[ale] [OT] Help with burning recovery disks from HP

[Jim Kinney]

Sound like the drive died to me. Try booting from a live CD of your fav
distro and see if the machine will run. Get prepped for a new drive and a
call to HP for a shipped recovery disk.

2008/11/26 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:41:39 -0500
> Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > The most recent HP systems I have seen included the ability to burn
> > > to DVD, but only once, and only before you use the restore
> > > partition.
> >
> > Advanced users can find simple instructions online to re-enable the
> > burning of the recovery disks.  And, of course, once the system is
> > recovered via the disks the ability to make another set presents
> > itself.
> >
>
> Maybe on some systems.  I know that the s7700n that I have did not
> permit that; the restored version of Windows didn't even have those
> utilities installed (that is to say, that the restore partition does
> _not_ give you a setup that is 100% the way it comes from the factory).
>
> >
> > > But, unless there is an ISO image present, burning that recovery
> > > partition to any media is, while probably possible, not something
> > > that I know of anyone who knows how to do it.  It's probably system-
> > > dependent, too, the way OEMs do things these days.
> >
> > The recovery stuff is system dependent, which is why we need the
> > model number. But alas there is no ISO  image to burn.
> >
>
> One would think that if they wanted people to use the restore media,
> they'd still be providing optical media to restore from.  It is clear
> that they didn't consider what happens if the hard drive shoots itself
> in the foot and the user doesn't want to---or doesn't have the time
> to---send the machine back to the vendor.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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