Hey, I have a Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2. And I want to reset it to factory settings so that EVERYTHING is gone.. And what I mean is like when you first buy your computer, there is nothing downloaded besides what you start out with… Anyone know how I can do this? Also, my PC didn’t come with recovery disks’, and I was wondering if I can burn the recovery disk onto a CD. If you need any other questions, please Email me.

Thanks,
Danny

Hi right now I am running on windows 7 home premium. I was running on windows vista home premium but then upgraded. I made my recovery disks right after I upgraded to windows 7. I use a Toshiba A505. What happened was I had gotten my laptop back from the best buy service center and everything was working fine, I bought the windows 7 upgrade and installed it before this I made my 2 recovery disks because I used the dual layer but I was not able to make my application and drivers disk. After this I decided to upgrade to windows 7 anyway. I backed up all data and completed the upgrade. After this I though everything was working fine but it wasn’t. I Looked in my event viewer and had 600 error messages. I talked to the lady at bestbuy and she told me to make brand new recovery disks and then use those to downgrade to windows vista then upgrade to windows 7. So I made my disks but when I go to the os restore it asks for the system image which is the last disk and I put that it but it does not recognize it. Please help me

I have a 2008 compaq laptop, we have 3 different user accounts on it. the administer account says "the user profile service failed the logon, user profile cannot be loaded" ; it is windows vista & you have to create recovery disks when you first access the computer, i didnt know you had to do that; so now we dont have a recovery disk. can anyone tell me what is going on , or what i can do to fix it ?

Well pretty much overnight my computer has crashed and I have been unable to load any pages except black pages and blue pages.

I want to restore the factory settings on my Inspiron 531 Desktop (Vista). I followed the instructions on Dell’s website by pushing F8 at startup, and the Advanced Boot Options did appear, but "Repair your Computer" was not an option on that list. What now?

Incidentally, these are the options I was given:

Safe Mode

Safe Mode with Networking

Safe Mode with Command Prompt

Enable Boot Logging

Enable low-resolution video (640×480)

Last known Good Configuration (advanced)

Directory Services Restore Mode

Debugging Mode

Disable automatic restart on system failure

Disable Driver Signature Enforcement

Start Windows Normally

I have tried all these buttons but it simply leads to an all black page for hours and does absolutely nothing. I know that I need the recovery disks but I don’t believe my computer ever came with it. After looking on Dell’s Support page I have been unable to download any recovery disks and could not get help.

So does anyone have any Ideas/Advice/Help for my problem?
Before I take it down to my local computer guy, who will charge me an arm and a leg…..

I called the tech department and since it was out of warranty, all they could do was send me the recovery disks. I installed the recovery disk, then when I inserted the first of 5 disks to restore the devices/drivers, I got an error message stating:
error copying file D:\RECOVERY\BKD021A.IM2.Error 23ata error (cyclic

redundancy check).

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My disks loaded, but I am missing lots of stuff - like sound, wireless capability, ability to play DVDs etc. I tried reloading it and now it just keeps recycling through the restoration cycle, but I cannot sign on to Windows. Can anyone help? I can’t believe that Lenovo doesn’t have better service than this.
My OS is Windows XP and the model number is 8922-2FU (3000 serious laptop) Hope this helps!

my grandpa recently got an HP Pavilion Elite m9340-f. It didn’t come with a copy of windows vista home premium (service pack 1) or any type of recovery disk. I believe that there is a recovery partition, but how would we retrieve the OS once the hard drive eventually fails? you can’t economically get data off of a failed hard drive, and the PC didn’t come with any OS or recovery disks, so wouldn’t that mean he’d have to buy a new OS once the hard drive eventually fails?

Thank you

I have a Dell inspiron i1545 laptop and i would like to create recovery disk/s the computer is using windows vista home premium Service pack 2 32 bit operating system. I would like to know what program to use to make the recovery disk. I have been looking at almost all the programs on the computer and the only thing that i see is the Backup and Restore application in the Backup and Restore center. Not for creating any sort of recovery disk. Any information is appreciated.

