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HP with Vista going back to XP
Hi all,
Right i have a little situation and would be very greatful for some pointers. I purchased a HP Pavillion DV9000 laptop and it works a dream. It came stocked with XP MCE and i decided to use a beta release of Vista to give it a try. To give it a fair test i installed Vista on a fresh install as the only OS. I now want to go back to XP for various reasons. . . i.e. the beta is running out, but i have no XP disk and no way of accessing the recovery partition. Is there a way of connecting the recovery partition that i am unaware of? or any other way to retrieve my copy of XP from this partition as i was not given a disk? Many thanks for your help and time. Ben |
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HP with Vista going back to XP
I should add that i have tried right clicking on the partition and selecting
explore as stated on the HP website, however this did not work for me. "Ben" wrote in message ... Hi all, Right i have a little situation and would be very greatful for some pointers. I purchased a HP Pavillion DV9000 laptop and it works a dream. It came stocked with XP MCE and i decided to use a beta release of Vista to give it a try. To give it a fair test i installed Vista on a fresh install as the only OS. I now want to go back to XP for various reasons. . . i.e. the beta is running out, but i have no XP disk and no way of accessing the recovery partition. Is there a way of connecting the recovery partition that i am unaware of? or any other way to retrieve my copy of XP from this partition as i was not given a disk? Many thanks for your help and time. Ben |
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HP with Vista going back to XP
Ben wrote:
I should add that i have tried right clicking on the partition and selecting explore as stated on the HP website, however this did not work for me. (snip multipost) Asked and answered in the other newsgroup to which you posted. Please don't multipost; it makes more work for everyone and will get you *less* help, not more. See this for why: http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm If you have forgotten where you posted or can't find your post, use Google Groups Advanced Search and search for your name. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |