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Since the HP bloatware is mostly installed programs, you'd probably be better off not hacking away at their program files, but instead wait til after reimaging to Clean up factory bloatware
Since the HP bloatware is mostly installed programs, you'd probably be better off not hacking away at their program files, but instead wait til after reimaging to Clean up factory bloatware
That is definitely better, no doubt about it.
Only reason for suggesting pruning it was to reduce image size so that it can be run from a pen drive. There are massive amounts of absolutely useless bloatware on these machine.
Regards....Mike Connor
Win7 backup and restore utility also creates images as .vhd (along with some xml files that describe the partition structure etc.). Try pointing it to your .vhd.
System Image Recovery
Hi Again
Sorry for the delay in reply, i will backup the image tomorrow using the Easeus software and try to restore over my c: partition.
Question: Can you just clarify when i have the image on the usb flash drive how do i recover onto my c: partition, do i have to boot using some recovery software or will it just work from the windows application?
thanks
There are a number of possibilities, and some have already been outlined here.
In order to do the job with Easeus, you need to get the image into a format that Easeus can use. The simplest way to do this is to mount the image as a virtual disc and then back that up as an image, using Easeus.
In order to be able to restore that image, you have to have an operating system running. The Easeus boot media you build contains a small Linux operating system which allows you to boot your machine directly from that media, and restore the image.
SOMETIMES!!! Easeus can restore the image directly. Without any conversion at all. You just boot the Easeus recovery media, and ask it to restore the image on the D: drive to the system drive.
You can also mount the image as a virtual disc and it is possible that you can restore from that, but this is unreliable.
The main problem you have to overcome here is that you can not normally restore an image to the system drive of a running system. This overwrites the system drive, which the system requires to operate, and the system crashes. The boot media installs a completely different operating system and does not need to use the system itself.
Problems with boot media capacity are a separate matter.
If anything is still unclear, don't hesitate to ask.
Regards....Mike Connor
Hi Mike
Thanks for the info
Just to outline my plan which i will do tomorrow
Step 1 - Mount the VHD image file in windows 7 and take a backup of the partition using Easeus to a usb flash
Step 2 - Create bootable CD or usb / Still a bit unclear about how i do this but think it can be done with the Easeus software
Step 3 - Restore image which Easeus has created when booted from bootable cd or usb
Hope this is correct
thanks
Ok
Will post back tomorrow, thanks for the help so far :)