On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:36:54 -0700, "Charles W Davis"
<Anthemwebs@lvcoxmail.com> wrote:
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>On start up, immediately press F11. This will allow the reinstallation of
>the system from the D: Recovery partition if it hasn't been corrupted.
>Otherwise, use the System Recovery disks that you burned to DVD when you
>first started up the computer. You did do that didn't you? If not, HP will
>be glad to sell you as set, which I have heard costs $10 each.
>
>You shouldn't lose all of your data,[/color]

If I understand what you're saying, this is exactly what HP had
me do the last two times, and it DOES lose all my data. It
formats the entire hard drive and does a clean install, just like
it came from the factory--with all my data and programs gone.
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> but if you have a handy friend that can
>remove the hard drive and connect it to another computer to remove the
>files, I would advise that.[/color]

I think you're suggesting installing my primary drive as a slave
drive on a second PC, which would allow me to read the data and
copy it elsewhere, right? I actually have another PC I could use
for this purpose. The problem is that this is a laptop, and I
don't think I want to go opening it up to remove the hard drive.

Alternatively, is there a way to connect the two PCs so that I
would have access to my laptop files?
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>Not a different license.[/color]

???

Thanks.

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Keith
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Keith