[access-uk] Re: N120 Recovery partition question

  • From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:03:04 +0100

So James, would Narrator assist in creating the partitions?

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:42 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: N120 Recovery partition question


Hi Orhan.

OK, there are two reasons why Samsung no longer issue recovery cd's. Firstly, when they issued CD's with their older netbooks like the NC10, they were OEM preconfigured which basically means that they were fully activated products with their own license keys. Of course, copies of these recovery media would start popping up all over the net on illegal download websites and because these cd's didn't perform hardware checks or come customised enough to the specific hardware of the machines they were intended for, all and sundry would download them for different makes of machine. Therefore, Microsoft asked Samsung to no longer ship recovery disks with their machines, instead they created or rather updated their recovery solution software to burn recovery media. When you get a Samsung machine such as a netbook, there is no recovery partition on the machine by default. The recovery partition is made during the initial setup of the recovery software, its one of the first things that comes up after you've entered the details to set up windows. A snapshot of the hard drive would be taken and that is what you would be expected to burn to a dvd. There is no way to get a copy of XP for these machines which you can reinstall from a cd directly through Samsung, however there is a product key label on the back side of the netbook, so if you have access to an XP home disk, you'd be easily able to reinstall it if your hard drive were wiped. Samsung do give you a software media disk to reinstall drivers and utilities, so even if you upgraded to something like XP profession which I did on my machine, you'd easily be able to reinstall the drivers and utilities to get your netbook fully functional.

I hope this explanation answers your questions.


----- Original Message ----- From: Orhan Deniz
 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:26 PM
 Subject: [access-uk] N120 Recovery partition question


 Hi,
Was thinking of going with this netbook, However due to it not having a recovery CD, I am slightly sceptical. I know the recovery partition is hidden, however is there any way to explore the contents of this partition? I was thinking of making my own custom install CD with the contents of the partition...

It's a real shame that Samsung didn't include a recovery CD because if the partition is screwed up, your practically done.


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