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No vista disc with new comp

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Hi. just got an HP comp from Comet. Great comp. Got no discs with it. Is this normal?
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  • Stubert
    Stubert Posts: 733 Forumite
    Does it have a recovery partition on the hard drive instead?
  • S0litaire
    S0litaire Posts: 3,535 Forumite
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    wingates wrote: »
    Hi. just got an HP comp from Comet. Great comp. Got no discs with it. Is this normal?

    Should have "Driver" disks but these days they just have a "Recovery Partition" (Which is useless if the drive fails!!).

    If you contact HP they will probably charge you anything up to £35 for the disks.
    Laters

    Sol

    "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
  • so is there a way to make a copy on either cd or dvd in case something goes wrong?
    :D
  • you could make your own, and i was going to recommend acronis trueimage but its about £20, however it comes to light that seagate have rebadged acronis trueimage and called it discwizard and it available as a free download from there site http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/
  • aerostar
    aerostar Posts: 1,738 Forumite
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    Check your programs list you may have HP recovery and backup program listed.
  • f1charlie
    f1charlie Posts: 1,228 Forumite
    you could make your own, and i was going to recommend acronis trueimage but its about £20, however it comes to light that seagate have rebadged acronis trueimage and called it discwizard and it available as a free download from there site http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/


    I believe this will only work if you have a Seagate or Maxtor drive in your system, or an external drive.
    Charlie
  • donnajunkie
    donnajunkie Posts: 32,412 Forumite
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    you can make your own backup. it requires two dvdr discs for the system discs and one cdr for a boot disc. it only allows you to do it once. click on the help and support icon on screen and find out how to do it there.
  • hubris
    hubris Posts: 98 Forumite
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    If you're concerned about Windows, contact Microsoft. You have already essentially paid for a license for Windows, so they should send you the disk(s), free of charge.
    Please use OpenDocument (ISO 26300) format (.odt - .ods - .odp - .odg) for attachments
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