Hi there,
i just received my new laptop DV9500t, and am quite happy with the item, except the fact that HP no more provide recovery disks/vista installation disks.
The system has come pre-configured with a dozen of useless applications and a partition that contains about 10gb worth of recovery material. however i do not want that as i need to format all partitions and custom partition the disk so i can have xp (75gb) as main os, vista as a test os (25gb) and opensuse (60gb).
Anyone know of a way to somehow create this setup with no installation disk for Vista? i have a create recovery tool to create some recovery disks with vista, but i dont want all the software again to be installed and would prefer to extract somehow the vista installation disk from that partition/disk.
Is there a way of doing this? Thanks in advance for ideas/replies
mike
i just received my new laptop DV9500t, and am quite happy with the item, except the fact that HP no more provide recovery disks/vista installation disks.
The system has come pre-configured with a dozen of useless applications and a partition that contains about 10gb worth of recovery material. however i do not want that as i need to format all partitions and custom partition the disk so i can have xp (75gb) as main os, vista as a test os (25gb) and opensuse (60gb).
Anyone know of a way to somehow create this setup with no installation disk for Vista? i have a create recovery tool to create some recovery disks with vista, but i dont want all the software again to be installed and would prefer to extract somehow the vista installation disk from that partition/disk.
Is there a way of doing this? Thanks in advance for ideas/replies
mike