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HP Quickplay

heymrdj

heymrdj

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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?
 
I think that they include a restore disc that will set your system back to factory defaults, including (hopefully) the Quickplay.
 
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 😛.
 
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.
 
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 🙂.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Just wait until you accidentally start quickplay while doing something in windows. My wife loves doing that let me tell you. 😛
 
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