I have another computer A Hp compaq CQ60-615DX Laptop and i already created the recovery disks for the computer it only took 3 since i used a DVD+R so it took less disks to create. The thing is there was a program for me to use but i can’t find a Recovery Program for my dell computer in the list applications again any information is highly appreciated.

Ok, first let me say what happened. It was working fine before I reinstalled windows service pack 2 and the driver recovery disks, cause my computer got the blue screen of death. Now everything is working but the cd rom/dvd drive. I checked the properties of the drive d and it said that this device is working. But its not the only dvd that will play is the driver recovery disk. I even tried to play the recovery disk for windows and all it does is make a sound like it want to go a few times then stops. On the d drive in my computer doesn’t even say there is a disk in it. One time it said that my disk needed to be formatted. Please help me if you can I have been searching the internet for 3 weeks with no help. Thanks, Jen
I tried just now to turn off the computer with the windows recovery disk in it and push r to repair. It just does the same thing sound like it wants to go several times then just stops. No error message nothing.

Here’s my story:

I have contacted HP several times by phone and email and nobody did ever gave me a solution. Windows Vista Home Premium –preloaded with my pavillion sg3420la–updated itself and that update damaged and erased the recovery partition. The pavillion was recently bought, december 13, 2008, I’m in Venezuela. I never believed I was going to get such bad customer service from HP. HP told me since my pc is under warranty and its valid they would send me the recovery disks at no cost. UPS was supposed to send the disks. I’m waiting for the disks since january 11. UPS leaved a message on my answering machine with a female voice that can’t be understanded. She gave me a phone number and it’s unclear what is the phone number. I tried to listen to it over 20 times with no avail. UPS doesn’t answer the phones. There aren’t any email addresses in the website for my country. Nobody seems to be there. How come it’s possible that nobody is on UPS at 10 am or 3 pm? It seems UPS it’s making fun of people and it’s disrespectful. The tracking number z5552401 it’s incorrect and I allways get a "not available" message on the UPS website. I’m really dissapointed and upset. I’m no longer waiting for the disk. I will never make a purchase from HP again, unless they give me a free printer or any other gift.

So………did hp customer service or treated you like garbage and seemed to make fun of you? Or did they were unhelpful?

I have a sony Vaio, which never came with an installation disk.
I just had to have my western digital hard drive replaced by warranty.
My vaio recovery disks will not work this time around due to a bigger hard drive, but they did originally in 2008.
Being told motherboard may be dead, but bios runs fine.
Where can I get a windows XP installation cd, as I have a valid key code on my laptop, but sony offers no free service

I was using my Acer Aspire 5100 today when all of a sudden it shut itself off. It is now displaying the message 0200 fixed disk failure 0. From what I understand, this means that my hard disk crashed. Thankfully, my computer is still under manufacturer’s warranty (I bought it on 6/09/07 and the warranty is for a year.) so I know that they will probably replace the hard disk. But I understand that all files and "software" are probably lost. Does this mean that they’ll send my computer back sans Windows Vista and all of the basic software that the computer came with? When I bought the laptop from Circuit City they didn’t give me any recovery disks so if I have it serviced and they have to replace the hard drive, am I screwed out of Windows Vista and the basic software that came with the computer? Or will they reload any software that originally came with the computer under my warranty? Any ideas?

I made recovery disk for my windows vista home basic last year and tonight i wanna recover my laptop and when i restart my computer with the disk inside,the recovery disks dont load,help me please

When is installed Vista it asked me to create recovery DVD’s… but it also created a recovery drive on the PC.
I was wondering if it is alright to delete the data in that drive? Will it be possible to recover Vista using only the recovery disks?

So i got Windows Recovery Disks and i can use them to recover my vista along with the Vista CD? but there is a recovery disk creator thing. Im not sure? any info would help thank.

