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From: Gene E. Bloch on 30 Jun 2010 19:57 On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:58:41 -0700, AJL wrote: > "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. Well, the manufacturer sent me a restore DVD for an Acer netbook that didn't have an optical drive. BTW, the disk was free, and they didn't hassle me at all when I called. Please - please - explain to me how my not having a drive prevents a manufacturer from sending me a restore DVD :-) > 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... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
From: AJL on 30 Jun 2010 20:32 "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me(a)other.invalid> wrote: >Well, the manufacturer sent me a restore DVD for an Acer netbook that >didn't have an optical drive. BTW, the disk was free, and they didn't >hassle me at all when I called. Heck Asus *included* the recovery DVD in the new packaging of both my Eee PC netbooks that have no internal DVD drive to run them on. And of course my full size Acer laptops came with *no* recovery DVD even though they *do have* an internal DVD drive. Go figure. In the past when I had an HP laptop and I had them send me a recovery disk they charged me $10 for it. I like the Asus way the best... ;)
From: BillW50 on 30 Jun 2010 23:21 AJL wrote on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:40:33 -0700: > 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. Ok >> 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... ;) Xandros doesn't recognize it or the BIOS doesn't? If the latter, Xandros probably will never see it unless the BIOS can. If the BIOS can see it, then you should be able to reinstall Xandros through the drive anyway. You can tell if the BIOS sees it by hitting the ESC key before Linux boots up. That kicks in the boot menu. And it will show up in the list if the BIOS sees it. > My XP powered Eee PC 1000HD recognizes the slimline drive just fine so > no problem there. Oh good deal 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... Yes I turned off Windows updates on one computer over a year ago. Lots of people said this was a bad idea. But I did it as a test and it worked so well, I later stopped all Windows updates on 6 other computers a few months later. And I haven't had any problems yet. If one ever does, I keep them all isolated anyway from each other. And no one system totally going down means nothing to me. As the rest could quickly carry the load anyway. So I am starting to think that Windows updates are far more scarier than viruses themselves. As I haven't seen any viruses myself before or after. But I have seen Windows updates screw up one's computer. The good news is the next one usually fixes it. But the next one later breaks it again. And the cycle repeats. <sigh> -- 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: BillW50 on 30 Jun 2010 23:31 Gene E. Bloch wrote on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:13:36 -0700: [...] > The other computers here have software to burn recovery DVDs, but I had to > supply my own blanks :-) > > Two of them are not much good anyway - the computers stated out with > Windows Vista and I upgraded them to Win 7, so I'm not eager to recover to > factory status. > > I'll rely on backups - which I don't do often enough. Of course :-) Well I personally value backups far superior to the recovery disc anyway. As once you have backups, the recovery disc is only good for if you want to sell or give your computer away anyway. As why would you want a system without your favorite applications and settings for? And in your case, a totally different OS to boot. ;-) -- 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: AJL on 1 Jul 2010 01:01
"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me(a)other.invalid> wrote: >The other computers here have software to burn recovery DVDs, but I had to >supply my own blanks :-) My 2 Acers also came with built in software to make recovery disks and nagged until you did (or turned off the nag) which seemed odd to me because both laptops have recovery partitions. However I usually get rid of the recovery software and use the partition for more drive space so always made the disks. My older Acer can only burn CDs (although it reads DVDs) so it took 7 CDs for the 'recovery disk'... >Two of them are not much good anyway - the computers stated out with >Windows Vista and I upgraded them to Win 7, so I'm not eager to recover to >factory status. *My theory* is that a laptop works best with the software that was matched to and originally came installed on it. And AJL's theory of laptops #2 is that the original factory installation as restored by a recovery disk works faster and better than that OS with a years worth of updates. The theory certainly works out on this netbook... ;) |