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From: AJL on 30 Jun 2010 14:58 "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me(a)other.invalid> wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:03:11 -0500, felmon wrote: > >> greets! >> >> just got a Samsung N150 Plus netbook with Windows 7 Starter. >> >> I wanted to back up the Windows recovery partition to be able to re- >> install it if it gets corrupted or if I remove it. >> >> what is a good way to back it up with an eye on certainty and ease of >> reinstallation? >> >> the N150 doesn't have a dvd. I suppose I could purchase an external one >> and will do so if that is necessary or if other methods are terribly >> complex or uncertain but would rather avoid that. >> >> I have tried googling around but so far I haven't stumbled on anything >> useful. >> >> felmon > >Ask the manufacturer to send you a restore disc. Won't work since he has no external DVD reader/writer (the netbook has none internally). But as I said, if he did he could make his own recovery disk. To the OP: I recently restored my Eee PC netbook (also no internal DVD but which came with a recovery DVD disk) and besides needing the external DVD writer for that, I needed it to reinstall all my old apps, which of course came on CD/DVDs... ;) Get the DVD writer, you won't be sorry...
From: BillW50 on 30 Jun 2010 15:11 AJL wrote on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:58:41 -0700: > "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me(a)other.invalid> wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:03:11 -0500, felmon wrote: >> >>> greets! >>> >>> just got a Samsung N150 Plus netbook with Windows 7 Starter. >>> >>> I wanted to back up the Windows recovery partition to be able to re- >>> install it if it gets corrupted or if I remove it. >>> >>> what is a good way to back it up with an eye on certainty and ease of >>> reinstallation? >>> >>> the N150 doesn't have a dvd. I suppose I could purchase an external one >>> and will do so if that is necessary or if other methods are terribly >>> complex or uncertain but would rather avoid that. >>> >>> I have tried googling around but so far I haven't stumbled on anything >>> useful. >>> >>> felmon >> Ask the manufacturer to send you a restore disc. > > Won't work since he has no external DVD reader/writer (the netbook has > none internally). But as I said, if he did he could make his own > recovery disk. > > To the OP: I recently restored my Eee PC netbook (also no internal DVD > but which came with a recovery DVD disk) and besides needing the > external DVD writer for that, I needed it to reinstall all my old > apps, which of course came on CD/DVDs... ;) > > Get the DVD writer, you won't be sorry... Hello AJL! Did you know that Asus Xandros recovery DVD (or was it your Windows machine one?) can be used in another computer with a drive and it can create the recovery on a flash drive? I believe it needs to be at least 2GB in size. There are ways to get by without an external DVD drive. But some of them requires a lot of work to get say Windows to install from a flash drive. But it can be done. But I do agree, getting an external DVD drive really does make things as easy as it gets. Yes I have a few of them myself. -- Bill 2 Asus EEE PC 7014G ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 7028G ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2/SP3 ~ Xandros Linux
From: kevpan815 on 30 Jun 2010 17:39 REFORMAT YOUR COMPUTER AND INSTALL OPEN SOURCE LINUX UBUNTU! JUST FYI! THREAD CLOSED!
From: AJL on 30 Jun 2010 18:12 <kevpan815(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >REFORMAT YOUR COMPUTER AND INSTALL OPEN SOURCE LINUX UBUNTU! JUST FYI! >THREAD CLOSED! Whoopp, Whoop, Whoop, Troll alert Troll alert...thread closed.
From: AJL on 30 Jun 2010 18:40
BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >Hello AJL! Did you know that Asus Xandros recovery DVD (or was it your >Windows machine one?) can be used in another computer with a drive and >it can create the recovery on a flash drive? I believe it needs to be at >least 2GB in size. Hello Bill, yes I think I remember you giving that info here awhile back. >There are ways to get by without an external DVD drive. And that may become necessary someday for my Xandros powered Eee PC 2G Surf netbook. It won't recognize my newer HP slimline external DVD drive. And I've never been able to find a driver to get it to work. But it still recognizes my several year old monster sized externally powered HP DVD drive so I'm OK for now... ;) My XP powered Eee PC 1000HD recognizes the slimline drive just fine so no problem there. The reason I used the recovery disk on my 1000HD is that with all the updates it seemed to be getting somewhat sluggish. After the recovery it is back to its old snappy self. Quite a noticeable difference. So this time I've turned off all the OS update stuff (apps too) and will just use it that way awhile and see what happens... =8-O I think you do that on one or more of your laptops also IIRC... |