On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:26:27 -0600, Keith Russell
<dtov-hb8l@xemaps.com> wrote:
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>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.[/color]

You are right. Charles missed that one BIG time.
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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.[/color]

USB Hard drive enclosures are cheap... can be had for about $20.
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>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.
>
>--
>Keith[/color]