Pghpooh
Senior member
HI
Is there a way to save all the current drivers installed on the laptop and save them to a cd so I can reinstall them???
I have had some problems with my laptop. A few months ago when I shut it down I accidentally clicked on the hibernate and it shut down. Since then when the laptop would go into the sleep mode and I want to use it again, the laptop starts but the screen stays blank. I have to shut it down by holding the power button down. Then when I power it back up I have to power it off and on sometimes up to 20 times before the laptop boots!
The laptop is out of warranty. I have been exchanging e-mails with HP support for two weeks and each time someone different replies with a different fix! Sometimes person ?D? says not to do what person ?B? said to do! LOL
My thoughts now are to install a new hard drive (I could use the extra storage of a larger drive) and do a clean install of the os. To me the worst part is reinstalling all the drivers that have been updated over the past two years.
My unit is a HP laptop and the hard drive is partitioned with one partition having the hp software (D drive) on it and the other partition as a normal ?C? drive.
OS is Vista Home Premium oem 32 bit.
I made the system disks when I first got the laptop.
If I made new system disks would those new disks conatin the current working versions of the drivers in use?
All help and suggestions are needed!!!
Is there a way to save all the current drivers installed on the laptop and save them to a cd so I can reinstall them???
I have had some problems with my laptop. A few months ago when I shut it down I accidentally clicked on the hibernate and it shut down. Since then when the laptop would go into the sleep mode and I want to use it again, the laptop starts but the screen stays blank. I have to shut it down by holding the power button down. Then when I power it back up I have to power it off and on sometimes up to 20 times before the laptop boots!
The laptop is out of warranty. I have been exchanging e-mails with HP support for two weeks and each time someone different replies with a different fix! Sometimes person ?D? says not to do what person ?B? said to do! LOL
My thoughts now are to install a new hard drive (I could use the extra storage of a larger drive) and do a clean install of the os. To me the worst part is reinstalling all the drivers that have been updated over the past two years.
My unit is a HP laptop and the hard drive is partitioned with one partition having the hp software (D drive) on it and the other partition as a normal ?C? drive.
OS is Vista Home Premium oem 32 bit.
I made the system disks when I first got the laptop.
If I made new system disks would those new disks conatin the current working versions of the drivers in use?
All help and suggestions are needed!!!
