Windows installation disc (newbie)

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Computer keeps asking for windows inst. disc because of missing file.
Goes to Caldera DOS/A:
Don't have any discs.
Have an old Windows XP and 2000.
Will they help??
Thanks

Hi:
Turn your PC on.
Keep tapping the F9 key as soon as you see the HP welcome screen to access the one time boot menu.
Just leave it at that menu for a moment.
Insert recovery disk 1 into the DVD drive.
Now at that boot menu, select the DVD rom drive, and hit the enter key.
Carefully watch the screen..it should give a message...attempting to boot from DVD..press any key to boot from DVD.
Press any key, and follow the on screen instructions.
Paul

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i hve a hp g61 but by accident i have deleyed my files so rang the help line and purchased the hp recovery dics but when i put these into my laptop nothing happens i can i get this to work help
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Hi:
Turn your PC on.
Keep tapping the F9 key as soon as you see the HP welcome screen to access the one time boot menu.
Just leave it at that menu for a moment.
Insert recovery disk 1 into the DVD drive.
Now at that boot menu, select the DVD rom drive, and hit the enter key.
Carefully watch the screen..it should give a message...attempting to boot from DVD..press any key to boot from DVD.
Press any key, and follow the on screen instructions.
Paul

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As most of you know, 4 gigs of RAM is useless with a 32-bit OS. Also, NOW Lenovo is building new T500s with the option of having Windows 7 Ultimate 64 (why wasn't Vista Ultimate 64 offered when I bought my computer???).  And the price for choosing Windows 7 Ultimate 32 is EQUAL to the price for choosing Windows 7 Ultimate 64, which proves that there is no cost difference. I just want to know what Lenovo has to gain by denying customers a 64-bit upgrade? There would really be no additional cost since as I mentioned before, Microsoft's retail upgrade includes the 32 and 64-bit OS on one disc. If anything I would think that it's costing Lenovo money to strip the 64-bit install from the upgrade discs.
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Daventry wrote:
Is there any way to request a 64-bit OEM? Why should Lenovo care whether I want a 32-bit or 64-bit as long as it's the same edition (Ultimate edition)?
if your system shipped with a 32-bit version of vista then you will be sent 32-bit windows 7 upgrade media.   the reason for this is two-fold.
first, because this is upgrade media, it's impossible to install a 64-bit version of windows over a 32-bit version.   doing so would require a clean installation and upgrade media simply won't allow this.   this is the case with retail media, too.   if you had 32-bit vista installed and wanted to upgrade it to 64-bit using retail media, you'd have to wipe your system or set up a dual-boot.
second, the COA (certificate of authenticity) on the bottom of your system is for vista.   because of this, your new license is of an upgrade from vista to 7.   this is how microsoft licenses it and it is their policy, not lenovo's.   microsoft's policy with OEMs is that you must install vista first, then upgrade to 7 (unless, of course, you purchased your system native with 7 on or after the 22nd).   since your original lenovo preload is of a 32-bit OS, the issue becomes circular and you'll have to refer again to the first reason.
i understand your frustration and wish this stuff were made easier for everyone.   it's repetative reading post after post of people with 4GB installed who don't understand the limitations of a 32-bit environment. i wish both manufacturers and users switched to 64-bit OSes sooner. the same thing happened when the industry went from 16-bit windows 3.11 to 32-bit windows NT4/95 and limitations went from 16KB all the way up to 4GB (which, in 1995, no one thought we'd ever exceed).   the difference is that people were complaining on BBSes over 14.4k modems instead of on GUI-based forums using broadband connections.   times sure have changed.
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Windows 8 Recovery Disc not working

Hi everbody,
I have purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad T430.
This laptop came with pre-installed Windows 7 Pro.
However I want to use Windows 8 which I have a recovery disc for.
I built in a SSD instead of the optical drive. So I don´t have a optical drive.
On this SSD I want to run my OS.
With a software from Samsung (manufacturer of my SSD) I was able to copy the Windows7 OS on my SSD.
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The problem now is that I have an upgrade disc but no optical drive.
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http://www.chip.de/downloads/UNetbootin_34673960.html
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So I chose a language, and clicked on "I accept the agreements".
When I want to click on "next" I got a error message "recovery failed".
Please have a look on the following picture taken with my smartphone.
The language used in this picture is german as i live in Austria.
Link to image
Do you know how I can upgrade to Windows 8?
Can you tell me why the upgrade disc is not working?
Best Regards,
Philipp Stöger
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Dear Phisto, from your description i cannot tell you anything more about the disk apart from the obvious, that it seems to be incomplete without the other 11 disks of the set. Did you buy this disk from Lenovo, from Microsoft, or is it something that came from unofficial channels? If it is the latter maybe you should not try to install it...
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As for the location of your various drives, I would suggest to keep things really really basic if you want to troubleshoot effectively, so the best thing would be to return the system to a "factory" condition, of course with the SSD in place of the HDD. You don't know which parameter is causing you trouble at this point. So, of course it would be easier to use an external DVD drive (and you should try it!), butif it fails as well you should try also the other approach.
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Brad Spalding wrote:
i have my old PC with XP Pro installed but it's been years since i purchased the computer and no longer have the installation disc. Can i still run boot camp without the disc?
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