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Recovery Cd vs Quickrestore : both wipe C drive ?
Neighbor is having issues with his presario 5200. The PC takes about 15
minutes to get to a desktop and after picking thru registry/ccleaner/adaware etc, I want to restore his C drive to windows factory settings from the D partition. I haven't messed with Compaq recovery CD's in a lot of years and need to know: does the recovery just "fix" the windows folders ? i.e. ... can he leave all of his mp3's, jpg's etc on there and still have them after the recovery ? Or will the c partition be wiped/reformatted with the recovery CD too? I have a presario that's same model and I have recovery and quickrestore CD's ( that I ordered when new ).but never used either. If he doesn't need to backup it would be a 45 minute job to restore from his D partition. If I have to back it all up to another drive then restore his stuff, it will be a nuisance and I'm trying to make it easy on myself. |
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Recovery Cd vs Quickrestore : both wipe C drive ?
Usually with a Q-Restore CD, it re-formats the drive, then copies the
image off the cd that matches to model # of your computer. It also makes a second partition for the quick restore image on the HD, though newer Compaq's (I'm not sure) may have an option to let you recover the data. ~~Mitch |
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