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| From | BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS |
| Date | 2011-06-30 10:50 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <iui606$mfe$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <isunei$sar$1@dont-email.me> <isvjfr$ql6$1@dont-email.me> <isvner$fnn$1@dont-email.me> <isvrdk$62b$1@dont-email.me> <iu0v0t$u0o$1@dont-email.me> |
On 6/23/2011 10:07 PM, Bill wrote:
> On 6/11/2011 8:43 AM, BillW50 wrote:
>
>
>> This place wants $26.99 (free shipping) for a HP dv6000 recovery disc.
>
>> http://www.restoredisks.com
>
> The restore disks from this placed arrived today. 3 CD's. It took
> almost 7 hours to load everything but the look and feel is just as
> it was when I bought the machine new. The long load time was
> mostly the machine sitting there quietly and doing stuff without
> intervention. It announced the time it would take and kept ticking
> down the seconds as it went.
>
> I'll have to overcome the built-in Microsoft Office suite that
> Microsoft installs with the hope that the machine owner will buy
> it. Other than that minor nuisance I'm happy to get my laptop
> back as it was.
>
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> Bill
Hi Bill! I got curious about 7 hours to install. So I ordered a recovery
disc for this laptop just to check it out. And I got three CDs as well.
And I threw in one of my spare hard drives and went to install. And here
it only had taken about 35 minutes to install (which is about normal for
XP). And I didn't need to use the key code to install, did you? Although
I do have 30 days to activate.
Now I am thinking for yours to take 7 hours, well your CD/DVD drive can
be flaky and it could take that long. So that is just one suggestion on
what it could be.
This Gateway restore discs from restoredisks didn't forced me to install
all of the extra software on the machine. As I could pick from a list
which ones I wanted to install.
One thing that was sort of disappointing for me with this restore disc
is that they didn't slipstream the SATA driver into the CD. And without
the driver, you need the drivers on a floppy disc and use the F6 option
during the install. Pain in the butt for most people I would assume.
Since most doesn't have floppy drives or floppy disks either for that
matter.
--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3.0
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3
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HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-10 22:29 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-11 06:27 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-11 07:35 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-11 08:43 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-17 09:38 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-17 15:57 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-17 18:41 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-06-18 01:24 +0000
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-18 05:16 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-06-20 08:44 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-21 08:17 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-06-18 01:20 +0000
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-23 22:07 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 16:16 -0700
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-25 05:06 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-06-25 04:51 -0700
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-25 07:10 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-25 08:55 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-30 10:50 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-06-30 09:59 -0700
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-06-30 12:28 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-06-30 18:21 -0700
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-01 23:55 +0000
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-02 05:32 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-06-30 17:45 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-01 23:57 +0000
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-02 05:18 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-07-01 03:41 -0700
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-01 23:54 +0000
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS Bill <llib@vacant.void.com> - 2011-07-01 19:14 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-02 01:59 +0000
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS AJL <36566678nomail@none.com> - 2011-07-01 21:21 -0700
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-06-11 12:43 -0500
Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS markfinn8_at_gmail_dot_com@foo.com (markfinn) - 2011-08-18 19:16 +0000
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