I have a laptop that I’ve been trying to restore to its factory settings which is a Compaq Armada (I don’t know which one exactly) and it runs in Windows XP. I don’t have a recovery disk (except for the Service Pack) and I’m not sure if I’m capable of burning recovery disks. Does anyone know how to make recovery disks and/or restore it to its factory settings (step-by-step guide)?

I really want to just reset the whole laptop as if it was just bought brand new. And for some odd reason, the firewall settings cannot be found.

I have a Hewlett Packard media center computer and it has a problem booting up.. I heard there is a way to reinstall windows on the "factory image" partition and not lose all the data on my harddrives.. how do I find directions to do this? I have backup recovery disks (3 DVDs I burned), not a Vista installation disk.

I have contacted HP several times by phone and email and nobody did ever gave me a solution. Windows Vista Home Premium –preloaded with my pavillion sg3420la–updated itself and that update damaged and erased the recovery partition. The pavillion was recently bought, december 13, 2008, I’m in Venezuela. I never believed I was going to get such bad customer service from HP. HP told me since my pc is under warranty and its valid they would send me the recovery disks at no cost. UPS was supposed to send the disks. I’m waiting for the disks since january 11. UPS leaved a message on my answering machine with a female voice that can’t be understanded. She gave me a phone number and it’s unclear what is the phone number. I tried to listen to it over 20 times with no avail. UPS doesn’t answer the phones. There aren’t any email addresses in the website for my country. Nobody seems to be there. How come it’s possible that nobody is on UPS at 10 am or 3 pm? It seems UPS it’s making fun of people and it’s disrespectful. The tracking number z5552401 it’s incorrect and I allways get a "not available" message on the UPS website. I’m really dissapointed and upset. I’m no longer waiting for the disk. I will never make a purchase from HP again, unless they give me a free printer or any other gift.

So………did hp customer service or treated you like garbage and seemed to make fun of you? Or did they were unhelpful?

I had Windows XP which I ran recovery disk on with no probelm. I have those. I upgraded to Windows Vista. When I try to run recovery disks, (STODD.dll) comes up to stop the process. Can anyone tell me how to override or correct this so I can make a Windows Vista Recovery disk and keep up to date.

i have windows xp service pack 1, home edition, compaq. i registry corrupted, so i cant boot in to the system. i wanna reformat the whole hard drive. i didnt make recovery disk before when i had the chance. i dont wanna try the registry fixing. i just wanna order recovery disks. suggestions?

i have asked 2 questions to help answer my problem, if you havent please read "what is wrong with my computer?" question i asked, it will quote "dell" and i give speciffic spec’s on the model and service pack i have. please read that and tell me,

1. what do recovery disks do?

2. would it help my computer?

please! please! help me and please read my other question.

I bought a laptop from Data Care center, Pune two years ago. Model hp-dv 6226.
It had windows Vista pre-installed.
For some reason I had to install win-XP SP2 in it. CD writer/DVD player, camera, battery is not functioning properly with XP.

Now I want to install Vista again. I only have 2 CDs of recovery disks out of three and I have missed the third disk.

What can be the best way to resolve this?

Getting " Primary Master hard Disk S.M.A.R.T Status Bad" when trying to Boot and it wont go past this screen, this is my in laws PC and they have had virus problems etc in the past. I think it needs a new HD but wanted to try a system recovery first. Anyone know any good sites where i can burn the System Recovery Disks?

I had a recent system crash while trying to download the service patch2 for Windows XP. It completely disabled my computers internet connections and would not enable me to make a new connection. I brought it to the "Geek Squad" whom told me I needed to run the systems restore disks as it was constantly disabling the systems components. Of course, the biggest problem with that is that I bought the computer used and did not get the recovery disks for it.

I just bought a new laptop that came with two recovery disks on DVDR. I also have a desktop with Windows XP installed. Can I use the Vista operating system on the disks to update my desktop to run Vista? Ask if you need more details.

so im making my gaming comp like next week and i have all the parts besides the operating system, but i have recovery disks from my old comp, so i was wondering when i put my computer together can i just insert my windows xp recovery disk to install xp on my comp instead of wasting 100$ on an OS?