Full System Restore after resetting to Factory Default Settings - How?

Hi Guys

I'm running an HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop with Vista Home Premium 3
bit

I noticed that it was beginning to freeze and just assumed it wa
Firefox upto its old 'can't cope with memory allocation' tricks again
But it wasn't

So, after the PC would no longer get past its initiation stage, an
after pressing F11 (as instructed in the user manual) to try an
automatically resolve whatever the problem was (which didn't work), an
then being left with a PC which wouldn't boot at all, I did a save o
the entire C drive (using the PC's own System Recovery procedure) to
USB external drive and then went throught the process of resetting th
PC to its factory settings

So I'm at the position of now wanting to retore all the files
registries, web browser favourites, files, folders etc. which I saved t
the external drive

So, I've now got a short cut on my desk top called "Shortcut to Syste
Recovery Files", and I'd like someone please to explain how, or point m
in the direction of a tuorial where, I can put my PC back to how it wa
before I reset it to facotry default - i.e. I want my Outlook email an
everything else back where it was, i.e. not just as a shortcut on m
desk top

Hope that's clear enough guys - please feel free to ask any question
and I'll answer what I can

Thanks in advance

Bren

--
Bren Tierney

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:32:59 -0600, Bren Tierney wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm running an HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop with Vista Home Premium 32
> bit.
>
> I noticed that it was beginning to freeze and just assumed it was
> Firefox upto its old 'can't cope with memory allocation' tricks again.
> But it wasn't.
>
> So, after the PC would no longer get past its initiation stage, and
> after pressing F11 (as instructed in the user manual) to try and
> automatically resolve whatever the problem was (which didn't work), and
> then being left with a PC which wouldn't boot at all, I did a save of
> the entire C drive (using the PC's own System Recovery procedure) to a
> USB external drive and then went throught the process of resetting the
> PC to its factory settings.
>
> So I'm at the position of now wanting to retore all the files,
> registries, web browser favourites, files, folders etc. which I saved to
> the external drive.
>
> So, I've now got a short cut on my desk top called "Shortcut to System
> Recovery Files", and I'd like someone please to explain how, or point me
> in the direction of a tuorial where, I can put my PC back to how it was
> before I reset it to facotry default - i.e. I want my Outlook email and
> everything else back where it was, i.e. not just as a shortcut on my
> desk top.
>
> Hope that's clear enough guys - please feel free to ask any questions
> and I'll answer what I can.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bren.

Though I'm not the world's leading expert, what I would do (and have done)
is:

Get some sort of antivirus and firewall going.

Capture all the Windows updates.

Use the old drive as a reference. You can view the desktop, the start
folder, and so on, as a guide to what you had.

With that guide, install all your software from CDs, DVDs, and your
downloaded files (from the old drive).

Get all your documents from the old drive.

Import e-mail and so on from the old drive.

Expect not to be having fun.

Actually, it's a lot like getting a new computer, minus the possible need
to get new versions of programs for compatibility with a new OS.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

"Bren Tierney" wrote:

>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm running an HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop with Vista Home Premium 32
> bit.
>
> I noticed that it was beginning to freeze and just assumed it was
> Firefox upto its old 'can't cope with memory allocation' tricks again.
> But it wasn't.
>
> So, after the PC would no longer get past its initiation stage, and
> after pressing F11 (as instructed in the user manual) to try and
> automatically resolve whatever the problem was (which didn't work), and
> then being left with a PC which wouldn't boot at all, I did a save of
> the entire C drive (using the PC's own System Recovery procedure) to a
> USB external drive and then went throught the process of resetting the
> PC to its factory settings.
>
> So I'm at the position of now wanting to retore all the files,
> registries, web browser favourites, files, folders etc. which I saved to
> the external drive.
>
> So, I've now got a short cut on my desk top called "Shortcut to System
> Recovery Files", and I'd like someone please to explain how, or point me
> in the direction of a tuorial where, I can put my PC back to how it was
> before I reset it to facotry default - i.e. I want my Outlook email and
> everything else back where it was, i.e. not just as a shortcut on my
> desk top.
>
> Hope that's clear enough guys - please feel free to ask any questions
> and I'll answer what I can.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bren.
>
>
> --
> Bren Tierney
> .
>

Freeze ups are frequently caused by hardware failure. Follow the
instructions in the instructon manual to restore the machine using the PC's
System Recovery procedure. Surely there must be instructions there for
restoring the backup. Once the machine is back to the unbootable state; use a
Knoppix disk to boot the machine and copy your data off to the external
drive. If the Knoppix disk won't run or freezes, you have hardware troubles.
Once your data is safely onto the external drive, restore the laptop to
factory settings. Now copy your data back to the machine. Once the machine is
working the way you want, use the backup procedure to save a backup of your
working system. If the machine won't restore to the factory settings, you
have hardware failure and you will need to take it in for repair.