creating recovery disks

I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home
64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the house.
Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks will include
all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do all 20 to get
recovery disks jsut for Vista?

--
Donna

Hi,

That creation program is specific to HP's installation of Vista on your
system. You can't separate Vista from the preinstalled software, it's all
part of their image. So in short, yes, you need all 20 disks.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"geekdna" <> wrote in message
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>I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home
>64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the house.
>Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks will include
>all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do all 20 to get
>recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>
> --
> Donna
>

"geekdna" <> wrote:

>I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home
>64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the house.
>Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks will include
>all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do all 20 to get
>recovery disks jsut for Vista?

If you are able to use blank DVDs, it will be better.

Bill Daggett wrote:
> "geekdna" <> wrote:
>
>> I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home
>> 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the house.
>> Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks will include
>> all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do all 20 to get
>> recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>
> If you are able to use blank DVDs, it will be better.

Why should it take twenty CDs to install an operating system, when it
only took one to install Windows 2000 Professional?

I don't see any improvements.

It took 3 DVD-Rs to make my recovery disks.

Because it's more than just the operating system. HP's image recovery
includes all the preinstalled software as well. A standard Vista disk is a
single DVD.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Johnny" <> wrote in message
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> Bill Daggett wrote:
>> "geekdna" <> wrote:
>>
>>> I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista
>>> home 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the
>>> house. Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks
>>> will include all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to
>>> do all 20 to get recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>>
>> If you are able to use blank DVDs, it will be better.
>
> Why should it take twenty CDs to install an operating system, when it only
> took one to install Windows 2000 Professional?
>
> I don't see any improvements.
>
> It took 3 DVD-Rs to make my recovery disks.

"geekdna" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home
> 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the house.
> Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks will
> include all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do all
> 20 to get recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>
> --
> Donna
>

Use DVDs.. you only need three or four of them..

The recovery media creation process does not back up the running operating
system. It creates the disks from the recovery partition, so no amount of
operating system customization will alter the fact that use of the new
recovery disks will leave you with a machine as it left HP manufacturing..

--

Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Johnny <> wrote:

>Bill Daggett wrote:
>> "geekdna" <> wrote:
>>
>>> I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home
>>> 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the house.
>>> Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks will include
>>> all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do all 20 to get
>>> recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>>
>> If you are able to use blank DVDs, it will be better.
>
>Why should it take twenty CDs to install an operating system, when it
>only took one to install Windows 2000 Professional?
>
>I don't see any improvements.
>
>It took 3 DVD-Rs to make my recovery disks.

It only took one for me to install Vista on my machine. But all that
I installed was the OS... not all the included software: the trial
software, the diagnostic software, etc., etc.

3 DVD-R discs is normal.

Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
>
> "geekdna" <> wrote in message
> news:#...
>> I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista
>> home 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the
>> house. Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks
>> will include all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to
>> do all 20 to get recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>>
>> --
>> Donna
>>
>
> Use DVDs.. you only need three or four of them..
>
> The recovery media creation process does not back up the running
> operating system. It creates the disks from the recovery partition, so
> no amount of operating system customization will alter the fact that use
> of the new recovery disks will leave you with a machine as it left HP
> manufacturing..
>

Why don't you just make it simple, instead of confusing people?

When you use the recovery disks, your computer will be just like it was
when it left the factory.

Because, when you create the recovery media you are actually copying the
recovery partition that is on the drive. This includes much more than just
the operating system! It includes all the crapware that HP includes on their
system, which is tons.

When you are done you can delete the recovery partition and merge it with
the main partition, as you now have the bases covered.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Johnny" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Bill Daggett wrote:
>> "geekdna" <> wrote:
>>
>>> I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista
>>> home 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the
>>> house. Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks
>>> will include all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to
>>> do all 20 to get recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>>
>> If you are able to use blank DVDs, it will be better.
>
> Why should it take twenty CDs to install an operating system, when it only
> took one to install Windows 2000 Professional?
>
> I don't see any improvements.
>
> It took 3 DVD-Rs to make my recovery disks.

"Mike Hall - MVP" <> a écrit dans le message de
news:...
>
> "geekdna" <> wrote in message
> news:#...
>> I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista
>> home 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using blank CDs I had in the
>> house. Using those disks I need 20 of them. I know the recovery disks
>> will include all the software I won't use and don't want. Do I need to do
>> all 20 to get recovery disks jsut for Vista?
>>
>> --
>> Donna
>>
>
> Use DVDs.. you only need three or four of them..
>
> The recovery media creation process does not back up the running operating
> system. It creates the disks from the recovery partition, so no amount of
> operating system customization will alter the fact that use of the new
> recovery disks will leave you with a machine as it left HP manufacturing..
>
> --
>
> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Are CR-R and DVD-R disks sufficiently reliable for this sort of thing? I
have no end of trouble trying to make recordings that stand the test of
time. It's difficult even to get information on the best recording speed
when reliability matters.

This seems to be common situation, as testified by the huge amount of burner
software that's available. Some is bloated, some is crap and some is
impenetrable to non-geeks. Freeware and OEM packages are the worst, but I
don't see why I have to pay for this sort of stuff.

Plenty of drives - like some of those that come with Dell - don't work
properly either. Perhaps it's a conspiracy by the (fictitious I hope) Blank
Disk Manufacturer's Association.

In the long run it would be better to buy a few hard disks that are cheap
because slightly obsolete, together with a USB/firewire cable or box. Keep
more than one copy.