I'm not even sure I made the disk for the Gateway one. I know when I got the Sony I never made one because it said it needed like 10 CDs and at the time I didn't have that many, lol. Then when the hard drive crashed on it I couldn't make one and found out it was the only model Sony made that didn't come with a premade disk. The only way to get one was to make it yourself.
But I found a work around at the time. The problem at the time ended up being that Windows crashed (not the actual drive) so I couldn't boot up to get to the recovery portion. Once I found the work around to access the partition and reinstall Windows I was fine.
This is beyond that. The physical drives are dying. Sigh. I'm going to keep using this one until they are in the grave I guess or until I can get new drives and afford Windows 7.
And I probably should look online for some videos or something. It's probably a lot easier than I think.
I am thinking that they must have made a recovery disk for this computer and included it in the packaging it's just with the move and everything I have no clue where I might have put it. I had all the computer stuff together in several boxes. I just cleaned the garage the other day and put them all to one side. I guess I should go back through them disk by disk to see if it's in there. That would save me some worry and my husband would probably go out this week and get the hard drive without comment.
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Date: 22 May 2011 06:48 pm (UTC)I know when I got the Sony I never made one because it said it needed like 10 CDs and at the time I didn't have that many, lol. Then when the hard drive crashed on it I couldn't make one and found out it was the only model Sony made that didn't come with a premade disk. The only way to get one was to make it yourself.
But I found a work around at the time. The problem at the time ended up being that Windows crashed (not the actual drive) so I couldn't boot up to get to the recovery portion. Once I found the work around to access the partition and reinstall Windows I was fine.
This is beyond that. The physical drives are dying. Sigh. I'm going to keep using this one until they are in the grave I guess or until I can get new drives and afford Windows 7.
And I probably should look online for some videos or something. It's probably a lot easier than I think.
I am thinking that they must have made a recovery disk for this computer and included it in the packaging it's just with the move and everything I have no clue where I might have put it. I had all the computer stuff together in several boxes. I just cleaned the garage the other day and put them all to one side. I guess I should go back through them disk by disk to see if it's in there. That would save me some worry and my husband would probably go out this week and get the hard drive without comment.