Any way to load just programs from recovery disks??

Hi all!

Just purchased dv8000 from hp. Of course, I made the recovery disks
(dvd) first thing, then did a clean install of the os (xp) since I
didn't want the aol, wild tangent, microsoft works, money, rhapsody,
etc. crap on the system.
Os install was from disk purchased with system. Got the drivers from
the hp website, now I am trying to re-install some of the software
programs that came with the system, hp photosmart premier, sonic
digital media studio, sonic archive, etc.
Recovery disks apparantly dont allow install of individual components,
just a complete duplicate setup, including the software I was trying
to lose.
Any suggestions or ways to access the info on the recovery disks???
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Clicker wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Just purchased dv8000 from hp. Of course, I made the recovery disks
> (dvd) first thing, then did a clean install of the os (xp) since I
> didn't want the aol, wild tangent, microsoft works, money, rhapsody,
> etc. crap on the system.
> Os install was from disk purchased with system. Got the drivers from
> the hp website, now I am trying to re-install some of the software
> programs that came with the system, hp photosmart premier, sonic
> digital media studio, sonic archive, etc.
> Recovery disks apparantly dont allow install of individual components,
> just a complete duplicate setup, including the software I was trying
> to lose.
> Any suggestions or ways to access the info on the recovery disks???
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I've been trying to something like this for six months. Even if you use
it to install the OS you have to start from the begining and re-install
everything. Talke to the help-less desk for hours to no avail. The web
chat line at least are maned by folks who know what a computer is. You
can't make any partitions and everytime one of the you get an error on
any of the system files ntldr, hal.dll ntoskrnl.exe you have to retore
everything wipping out all of you data. I had to restore 40 gigs of
photo 4 times since christmas.

I would be happy if I could get to a point were I could do a repair or
re-install of the OS. The advance functio that says that it will do
this is like f10 on boot-up. it does not work. Puts you in an endless
loop rebooting the machine bringing up the same begining panel and when
you pick the advanced option it reboots again.

Between that and the boot-up F10 that requires you to insert the
recovery disk if any thing goes wrong regardless of how minor you have
to go throught the entire 14-16 hour process of rebuilding from
scratch.

So, make sure that you keep a mirror image of you entire hard drive on
an external drive becuase you are going to need it.

At least thats the way my a1250a works. Make sure that before you start
you unplug all of your devices and remove any memory that you've
installed or after a few hours into the process it will crash with a
blue screen error message that means nothing.

They willl all have to be re-installed. The only user data that the
friggin' pice of crap has retained for me has been the shortcuts on the
desk top. Of course since all of my apps were wiped they don't work.

It seems that it was written for a blank install at the factory and
that's the one and only thing that it does. So, the recovery scheme os
a crok and it does not recover it does a repartition and clean intall
every time

Been there at least a half dozen times since this nightmare began at
christmas. I estimate that 90% or more of the time I've spent on the
pice of crap has been rebuilding from scratch and reloading my apps and
data.

Real gret product and even worse support. Buy a HP, never again!

Jim wrote:
> Clicker wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Just purchased dv8000 from hp. Of course, I made the recovery disks
> > (dvd) first thing, then did a clean install of the os (xp) since I
> > didn't want the aol, wild tangent, microsoft works, money, rhapsody,
> > etc. crap on the system.
> > Os install was from disk purchased with system. Got the drivers from
> > the hp website, now I am trying to re-install some of the software
> > programs that came with the system, hp photosmart premier, sonic
> > digital media studio, sonic archive, etc.
> > Recovery disks apparantly dont allow install of individual components,
> > just a complete duplicate setup, including the software I was trying
> > to lose.
> > Any suggestions or ways to access the info on the recovery disks???
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> I've been trying to something like this for six months. Even if you use
> it to install the OS you have to start from the begining and re-install
> everything. Talke to the help-less desk for hours to no avail. The web
> chat line at least are maned by folks who know what a computer is. You
> can't make any partitions and everytime one of the you get an error on
> any of the system files ntldr, hal.dll ntoskrnl.exe you have to retore
> everything wipping out all of you data. I had to restore 40 gigs of
> photo 4 times since christmas.
>
> I would be happy if I could get to a point were I could do a repair or
> re-install of the OS. The advance functio that says that it will do
> this is like f10 on boot-up. it does not work. Puts you in an endless
> loop rebooting the machine bringing up the same begining panel and when
> you pick the advanced option it reboots again.
>
> Between that and the boot-up F10 that requires you to insert the
> recovery disk if any thing goes wrong regardless of how minor you have
> to go throught the entire 14-16 hour process of rebuilding from
> scratch.
>
> So, make sure that you keep a mirror image of you entire hard drive on
> an external drive becuase you are going to need it.
>
> At least thats the way my a1250a works. Make sure that before you start
> you unplug all of your devices and remove any memory that you've
> installed or after a few hours into the process it will crash with a
> blue screen error message that means nothing.
>
> They willl all have to be re-installed. The only user data that the
> friggin' pice of crap has retained for me has been the shortcuts on the
> desk top. Of course since all of my apps were wiped they don't work.
>
> It seems that it was written for a blank install at the factory and
> that's the one and only thing that it does. So, the recovery scheme os
> a crok and it does not recover it does a repartition and clean intall
> every time
>
> Been there at least a half dozen times since this nightmare began at
> christmas. I estimate that 90% or more of the time I've spent on the
> pice of crap has been rebuilding from scratch and reloading my apps and
> data.
>
> Real gret product and even worse support. Buy a HP, never again!

At least they gave you a OS disk. I could never even get them to do
that for me. All they would do is send the recovery disk.So, you're
doing better than most.


Also, I agree with you about all the crap that they force you to load.
After I get the reload and repartition process done I using spent 1/2
hour in add/remove programs removing most of what I just spent 8 or
more hours loading.

Jim -

Thanks for the feedback.

By the way, I purchased the OS disk with the computer ($10 extra) as I
figured that I would want to do a clean install (without all the aol/
internet signup/ rhapsody/ trial software crap).

I was just hoping that I would be able to load on selectively some of
the software, but if not, its prob not that much of a loss.

Sorry to hear about your hp experience. I've always kept my
expectations low when it comes to customer support and figured that I
would have to do whatever needed to be done myself. That's why these
groups are such a great resource!

Anyway, thought I'd share that.

By the way #2, I know what you are talking about. Couple of systems
ago, I had to wipe/ reformat/ load OS and software EIGHT times before
I got the D*mned thing to work the way I wanted. Chalk it up to
experience!

TTFN!

I have somewhat the same problem, except, that it came about when I
transferd a HP 6635 Hard Drive to a new home built computer.

Not only did it take 14 hours t get it some what back to where it was before
the "transplant!" I still had to spend more reinstalling applications when
the DLL got messed up.

Lucky for me those were not HP applications, but, there is one application
that came with the computer that I would like to get back. Microsoft Works.

The problem now is that the recoverery disk won't work since (as far as it
it concern) the computer is no longer a HP product. So, I don't even get a
welcome screen.

However, I have notice on the CD that suppose to have the applications on
it, a lot of ZIP files.

Could not one of them be Microsoft Works?

And if so can't it be directly extracted?

Or is this HP and the 6635 way of saying "that is what you get for not
upgrading to another HP" :-)