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

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed November 26 2008, Stephen Cristol wrote:
> This is disappointing. I was hoping one of the files on the recovery  
> partition was an ISO without an extension.
>
> Thanks,

I have a "newer" dell XPS desktop with a DUo Core processor. It came with XP. 
I just mounted the recovery partition. Here is what is there:
# ls -l
total 160
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1871 2005-07-07 21:34 autoexec.bat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2004-05-17 03:49 bat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-12-27 21:28 bin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 56403 2005-12-01 20:53 command.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   117 2004-05-17 03:49 config.sys
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 29343 2005-12-01 20:53 dellbio.bin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32058 2005-12-01 20:53 dellrmk.bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2004-05-17 03:49 img
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-12-27 21:28 src1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-12-27 21:28 src2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-12-27 21:28 src3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-12-27 21:28 src4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-12-27 21:28 src5
paulandcilla:/media/sda3# ls -l img
total 4255460
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048556584 2006-12-27 22:07 fi000001.ghs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048575035 2006-12-27 22:09 fi000002.ghs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048569861 2006-12-27 22:10 fi000003.ghs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  163306718 2006-12-27 22:11 fi000004.ghs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048574894 2006-12-27 22:11 fi.gho


paulandcilla:/media/sda3# ls -l src1
total 1180
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       0 2004-05-17 03:49 mbr.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1193384 2004-05-17 03:49 srclient.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    8662 2004-04-15 17:52 srclient.xml
paulandcilla:/media/sda3# ls -l src2
total 1188
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    5686 2004-05-17 03:49 dell.bmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1193384 2004-05-17 03:49 srclient.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   11782 2004-06-15 18:54 srclient.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       0 2004-05-17 03:49 welcome.txt
paulandcilla:/media/sda3# ls -l src3
total 1180
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       0 2004-05-17 03:49 confirm.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1193384 2004-05-17 03:49 srclient.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   10020 2004-04-15 18:52 srclient.xml
paulandcilla:/media/sda3# ls -l src4
total 1180
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1193384 2004-05-17 03:49 srclient.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    8502 2004-05-26 20:09 srclient.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       0 2004-05-17 03:49 success.txt
paulandcilla:/media/sda3# ls -l src5
total 1180
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       0 2004-05-17 03:49 fail.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1193384 2004-05-17 03:49 srclient.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    8567 2004-04-15 17:53 srclient.xml

ls -l bin
total 1456
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    4661 2006-12-27 21:28 dsrcheck.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    5063 2006-12-27 21:28 dsrreset.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15266 2005-11-14 23:45 himem.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    8321 2005-11-04 00:26 mouse.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1436176 2005-12-05 17:15 recover.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    6987 2006-12-27 21:28 restart.exe

no iso'S to be found.
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Paul Cartwright
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