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I just had to do some home surgery. Son dropped laptop, and hard drive didnt recover. Shame, since the harddrive was supposed to be able to survive these (thats what Compaq/HP says on the sales blurb; me - I never believe any of that :-) ) After a quick, "what next? dash to the stores?", decided to reclaim an unused spare 80GB laptop drive and go with that : zero cost fix. So, onto the Windows Vista recovery disks we made when the laptop was new. Great, after 3 CDROMs (or were they DVDs?), we reboot and we get a nice "Windows cannot proceed with the installation" type dialog and reboots. Nothing, including safe-mode will work. Quick google search: you cannot install Vista from the recovery disks. Pardon? Like most PCs out there, they all ship without recovery media, and you have to make your own. I do hate that. Its a "con" for the general public and they dont realise it. I have a copy of Vista on DVD, but after trying that, that was going nowhere fast. So I tried the Window7 recovery disk - and it worked a treat. It installed (despite the recovery disk being for a Dell), and a short time later, a fully functioning Windows 7 install. Wifi worked; laptop screen resolution was spot on, and absolutely nothing to dislike. Of course, it doesnt have a license, and sooner or later, Windows 7 will remind us. But I dont really care. I paid for Vista - twice, once for a machine that never needed or used it, and once for the compaq, which lost its hard drive, and for which the recovery disks were a waste of life spent making them. (Maybe I can salvage my sons core data: itunes library, and firefox bookmarks, but he isnt that fussed). World-of-warcraft is busy downloading updates, and he is using the other PC until he can get a few seconds to walk across the room and carry on life as if nothing bad ever happens. All the time, I am wondering: there must be more to life than watching progress bars on screens. Post created by CRiSP v10.0.3a-b5931 Read more http://crtags.blogspot.com/2011/01/windows-7-you-made-friend.html |