop was a (new) gift from my
now ex husband. If I had bought it, there would be a few things I
would have done differently, that's for sure.
Would pretty well explain where the CDs/DVDs might be...
It is entirely possible the 'now ex husband' has the CDs/DVDs and/or threw them away in spite. *grin*
Ouch! That's very possible. Gotta love relationships!
As this is far off topic - let me end with something on topic for the OP...
You wanted an easy/free CD/DVD recorder... I recently started using a new one that has not even made it to the list I sent earlier - although it seems much more stable/better interface/easy to use...
InfraRecorder
http://sourceforge.net/projects/infrarecorder
And yes - it is free!
Hey, thanks for that....another free CD utility to try out. Here's a more descriptive link, for the OP:
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
I like Silentnight Microburner:
http://www.silentnight2004.com/microburner.html
The current version 6 is not free, but not expensive.
I prefer the older versions 4 and 5, which were free.
While v.4 is hard to find, v.5 is still available from a number of locations if one searches.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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