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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm |
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> > that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop blows the whole |
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> > disk away and reformats it like it was new from the factory. With |
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> > this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista onto the disk and save |
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> > the existing Gentoo install. that will have to be reloaded form |
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> > backups. |
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> Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have given |
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> you a prompt. |
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I don't follow Alan. |
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The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to |
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restore the disk to the way it was shipped from HP?" Answer no and it |
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does nothing. Answer yes and if blows away all partitions, builds two |
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new partitions, and puts the HP image on the disk. |
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I don't follow what you mean? |
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- Mark |
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