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Gateway NV 57H57u Laptop
My new laptop is nagging me to make the backup/restore disks, but it
doesn't tell me what TYPE of disks are needed for this process, or how many it will take. It does say that *during the process* it will tell you HOW many are needed, but at the same time WARNS you not to do anything to interrupt the process. What if I don't have enough disks, even if I could guess what disks will work? Can anyone help this old woman out? bj |
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*-* On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, at 17:24:59 -0500,
*-* In Article , *-* chicagofan wrote *-* About Gateway NV 57H57u Laptop My new laptop is nagging me to make the backup/restore disks, but it doesn't tell me what TYPE of disks are needed for this process, or how many it will take. It should be able to use either CDs or DVDs. My 2 1/2 year old laptop (non-Gateway), running 32-bit Vista, took 3 DVDs. I don't remember for sure, but ISTR that it said it would require 17 CDs. :-( I'm guessing that your new machine is running 64-bit Windows 7, so it will probably take 4 or 5 DVDs, or somewhere north of 20 CDs. It does say that *during the process* it will tell you HOW many are needed, but at the same time WARNS you not to do anything to interrupt the process. What if I don't have enough disks, even if I could guess what disks will work? It should tell you (and give you an option to halt the process if you don't have enough disks) at the beginning of the process, *BEFORE* it gets to the "Do Not Interrupt" part. I know mine did. Can anyone help this old woman out? Sure. Which way did you come in? :-D Ken Whiton -- FIDO: 1:132/152 InterNet: L (remove the obvious to reply) |
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On Feb 10, 5:24*pm, chicagofan wrote:
My new laptop is nagging me to make the backup/restore disks, but it doesn't tell me what TYPE of disks are needed for this process, or how many it will take. * It does say that *during the process* it will tell you HOW many are needed, but at the same time WARNS you not to do anything to interrupt the process. *What if I don't have enough disks, even if I could guess what disks will work? Can anyone help this old woman out? * bj Took me 6 DVD's to back up my old woman's Toshiba. When I bought it, CompUSA offered to do it for $20 and I would have done that but declined as I would have had to left it in the store for at least a half hour and had no other place to go in the meantime. |
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Ken Whiton wrote:
*-* chicagofan wrote *-* About Gateway NV 57H57u Laptop My new laptop is nagging me to make the backup/restore disks, but it doesn't tell me what TYPE of disks are needed for this process, or how many it will take. It should be able to use either CDs or DVDs. My 2 1/2 year old laptop (non-Gateway), running 32-bit Vista, took 3 DVDs. I don't remember for sure, but ISTR that it said it would require 17 CDs. :-( I'm guessing that your new machine is running 64-bit Windows 7, so it will probably take 4 or 5 DVDs, or somewhere north of 20 CDs. That's right 64 bit, and I've seen other estimates now of 4-5 DVD-Rs. It does say that *during the process* it will tell you HOW many are needed, but at the same time WARNS you not to do anything to interrupt the process. What if I don't have enough disks, even if I could guess what disks will work? It should tell you (and give you an option to halt the process if you don't have enough disks) at the beginning of the process, *BEFORE* it gets to the "Do Not Interrupt" part. I know mine did. That's a relief! Can anyone help this old woman out? Sure. Which way did you come in? :-D Ken Whiton LOL!!! That's what I wanted you to tell me! Thanks for the great info about your experience and DVDs used. bj |
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Frank wrote:
On Feb 10, 5:24 pm, wrote: My new laptop is nagging me to make the backup/restore disks, but it doesn't tell me what TYPE of disks are needed for this process, or how many it will take. It does say that *during the process* it will tell you HOW many are needed, but at the same time WARNS you not to do anything to interrupt the process. What if I don't have enough disks, even if I could guess what disks will work? Can anyone help this old woman out? bj Took me 6 DVD's to back up my old woman's Toshiba. When I bought it, CompUSA offered to do it for $20 and I would have done that but declined as I would have had to left it in the store for at least a half hour and had no other place to go in the meantime. LOL! I know she appreciated it, as much as I do you sharing this info with me. bj |
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*-* On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, at 21:59:03 -0500,
*-* In Article , *-* chicagofan wrote *-* About Gateway NV 57H57u Laptop Ken Whiton wrote: *-* chicagofan wrote *-* About Gateway NV 57H57u Laptop My new laptop is nagging me to make the backup/restore disks, but it doesn't tell me what TYPE of disks are needed for this process, or how many it will take. It should be able to use either CDs or DVDs. My 2 1/2 year old laptop (non-Gateway), running 32-bit Vista, took 3 DVDs. I don't remember for sure, but ISTR that it said it would require 17 CDs. :-( I'm guessing that your new machine is running 64-bit Windows 7, so it will probably take 4 or 5 DVDs, or somewhere north of 20 CDs. That's right 64 bit, and I've seen other estimates now of 4-5 DVD-Rs. 64-bit seems to be about all they're selling now, so that was an easy guess. The number of disks needed will depend in part in how much extra bloatware, aka preloaded software, they saddle you with. It does say that *during the process* it will tell you HOW many are needed, but at the same time WARNS you not to do anything to interrupt the process. What if I don't have enough disks, even if I could guess what disks will work? It should tell you (and give you an option to halt the process if you don't have enough disks) at the beginning of the process, *BEFORE* it gets to the "Do Not Interrupt" part. I know mine did. That's a relief! Once it starts actually writing to disk you don't want to interrupt it. Before that, interrupting it probably wouldn't be a problem. Can anyone help this old woman out? Sure. Which way did you come in? :-D LOL!!! That's what I wanted you to tell me! It's an old line, but it's still good for a chuckle once in a while. ;-) Thanks for the great info about your experience and DVDs used. You're welcome. There's one other thing. You should have a few extra disks on hand, in case of problems. On my laptop, the recovery disk creator writes to disk and then checks the disk for errors. 92% of the way through the check on the first disk it found an error, so that disk became a coaster, and the whole process had to start over again. After that, however, it went through the whole process with no more errors. Ken Whiton -- FIDO: 1:132/152 InterNet: L (remove the obvious to reply) |
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Ken Whiton wrote:
*-* On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, at 21:59:03 -0500, *-* In , *-* chicagofan wrote *-* About Gateway NV 57H57u Laptop Ken Whiton wrote: *-* chicagofan wrote *-* About Gateway NV 57H57u Laptop Can anyone help this old woman out? Sure. Which way did you come in? :-D LOL!!! That's what I wanted you to tell me! It's an old line, but it's still good for a chuckle once in a while. ;-) Thanks for the great info about your experience and DVDs used. You're welcome. There's one other thing. You should have a few extra disks on hand, in case of problems. On my laptop, the recovery disk creator writes to disk and then checks the disk for errors. 92% of the way through the check on the first disk it found an error, so that disk became a coaster, and the whole process had to start over again. After that, however, it went through the whole process with no more errors. Ken Whiton Thanks again, for the great info. BTW... it took 3 disks for the Gateway Factory Default Recovery disks, and 1 disk for the Drivers/Applications only disk. bj |
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