pbb Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Hi all,Hope my question is on the correct place, if not you can give me a beating I've got an HP Pavilion 414.no PC here, with preinstalled Windows XP Home. There is a Recovery CD Creation program included, which creates a set of Recovery CDs. After creating the set of 4 CDs, I discovered however that none of the CDs is bootable! When they are not bootable, how should I recover the computer from a serious (HDD) crash?!?!?The first CD doesn't even contain any executables or documents in the root folder, just a lot of hidden files and the folders "I386" and "PRELOAD".Even worse, the root of the 1st CD contains a hidden "autorun.inf" which loads "Info.exe folder.htt 480 480", but neither "info.exe" nor "folder.htt" are located in that folder, which results in an error about not being able to find "info.exe" when trying to open the CD!Did the Recovery CD Creation process go totally wrong? The application verified each CD after creation, and said everything went allright. The application also only allows for one set of CDs to be created, so I cannot rerun the process...Hope anybody can give me some more insight...Best regards, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CuBie Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Hi all,Hope my question is on the correct place, if not you can give me a beating I've got an HP Pavilion 414.no PC here, with preinstalled Windows XP Home. There is a Recovery CD Creation program included, which creates a set of Recovery CDs. After creating the set of 4 CDs, I discovered however that none of the CDs is bootable! When they are not bootable, how should I recover the computer from a serious (HDD) crash?!?!?The first CD doesn't even contain any executables or documents in the root folder, just a lot of hidden files and the folders "I386" and "PRELOAD".Even worse, the root of the 1st CD contains a hidden "autorun.inf" which loads "Info.exe folder.htt 480 480", but neither "info.exe" nor "folder.htt" are located in that folder, which results in an error about not being able to find "info.exe" when trying to open the CD!Did the Recovery CD Creation process go totally wrong? The application verified each CD after creation, and said everything went allright. The application also only allows for one set of CDs to be created, so I cannot rerun the process...Hope anybody can give me some more insight...Best regards, PeterAre you SURE there not bootable? Have you maked sure you're BIOS settings are set to boot from cd?Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbb Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 Hi all,Hope my question is on the correct place, if not you can give me a beating I've got an HP Pavilion 414.no PC here, with preinstalled Windows XP Home. There is a Recovery CD Creation program included, which creates a set of Recovery CDs. After creating the set of 4 CDs, I discovered however that none of the CDs is bootable! When they are not bootable, how should I recover the computer from a serious (HDD) crash?!?!?The first CD doesn't even contain any executables or documents in the root folder, just a lot of hidden files and the folders "I386" and "PRELOAD".Even worse, the root of the 1st CD contains a hidden "autorun.inf" which loads "Info.exe folder.htt 480 480", but neither "info.exe" nor "folder.htt" are located in that folder, which results in an error about not being able to find "info.exe" when trying to open the CD!Did the Recovery CD Creation process go totally wrong? The application verified each CD after creation, and said everything went allright. The application also only allows for one set of CDs to be created, so I cannot rerun the process...Hope anybody can give me some more insight...Best regards, PeterAre you SURE there not bootable? Have you maked sure you're BIOS settings are set to boot from cd?Chris. Aaaargh now I am feeling stupid.... Such an advanced computer expert, and I put the CD in the wrong drive !!!! Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CuBie Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 lol np .Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike-C Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Hi all,Hope my question is on the correct place, if not you can give me a beating I've got an HP Pavilion 414.no PC here, with preinstalled Windows XP Home. There is a Recovery CD Creation program included, which creates a set of Recovery CDs. After creating the set of 4 CDs, I discovered however that none of the CDs is bootable! When they are not bootable, how should I recover the computer from a serious (HDD) crash?!?!?The first CD doesn't even contain any executables or documents in the root folder, just a lot of hidden files and the folders "I386" and "PRELOAD".Even worse, the root of the 1st CD contains a hidden "autorun.inf" which loads "Info.exe folder.htt 480 480", but neither "info.exe" nor "folder.htt" are located in that folder, which results in an error about not being able to find "info.exe" when trying to open the CD!Did the Recovery CD Creation process go totally wrong? The application verified each CD after creation, and said everything went allright. The application also only allows for one set of CDs to be created, so I cannot rerun the process...Hope anybody can give me some more insight...Best regards, PeterAre you SURE there not bootable? Have you maked sure you're BIOS settings are set to boot from cd?Chris. Aaaargh now I am feeling stupid.... Such an advanced computer expert, and I put the CD in the wrong drive !!!! Thanks anyway lol I love making mistakes like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizzly_hair Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 so funny!! i like it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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