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re: reinstalling recovery disk Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 2:52 pm Posted by Mark (1799 messages posted) From what I can gather you ar trying to use the HP recovery disk. All you need to do is insert the disk and boot the laptop. You should get a message to press any key in the next 20 secs so that it can boot off the CD-ROM otherwise it will boot off the current OS. If the message does not appear then you will need to change the order of booting by going into BIOS. This can be done by tapping either F2, F5, F8 or even Delete key, while it is beginning to boot, it depends on your system. You will get the BIOS screen and there locate and change the booting order. Save and exit. The computer will now boot off your Recovery disk and reinstall your OS to the initial state. Be aware that when you use the disk, it will restore the original OS and wipe out everything that you currently have installed. Consequently, you will need to reinstall all your Windows Updates and all the programs that you had installed after you acquired the laptop. You will also need to save all your data before proceeding with the Recovery disk. On Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 11:07 am, Anne_2 wrote: >I tried to download HP's user guide and this msg came up instead. >"Can't find script engine "JScript" for script "E"/HP/Support/HPGuide/UserGuide.js". >Now I wonder if I will be able to install the recovery disk. >This is strange indeed. >If only I could afford to buy another computer and send this one into orbit.... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: reinstalling recovery disk Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 3:49 pm Posted by Anne_2 (277 messages posted) My computer is not a laptop. No msg comes up to press any key - only the msg re script engine I sent the forum. I realize I have to save and download everything that's necessary but it's a home computer so nothing really important needs to be saved and maybe then I can download Norton that will work. I am defragging right now and it is taking a long time because I had trouble doing it before. On Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 2:52 pm, Mark wrote: >From what I can gather you ar trying to use the HP recovery disk. All you need to >do is insert the disk and boot the laptop. You should get a message to press any >key in the next 20 secs so that it can boot off the CD-ROM otherwise it will boot >off the current OS. If the message does not appear then you will need to change the >order of booting by going into BIOS. This can be done by tapping either F2, F5, F8 >or even Delete key, while it is beginning to boot, it depends on your system. You >will get the BIOS screen and there locate and change the booting order. Save and >exit. The computer will now boot off your Recovery disk and reinstall your OS to >the initial state. >Be aware that when you use the disk, it will restore the original OS and wipe out >everything that you currently have installed. Consequently, you will need to reinstall >all your Windows Updates and all the programs that you had installed after you acquired >the laptop. You will also need to save all your data before proceeding with the Recovery >disk. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: reinstalling recovery disk Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 5:03 pm Posted by iakopa (13 messages posted) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript did you check out your version of java in control panel [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: reinstalling recovery disk Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 6:43 pm Posted by Anne_2 (277 messages posted) I have the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (Build 1.5.0_06-b05) Can't download the updates. On Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 5:03 pm, iakopa wrote: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript did you check out your version of java in control >panel [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: reinstalling recovery disk Sunday, August 20, 2006 at 4:06 pm Posted by Mark (1799 messages posted) See if running a repair using the steps as outlined at this site will solve your problem. On Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 3:49 pm, Anne_2 wrote: >My computer is not a laptop. No msg comes up to press any key - only the msg re >script engine I sent the forum. I realize I have to save and download everything >that's necessary but it's a home computer so nothing really important needs to be >saved and maybe then I can download Norton that will work. I am defragging right >now and it is taking a long time because I had trouble doing it before. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum