No vista disc with new comp

wingates

Hi. just got an HP comp from Comet. Great comp. Got no discs with it. Is this normal?

Stubert

Does it have a recovery partition on the hard drive instead?

S0litaire

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.

aqueoushumour01

so is there a way to make a copy on either cd or dvd in case something goes wrong?

Regeneration

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

Check your programs list you may have HP recovery and backup program listed.

f1charlie

Regeneration wrote: »

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.

donnajunkie

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

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.