[ale] [OT] Help with burning recovery disks from HP

[Robert Reese~]

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:56:18 -0500
> Stephen Cristol <stephen at bee.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to help someone restore an HP Vista box to what passes
>> for functionality. I don't really know what happened, but the box
>> won't boot (even in safe mode) and won't "recover." I used a live
>> CD to boot the box and can mount the recovery partition.
>>
>> Is there a way to use data from the boot partition to burn the
>> recovery CD?
>>
>
> The most recent HP systems I have seen included the ability to burn
> to DVD, but only once, and only before you use the restore
> partition.

Advanced users can find simple instructions online to re-enable the burning of 
the recovery disks.  And, of course, once the system is recovered via the disks 
the ability to make another set presents itself.


> But, unless there is an ISO image present, burning that recovery
> partition to any media is, while probably possible, not something
> that I know of anyone who knows how to do it.  It's probably system-
> dependent, too, the way OEMs do things these days.

The recovery stuff is system dependent, which is why we need the model number.  
But alas there is no ISO  image to burn.

Cheers,
Robert~