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Doyle Hudgens gave me that headline as the subject of his email tonight, in which he wrote about his experience with Windows Vista:
I recently purchased a Compaq Presario notebook with Vista Home Premium installed. One of the first things I tried to do was create the restore CD/DVD since no one supplies these any more. The creation went just fine until verify. At this point I was informed on the screen that verification failed. I tried different suppliers of both CD and DVD with same result. I contacted HP support. When I explained the error, I was then told the problem was due to a copyright conflict in Vista that prevented the copy from being created. Is this freakin’ insane or what?
Now, to HP’s credit, they sent me a restore disk free of charge, but why did Microsoft allow something like this get out in the first place? My recommendation is do not hesitate in attempting creation of the restore disks on any new Vista O/S system. If you get this failure, please be quick to contact the company of origin for assistance in acquiring recovery disks.
Given the lackluster market response to Windows Vista, wouldn’t you think that they would be less strict with restrictions?
9 Comments
Morningzoo
November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am
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November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am
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Michael Greene
June 25th, 2007
at 12:05pm
Can you elaborate with some details? By restore CD do you mean complete pc backup?
jack-a-lope
June 26th, 2007
at 7:44pm
If he called HP and they gladly shipped him a free recovery CD … then … the problem is … what, exactly?
Want more whine with that cheese?
Leon
September 21st, 2007
at 12:17am
Yeah, sure …
He shouldn’t be forced to call HP, and it doesn’t matter what backup it was, complete or not. That’s the point.
Slated | You can run, but you can't hide
September 21st, 2007
at 2:21am
PC World - Security Researcher Finds Flaw in Windows Media PlayerCopyright Insanity ~ Chris PirilloNeowin.net - Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus
My place
September 23rd, 2007
at 3:13am
las ventas de Vista han sido bajas por el retraso de M$ en lanzarlo, pero mi opinión es diferente. Pueden buscar en Internet. Vista es tan hackeable como XP. Consume demasiada memoria, en PCs originalespone limitantes ridículas de copyright que impiden la creación de discos de recuperación, el Control de Cuentas de Usuario (UAC) es un dolor de cabeza (Si a uno que sabe de computadoras le es molesto, imaginen cómo lo será para alguien que se alarma al ver que Word le pregunta si desea guardar el documento), en fin
Richard
September 28th, 2007
at 5:58pm
Better hope you don’t have to use the back up disks HP sent. I had the same problem. Wouldn’t verify the disks. Called HP and they didn’t say anything. Just shipped me a free DVD. A week or so later I got the “blue screen of death”. No problem, I just popped the the back-up DVD and away it went. Everything looked normal until the thing rebooted. It didn’t have hardly any programs in it. i.e. Media Player, Control Panel, no hard drive (only showing about 25gb out of 120), etc. Better hope you don’t have to use the thing. Nothing but problems. As this was a new compaq laptop, less than a month old, I told them to come get the blooming thing and shove it. They sent it to a place in Tennessee and I got it back about 4 days later. Worked perfectly, even including making a back-up DVD disk. Go figure!!
Wayne Boxall
December 25th, 2007
at 4:53am
So I get the same error….what is causing it? I must have burnt about 10 costers trying DVDs/CDs etc……very annoyed!