compaq presario cq56

[jacksprat16]

a friend has just bought this model and the sales guy said do a back up of the system as soon as you start it up as it doesn't have a o s back up ,but looking at the disc drives it has "d" as recovery disc 15.3mb (windows 7)
this is for if the o.s. fails surely ?

[AlBags]

Isn't there a free facility programme available in the installed programmes? Look through them all.

[VHG]

After using the laptop for a day or two he will probably get a window up asking him to make a recovery DVD. This will normally fill up 2 or 3 DVDs so make sure he has some to hand.

The D drive may be a backup partition, but if the whole hard disk fails he will lose that partition.

If he has the backup DVDs he has made he can reinstall Windows if he buys a brand new empty hard disk.

[jacksprat16]

thanks vhg
will inform him of this
cheers

[deggers316]

jack
although it states you can use dvd's to do a back up.you cant its got to be a separate hard drive internally or externally. there is a lot if info on this if you google it, good luck

[trish432]

A window normally pops up when you first set up computer asking you to make back up discs.
If not go into programs HP/Compaq and see if there`s a program to back up and restore.
I`ve found that many times the back up discs brought to me by friends don`t work, maybe not burned properly.
With HP you can also use F11 at startup to restore factory settings, without using the discs.
That`s as long as D drive is still there and the recovery files are intact.