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Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups

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On 3/13/2013 6:19 PM, dg1261 wrote:
> Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> wrote in news:khqihg$kac$1@speranza.aioe.org:
>
>> HP prohibits it. Their pcs are enabled to create one set and one
>> set only. You want more, you have to go to the company and buy them.
>>
>
> That's not exactly true.  Specifically, it's HP's recovery disc creator app
> that's crippled, not the PC itself.  Once it creates a DVD set, it probably
> sets a flag in the registry or might even delete the app so it can't be
> used again.  However, IME if/when you do a factory restore, even from the
> on-disk recovery partition, you are once again offered the chance to create
> a set of recovery DVDs.

I discovered this with my brother's HP desktop last weekend. He 
couldn't find his restore discs, and attempting to make a new set 
resulted in the 'sorry, you are only allowed to create one set of 
discs' message. So we performed a full factory restore from the 
partition, figuring that would enable us to create a new set of discs. 
Nope. Immediately after completing the factory restore, we attempted 
to create recovery discs and once again got the 'sorry, you are only 
allowed to create one set of discs' message.

HP's support site had indicated that, but I couldn't believe it until 
we tried it ourselves.

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How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-13 10:41 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> - 2013-03-13 11:07 -0400
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-13 11:49 -0400
      Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> - 2013-03-13 12:18 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2013-03-13 13:53 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2013-03-13 14:03 -0500
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-03-13 23:19 +0000
      Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2013-03-14 07:05 -0500
        Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-03-14 20:06 +0000
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2013-03-13 17:22 -0600
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-14 02:22 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-14 02:47 -0400

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