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Rescue and Recovery CD craziness
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:31 am
by Vripper
So I get the CD pack in the mail (for free after I called the second time), install last night (the first five discs), and I'm all set.
There don't seem to be any problems, until I install Adobe Reader. It just doesn't work, and freezes when I try to open it.
After I try for another reinstall of the R&R CDs, it installs all six discs!
I called support before I installed for the second time, and the guy asked the supervisor, who told him "some comps take 5 discs, some take all 6".
Craziness... but I'm glad I went ahead and installed for the second time.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:10 am
by tfflivemb2
Which system was this on?
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:02 pm
by Vripper
I've got a T60, 2007-C4U.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:42 pm
by Nick Y
Once you have re-installed from the CD pack, do you not need to go through System Update and Software Installer to update all that needs updating? I understood the CD packs to be somewhat generic, and hence the need for the updates. (Hence the Adobe freeze.)
Nick
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:51 pm
by Vripper
Nick Y wrote:Once you have re-installed from the CD pack, do you not need to go through System Update and Software Installer to update all that needs updating? I understood the CD packs to be somewhat generic, and hence the need for the updates. (Hence the Adobe freeze.)
Nick
Perhaps they are generic, at least that's what I was told by support. The crazy part of the whole thing is that the first install only took the first 5 discs, but the second install took all six discs. Weird...
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:31 pm
by jjesusfreak01
Vripper wrote:Nick Y wrote:Once you have re-installed from the CD pack, do you not need to go through System Update and Software Installer to update all that needs updating? I understood the CD packs to be somewhat generic, and hence the need for the updates. (Hence the Adobe freeze.)
Nick
Perhaps they are generic, at least that's what I was told by support. The crazy part of the whole thing is that the first install only took the first 5 discs, but the second install took all six discs. Weird...
The last disc is extra software. I remember being asked for it last time I reinstalled Windows, but I didn't use it, and not using it did not cause any problems.