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Reformating Hard Drive and reinstalling Vista without a disk (527 Views)
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Reformating Hard Drive and reinstalling Vista without a disk

‎12-13-2010 12:42 PM

I have an HP Pavilion Elite m 9040N running Vista Home Premium that was suppied by HP.  I do not have a disk with Vista on it.  I want to reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS.  Any suggestions on what I need to do?  Thanks, Steve

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‎12-13-2010 01:17 PM - edited ‎12-13-2010 01:19 PM

Steve,

 

Burn a set of the HP Recovery Disks. You will need three (3) DVD+Rs.  Do not use r/w media.  Backup your data.

 

Performing a HP System Recovery with VISTA

Creating a Recovery Disk Set in VISTA

 

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Re: Reformating Hard Drive and reinstalling Vista without a disk

‎05-30-2012 09:26 AM

How to Reformat Hard Drive and reinstall Vista without a disk

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Re: Reformating Hard Drive and reinstalling Vista without a disk

‎05-30-2012 03:13 PM

If your question is really "How to Reformat Hard Drive and reinstall Vista without a disk" then why not read the reply Big_Dave made (above). It has the answers. I will add that HP does prefer that you use DVD+R media.

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