Create new recovery discs for HP notebook?

Bought an HP Pavilion dv9260nr notebook in December 2007 through eBay, Australia. It is a USA model which was repaired under extended warranty locally in Australia. Due to new hardware of a motherboard, RAM & Wireless network card, my originally created Factory Recovery Disks come up with an error message of "This PC is not supported by the system recovery disks. You will not be able to continue to recover this system with these disc". HP Australia & USA have been totally unhelpful (sorry but true) in forwarding a new set of disks. My OS is MS Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit for which I have a licence sticker on the notebook. I don't just want the OS but all of the factory software. Is there a way to tweak my recovery disks so they work? I don't have a recovery partition on my hard drive still, not that would probably have mattered. Thank you.

 

Hi peter welcome to MG.


Let me see if i have this right...

You bought a lappy, and made a recovery disc?

You replaced the Mobo, RAM and Net card?

You then tried to use the recovery disc after installing a new Mobo?


???

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Yes Sir!

 

Bad news im afraid peter...

Now im not 100% sure on this so don't give up yet, hopefully somone might come in with better news.

BUT installing a new Motherboard is essentially a new computer to an OEM install so i dont think you can use the recover discs on anything except the PC (including Mobo) it was made on/for.


Sorry mate.


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