Recovery Disks with Vista

[Wayne]

We recently bought an HP notebook with Vista. We supposedly can make
recovery disks. I started making the disks with CD's. It burned the first
one, then all the subsequent CD's had verification errors.

Then I read that we really should use DVD+R for recovery disks. One
question is, how do I get it to agree to start over using DVD? And is DVD+R
the way to go for this?

I am open to any suggestions.

HP Pavilion tx 1115nr Entertainment Notebook PC
Vista Home Premium
--
Wayne

 

[Ryka]

After trying with numerous brands of DVD+Rs and mistakes, I gave up and
spent the $15 to have HP send me the Recovery Discs.



"Wayne" <Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E3D95E0A-6D0F-4A38-AD4B-328F2D0D5652@microsoft.com...
> We recently bought an HP notebook with Vista. We supposedly can make
> recovery disks. I started making the disks with CD's. It burned the
> first
> one, then all the subsequent CD's had verification errors.
>
> Then I read that we really should use DVD+R for recovery disks. One
> question is, how do I get it to agree to start over using DVD? And is
> DVD+R
> the way to go for this?
>
> I am open to any suggestions.
>
> HP Pavilion tx 1115nr Entertainment Notebook PC
> Vista Home Premium
> --
> Wayne

 

[Alias]

Ryka wrote:
> After trying with numerous brands of DVD+Rs and mistakes, I gave up and
> spent the $15 to have HP send me the Recovery Discs.

Cheap? Does it include a trial Norton or McAffee or any other "goodies"?

Alias
>
>
>
> "Wayne" <Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E3D95E0A-6D0F-4A38-AD4B-328F2D0D5652@microsoft.com...
>> We recently bought an HP notebook with Vista. We supposedly can make
>> recovery disks. I started making the disks with CD's. It burned the
>> first
>> one, then all the subsequent CD's had verification errors.
>>
>> Then I read that we really should use DVD+R for recovery disks. One
>> question is, how do I get it to agree to start over using DVD? And is
>> DVD+R
>> the way to go for this?
>>
>> I am open to any suggestions.
>>
>> HP Pavilion tx 1115nr Entertainment Notebook PC
>> Vista Home Premium
>> --
>> Wayne
>

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Contact HP for assistance with this. The disc creation utility belongs to
them, not to Vista.

Consider using a different brand of discs.


"Wayne" <Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E3D95E0A-6D0F-4A38-AD4B-328F2D0D5652@microsoft.com...
> We recently bought an HP notebook with Vista. We supposedly can make
> recovery disks. I started making the disks with CD's. It burned the
> first
> one, then all the subsequent CD's had verification errors.
>
> Then I read that we really should use DVD+R for recovery disks. One
> question is, how do I get it to agree to start over using DVD? And is
> DVD+R
> the way to go for this?
>
> I am open to any suggestions.
>
> HP Pavilion tx 1115nr Entertainment Notebook PC
> Vista Home Premium
> --
> Wayne

 

[Ryka]

I tried many different brands of DVD+Rs and none of them worked - I just
gave in and sent $15 to HP and had them send me the Recovery Discs.



"Wayne" <Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E3D95E0A-6D0F-4A38-AD4B-328F2D0D5652@microsoft.com...
> We recently bought an HP notebook with Vista. We supposedly can make
> recovery disks. I started making the disks with CD's. It burned the
> first
> one, then all the subsequent CD's had verification errors.
>
> Then I read that we really should use DVD+R for recovery disks. One
> question is, how do I get it to agree to start over using DVD? And is
> DVD+R
> the way to go for this?
>
> I am open to any suggestions.
>
> HP Pavilion tx 1115nr Entertainment Notebook PC
> Vista Home Premium
> --
> Wayne