HP Quickplay

[heymrdj]

Ok I've been finding some disturbing info on my laptop that's on its way. It has the Quickplay feature, which I adore on my aunt's 9000z. But I see where it uses a stripped down Windows on a separate 1GB partition to run. This guide: http://www.connpost.com/techbits/ci_6359128

Explains it. SO....I'm boned whenever I would have to reinstall the Vista? No wiping the drive and dual booting? I mean this sounds like some serious suckage here. Any ideas guys? Or experiences?

 

[TheStu]

I think that they include a restore disc that will set your system back to factory defaults, including (hopefully) the Quickplay.

 

[heymrdj]

That's what he told me. I got the Vista DVD coming with it (15$ added). He said just to follow their directions for creating a rescue disk, which is easy enough to do (they guide step by step in an article). So I guess the disc could recreate the partitions then add the quickplay system back in...Sounds like a darn risky trial to me .

 

[Megatomic]

I didn't like the Quickplay on my wife's DV2000T, so when I got my DV6000T I formatted the entire drive and made one big partition and put my own copy of WinXP Pro on it. I don't miss Quickplay at all.

 

[heymrdj]

Well that's you . I do want QuickPlay however cause I will frequently (currently I have the need 7+ times per day) to play music off my system, without crankin up all the Vista and everything.

Anyways thanks for the help guys. I'll create rescue discs first thing when i get it, then run Ubuntu Studio as my second OS as a VMWare image. It won't be slow with 2GB of memory in it anyways. Thanks for the advice guys .

 

[corkyg]

I also reformatted and installed XP Pro on my dv1000, and that lost Quick Play. However, it was easy to reinstall from the HP CDs that came with the laptop. I think the driver files for Q/P can be downloaded from HP as well.

It is convenient, but I have never really used it.

 

[heymrdj]

Yeah, I think you can download the drivers online. But I don't get it. If you have the drivers on the disk, how come Mr. No SPeak English Well at HP support said DON"T MESS WITH THE PARTITION TABLES. He said if I reformat, quickplay won't work. Apparently quickplay is making its own partition...question is...how do you get everything set up right...

Anyone got a step-by-step?

EDIT: Looks like THIS is the key. I'm gonna pick up a 3 pack of Verbatim DVD Dual layers at Walmart today so I can create one recovery disk (insteal of 7-11CD's or 2 regular DVD's). I'll do it first thing when the laptop arrives like everyone has been telling me to.

 

[corkyg]

This might help:

HP

 

[heymrdj]

Originally posted by: corkyg

This might help:

HP

Bad Link.

 

[heymrdj]

Anything like This?This seems like the most comprehensive method, although its provisions for Vista is a bit sketchy.

I'll probably just leave the lappy alone when I get it and uninstall what I don't want. But I still wanna learn this for the future.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: heymrdj

Originally posted by: corkyg

This might help:

HP

Bad Link.

Well, it works for me - including your quote. Try the URL:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfr...oftwareitem=ob-31393-1

 

[heymrdj]

Yeah it works for me now too. He went back and edited the bad link.

It used to look like this: QP">http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfr...oftwareitem=ob-31393-1
and that's the link it attempted to send me to .

 

[Megatomic]

Just wait until you accidentally start quickplay while doing something in windows. My wife loves doing that let me tell you.