Hello, sufferers of Windows and other %^&*(
Though the question had been asked before in a similar way I want to bring the subject up again.
I bought a refurbished Gateway notebook which works quite OK though it runs hotter than I like. Now I try to make recovery discs but I cannot spot any command or suitable files. There is a recovery partition of 10.1 GB but my file manager tells me 10GB are available. So either there is a special mechanism for hiding data or there never was anything.
I can buy discs but I hate to pay if I do not need to. Like General Patton supposedly said: " I do not like to pay for real estate twice".
A similar problem occured on my HP laptop. There I see the files but I could not make them work because The CD Create program claimed that I did this procedure before and I am entitled to only one copy. I may have made that copy though I cannot remember (CRS desease). YOUTUBE has a nice procedure to eliminate the road block. I am just in the process of burning the 4 DVDs and hope they will work. It seems the companies suspect we are all criminals. No one ever asked me for a copy and I never offered one and I would not want to work with illegal software. I even rather pay than use free cloud computing.
If anyone has a hint I would gladly give it a try.
Thanks in advance
Sailor Jo
Though the question had been asked before in a similar way I want to bring the subject up again.
I bought a refurbished Gateway notebook which works quite OK though it runs hotter than I like. Now I try to make recovery discs but I cannot spot any command or suitable files. There is a recovery partition of 10.1 GB but my file manager tells me 10GB are available. So either there is a special mechanism for hiding data or there never was anything.
I can buy discs but I hate to pay if I do not need to. Like General Patton supposedly said: " I do not like to pay for real estate twice".
A similar problem occured on my HP laptop. There I see the files but I could not make them work because The CD Create program claimed that I did this procedure before and I am entitled to only one copy. I may have made that copy though I cannot remember (CRS desease). YOUTUBE has a nice procedure to eliminate the road block. I am just in the process of burning the 4 DVDs and hope they will work. It seems the companies suspect we are all criminals. No one ever asked me for a copy and I never offered one and I would not want to work with illegal software. I even rather pay than use free cloud computing.
If anyone has a hint I would gladly give it a try.
Thanks in advance
Sailor Jo