MSN NicknameprRobert (Original Message) Sent: 12/26/2007 5:15 AM
god i'm so pissed. just to set this drive up
what a pain in the ass. had to download winpe
boot cd offa internet. install xp 2x just to
get to this picture. But a freash formated
partition for the stupid hp restore stuff
to install back on. another 5 hour wait for
stuff to find out or not if hacked.. sigh.
and i manually formated instead of quick formated.
another 15min of my life wasted. sigh. xp setup
is excrutiating compared to 98. hurry up and
wait all over again. hate to have to reboot in
the middle of whatever just to do the thingymbober
..
sigh.
but progress. seems i just needed this winpe boot cd.
sigh. hope i can get the boot menu to work the old
'f10' everyone is talking about. but still through
it all is the feeling that it is all still immaculate
and sitting there with 7gigs of junk software..
doing nothing.. and i'm like mining it out by hand.
lord o land o lifting.
format 25 gigs the hard way. 66% now. god will
it never end? well at least up to this point has
been painless. 74% seems all i do is wayt for stuff
to happyn. last 20% it seems to take forever. sigh.
watching numbers tick off. seems to be the shortcut
to instand self hypnosis.. as the mind starts grabbing
onto anything it can find to offset the boring mind
knumbing numbness of it all. at last 95%.. it's almost
over i think. damn you bill gates and you devotion to
making us wait. shell a poker game in somehow someway..
painfull to watch thesesseseseses longer and longer
setups.
sitgh.
done.
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here we are again i think. 2:30am in the morning.. and i'm running the
"hp pc system recovery" again. 20min of my life sigh. think it had a
prob with the boot.ini etc. also ran bsupdater.. which popped off no
prob .. so maybe.. just maybe i'll be looking at a working copy of
winxp hp style. god i hope it doesn't get all picky about the boot
image. sigh. gotta admit.. as a repair console this winpe.iso i found
seems to fit the bill as in terms of its effectiveness. sigh. i just
know this isn't going to work in the end. sigh. i just know it. heh.
but at least i got to watch a couple of neat progress bars go by.
sigh.
hmm. i did notice that i ran the recovery proggie from the i386 folder,
not the minint folder. prob will work out ok anyway. sigh hope it boots.
sigh.
heh. here's the next 'something'. after creating an logical partition
in a extended unpartitioned space.. didn't know i had to set the
primary partition to be the active one. sigh. maybe this is why it
didn't boot. i did this time. cross fingers.. that it works maybe.
shrug. i dunno. not like i'm doing anything illegal here. it's a $100
computer what do you want?
oh wait. maybe i have to rehide the restore partition and swap somehow
soas the logical drive becomes the boot drive. shake my head slowly at
the outlook here. just don't know if it will work or not. think it
might not matter as if afore mentioned active partition thingy works
out. and i did do the bootsectore restore as well. so maybe even the
f10 thing might work. sigh if only. then maybe might be another 20min
re restoring again!! sigh.
and it only dumps out 5gigs of software when it is done. what a gype.
time is now 2:40 in the am. sigh. don't seem to want to sleep much.
guess i find this kinda stuff interesting. plus got cbc in the am
christmas morning. so maybe a special time for me. like a power time or
something. not quite sure .. what am i supposed to be feeling? am i
happy? not really. just feel blocked migraine headachey. the ruff
curled edges. grate against my sinuses. mostly on my right side of my
face. like the world is pushing way to hard on me to succeed at what i
will never understand or possibly comprehend. all i seem to stand for
is 'f''d over.
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heh. almost killed me that time. had to boot into puppy linux just to
set the flag on the hidden hp recovery partition. this time when the
computer booted up.. the ntfs partition that i had just added as a
primary, not logical.. sigh. 3 time is the charm.. and right off the
bat i knew i had won.
the recovery partition showed up as d:. which
i knew i could hide later... but that gave me access to the recovery
software yet again. and we are looking at just as long as the last
time.. but at least now i had a receptive partition.. something that
would hold the active boot load init.. straight from the first sector
ala professional like. and i left me some 5 gig space for elive and
maybe a mini puppy linux install dunno. see how i feel. maybe 4 and 1
gig's apeice. hmmm. sounds right.
gosh this feels so good. like a baseball sinking into mitt. a satisfied
knowing of a good catch.
it is officially 3:24am in the christmas am.
ok... 3:42am.. and i'm gonna reboot this monkey!!
wish me luck sigh...
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heh, ok, guess what. on reboot got a code purple alert. what ever that
was. ran (oh yes .. again) xp home setup and was able to repair the
installed partition.
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tips:
how to make the c:restore partition go back to d: (and later hide it).
boot linux .. i used puppylinux. 2.15ced. fire up cfdisk /dev/hda..
change the type to 0x12 (compaq hidden partition).. reboot. heh. now
that you can't find it.. reboot linux. change it back to 0b (fat32) and
reboot your winpe.iso.. voila! c: is now d:, and you are left with the
secondary partition you created.
.. i don't think there are any excessive copy protection in effect
other than locating a winpe.iso to fire up the recovery prog software.
oh and of course the dance around not being able to make a logical
drive a bootable partition. also very much fun to set up using
diskpart. sigh.
cross posted at:
groups.msn.com/cheapcomputer
'kl8r/ra
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----no help---
Hello rob,
Thank you for contacting HP Total Care.
I understand from your email that you are unable to perform System
Recovery using Recovery partition HP Pavilion a700y (PJ618AV) CTO
Desktop PC as the system reports an error message..
Rob, at this moment, I recommend you to perform System Recovery using
Recovery CDs. You can contact our phone support team and can avail
Recovery CDs for your PC. I regret to inform you that we at HP E-mail
support are not authorized to ship recovery CDs.The issues related to
shipping of parts are currently addressed by our Phone Support team.
The phone number in the US and Canada is 1-800-474-6836. Business hours
are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The idea of redirecting you is not to disappoint and let you down from
our support. We are also bind by the limitations and I am sure our
phone support technicians will be happy to assist you in this regard. I
hope you can understand our limitations and scope of support.
If you need further assistance, please reply to this message and we
will be happy to assist you further.
For information on keeping your HP and Compaq products up and running,
please visit our Web site at:
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Sincerely,
Helen
HP Total Care
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