Vista Upgrade

[Doug]

I had to do a clean install to Home Premium after I had the Vista Business
installed. The CPU is an HP M7680N (Home Media) and bisiness didn't support
that. I have lost the prgrams that came installed on CPU. Any way to get
them back? I have also lost the "Recovery"

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Doug wrote:
> I had to do a clean install to Home Premium after I had the Vista Business
> installed. The CPU is an HP M7680N (Home Media) and bisiness didn't support
> that. I have lost the prgrams that came installed on CPU. Any way to get
> them back? I have also lost the "Recovery"
>


I'm afraid that what you've done, or what help you need, is not at all
clear. Your subject line reads "Vista Upgrade," but the text of the
posts says that you replaced Vista Business with Vista Home Premium,
which is a downgrade.

Your post also says that you performed a clean installation, so I don't
know why you'd expect any other programs to remain after doing so the
whole point of a clean installation is to wipe out everything and then
start over. Reinstall any additional applications from the installation
media (CDs or DVDs) from which you originally installed them.

One additional point, for clarification: programs are not, and cannot
be, installed on a CPU. A CPU is a small (@ 1¼ x 1¼ inches)
semi-conductor chip on your motherboard inside the computer. Any
programs, when installed, would be stored on the computer's hard drive.

And what, precisely, do you me by "I have also lost the 'Rercovery'?"
Are you speaking of the hidden Recovery partition and files that HP
places on the hard drive? Surely you made the Recovery disks that HP
computers prompt you to make the first time you turn them on? If not,
how did you install Vista Home Premium?


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