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From: Ben Myers on 13 Jun 2010 10:09
"Rich" <dickwyll(a)dickwyll.cnc.net> wrote in message news:4a08c367-2893-4e56-af25-8633861e17d8(a)20g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
> Have an HP Pavilion that was acting up so I attempted to format the
> hard drive using recovery disks that I had made when I got it.
> Problem is that after the first disk, the PC would not read disk 2.
> I
> tried many, many times after which it told me to put in disk 3. It
> ran through that and asked for disk 1 again. This time though, it
> would not read it. I am stuck.

See http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bph07143

> Turns out though that I did a back up of the D:/ partition that
> contains the system.sav. I have it on an external hard drive. How
> can I use it to reformat and restore the PC? Any help would be
> appreciated. I am a moderately capable computer user, so if it is
> beyond me, please let me know as well.

System.sav is one of the registry backup files and shouldn't be used once the
drive has been formatted.

Ben
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