Thanks Paul.
I did a system recovery on the advice of HP tech support b/c laptop
was not recognizing network/connecting ot the internet
Upon re-boot recovery disc instrux came up...it's taking 2 DVD's.
I won't touch D again.
Now hopefully the computer will recognize the home network!
....Lisa
On Aug 17, 10:40 pm, "Paul Randall" <paulr...@cableone.net> wrote:
> Backup and recovery may be two different things. Doing DVD number 3 just
> doesn't sound right to me because the systems I've done requied only two
> DVDs. I would suggest going to help and support and searching for 'recovery
> disc'. There should be some links that get you to a "here's how' link which
> starts the actual 'create recover disc' process. That's how it works on my
> cheapo Compaq, but the process varies from one Compaq computer to the next.
>
> Near the beginning of the process it may ask you to choose what type of
> media you will be using and tell you how many CDs or DVDs or DVD-DLs it will
> need. It typically picks one of your CD or DVD drives and gives you choices
> based on that. On a laptop that could only write to CDs, that was my only
> choice; it ignored the DVD-DL writer I had plugged into a USB port, but I
> found a way to get around that. 7 to 10 CDs or 2 DVDs or 1 or 2 DVD-DLs is
> typical. It may want to create all the images before starting to write the
> first one which means that you have to tell it where to store the images.
> DON'T put them on the recovery partition. Don't use that partition for
> anything.
>
> You are typically only allowed to create one set of recovery discs. You use
> them when things are so screwed up that you are willing to wipe out
> everything on the hard drive in order to get your system working again. In
> theory, they should restore your system to 'out of the box' state. I doubt
> that you can make another set of recovery discs, so it is not exactly the
> same as 'out of the box'.
>
> On a laptop, I changed my mind about creating CDs -- I decided I'd rather
> have two DVDs to store than 10 CDs. I aborted the process after it had
> created the images but before it started writing CDs. It let me start over
> and created DVDs on an external USB drive after I figured out how to disable
> the internal CD drive.
>
> -Paul Randall
>
> "hamiltoncruiser" <gerry.l...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1187398762.556728.210620@q4g2000prc.googlegro ups.com...
>
> >I expected my HP laptop to tell me to make recovery discs soon after
> > turning it on.
>
> > It didn't so I went to Backup and am in the process of creating backup/
> > recovery discs. I'm on DVD #3 so far.
>
> > But I screwed up...I initially tried to do the backup to the D drive
> > which I think is the recovery drive...it filled up, told me backup
> > couldn't finish and D drive is low on space. 7.07 MB free of 8.08 GB
>
> > what should I do about D?? Anything? I don't know how full it was
> > before I tried the backup.
>
> > ...Lisa
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