Just snapped one of the restart disc's anyway can make second set?

Blakespops

As stated I have just snapped one of the two start up recovery discs you have to burn when you first start up your HP computer. Is there any way at all that a second set can be burned to disc? have tried but it says that one set has already been done so will not let me doing it the normal way just hope and pray someone can help me burn a second set.

Baldur

See http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00809678&cc=uk&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_UKEN#RelatedLinks

CAUTION: The HP Recovery Manager allows the creation of only one (1) set of recovery discs, and the discs are unique to the individual PC. The recovery discs cannot be used to restore the operating system to another PC.

NOTE: If the recovery discs that were created fail or become corrupted, the See Also section lists information about ordering recovery discs from HP

Blakespops

Baldur wrote: »

See http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00809678&cc=uk&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_UKEN#RelatedLinks

Hi yes I know that was just wondering if anyone knew how or if I could get round this and run off a second set of discs for myself. lucky for me I do keep all letters and other paperwork on discs so will not lose that and apart from having to reinstall everything else not bothered if lose everything on the computer as at moment it needs doing full recovery due to someone downloading programmes from sites that do not check and we have tried removing the problem files but some are embedded too deep it would be easier to just recover the darn thing. am now stuck to just using the laptop and we fight over who can have it and this is no good for playing games on.

Baldur

You should be able to restore it from the recovery partition (assuming that it's still intact), if you read the full page on the above link or here is the specific section.

<Edit> The above applies to HP laptops with Vista O/S - for other HP/Compaq models/operating systems, search the HP website for 'system recovery'.

Blakespops

Baldur wrote: »

You should be able to restore it from the recovery partition (assuming that it's still intact), if you read the full page on the above link or here is the specific section.

<Edit> The above applies to HP laptops with Vista O/S - for other HP/Compaq models/operating systems, search the HP website for 'system recovery'.

my wife downloaded some online casino and now it has virus on it that has stopped you opening anti virus programmes. we disconected it from the internet to stop it sending any info but stops us opening the likes of macaffe, adaware or even the install/remove programme. when we open them it closes them and tries to open some internet site that starts !!!!!!!. in my rush to sort the problem i run over one of the discs with my chair and cracked it now it will not work so have spare external hd could use if able to some how copy these discs

4743hudsonj

Blakespops wrote: »

my wife downloaded some online casino and now it has virus on it that has stopped you opening anti virus programmes. we disconected it from the internet to stop it sending any info but stops us opening the likes of macaffe, adaware or even the install/remove programme. when we open them it closes them and tries to open some internet site that starts !!!!!!!. in my rush to sort the problem i run over one of the discs with my chair and cracked it now it will not work so have spare external hd could use if able to some how copy these discs

you run the risk of transferring the virus

have you tried hitting f11 on boot up to access the partition?


you may be able to do something from there.

as for the virus, can you do an online scan

http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/virusscanner


like that


and maybe install ccleaner and see if you can uninstall the program causing you trouble from there


oh and what about booting into safe mode?

http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.shtml


thats a guide on how to in every windows os


so yeh give them a try before

they may just give you enough room to breathe so you can download these three programs


Avira antivir
superantispyware
malwarebytes
(google them)

thses are the best of the best (and free) and will get rid of pretty much anything


ps you will need to remove other antiviruses