educate me ... 3 recovery disks

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shelbydog25

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Gateway sent me 3 disks... 2 are recovery. what is the 3rd one for? (should I ever need to run startup repair, which disk will I use (#1) rather than reinstall the entire OS.
 

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shelbydog25 said:
Gateway sent me 3 disks... 2 are recovery. what is the 3rd one for? (should I ever need to run startup repair, which disk will I use (#1) rather than reinstall the entire OS.
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Isn't there a tutorial for you to look at? Or more instructions. There must be something with what you got that tells you. When all else fails, call them.

Sorry but I cannot be of help -- I have a HP machine.
 

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    and lots more including 8 speaker configurable sound system
Hello shelbydog25,

Contact Gateway support to get the required answers.

Gateway Support
 

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What do the labels say on the disks? My guess would be that the other disk would be Drivers or similar.
 

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    Dwarf Dwf/11/2012 r09/2013
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    Intel Core-i5-3570K 4-core @ 3.4GHz (Ivy Bridge) (OC 4.2GHz)
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    ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M
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    4 x 4GB DDR3-1600 Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (16GB)
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    Realtek High Definition on board solution (ALC 898)
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    ViewSonic VA1912w Widescreen
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    WD 2.0TB Ext USB 3.0
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I got 2 from HP for my Compaq and it turned out the first of was the OS disk and the other was the "Driver and Software DVD". But 3 is kinda odd, you might actually have 2 DVDs for software or if they are CDs then that makes sense a little bit. Before using them contact customer support and make sure that everything is right.
 

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    HP Pavilion DV7-1129wm Entertainment PC
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    AMD Turion X2 RM-72 Dual Core @ 2.1GHz
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    2 x 2 GB Hyundai DDR2 400 MHZ
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    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 @ 256 MB
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    IDT High Definition Audio/SRS Premium Sound/Altec Lansing
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    17" Laptop Screen
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    1440 x 900 laptop, external 17 in LCD 1024 x 768
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    WD Scorpio Blue 320 GB SATA 5400 RPM
    Toshiba 68 GB SATA 5400 RPM Second Drive (backup)
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    8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
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    Laptop with "light up" HP Logo on outside
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    Insane air coming out of Targus dual fan cooler
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    Full Keyboard with numpad
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    Comcast Cable 20 MBps
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    Internal Dual Layer DVD+/-RW
    External HP Lightscribe Dual Layer DVD+/-RW
    HP Webcam and Microphone
two disks say "Recovery 1 and 2". the other just says Gateway... I assume it's a drivers disk? and after the first two are installed it will prompte me to insert disk 3? I'll have to check Gateway support site, but they are very reluctant in letting people know they will ship recovery disks for free. It's all about piracy and saving $$. On these new PC's they aren't sending recovery disks, merely adding the recovery to the HDD, of little help if you can't get your HDD up and running.
 

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