No driver CD with my new HP Laptop

minhajj
By minhajj

Hi there.

Last night I bought a new HP Pavilion DV-6 1330EV from LULU Gaharaffa.

After coming back home I realized that there was no Driver CD with the laptop.

Just wanted to know if it's actually missing or they don't give a CD with HP at all.

Thanks

By minhajj• 14 Dec 2009 10:58
minhajj

Thanks a lot guys, I recall now the sales guy telling me to make a recovery disk from the D: drive.

I will do that now.

Thanks again.

Cheers

By toxic8• 14 Dec 2009 10:56
Rating: 2/5
toxic8

Hi there

Computers rarely come with driver CDs anymore, since it is cheaper for the manufacturers to make the drivers available on internet. The only problem you might have in downloading the drivers from Internet is if you dont have internet access or you have a network card driver corruption!!! ;-)

Go to http://www.hp.com/#Support and download all of the drivers for yourself and store them on your own CD. The only driver i ever download and save for my computers are the network drivers. Once connected to Internet i download drivers as and when i need them. The reason for this is that if you do decide to download ALL the drivers:

1. It can take a VERY long time. Some driver files are in excess of 100MB.

2. The drivers are updated farely frequently, so as soon as you create your own CD chances are those drivers will be dated.

I recommend:

1. Download network drivers. Save them to HARD DISK AND CD.

2. Visit above link at least once a month and update your drivers. This way you will always be up to date.

Best of luck to you!

By anonymous• 14 Dec 2009 10:28
anonymous

HPs haven't been coming with driver or recovery disks for a long time now.

They instead come with a recovery partition.

By _noms_• 14 Dec 2009 10:25
_noms_

Make a recovery disk urslf. Files are stored in ur laptop as default. HP dosen't come with disks anymore.

By anonyalkult• 14 Dec 2009 09:46
anonyalkult

It should come with the package. Check the list of contents in the package to check if there should be a CD. Be aware that it is the motherboard CD itself.

One possibility is to download drivers from hp.com

By gnosis• 14 Dec 2009 09:18
Rating: 4/5
gnosis

Hp laptops dont come with recovery disks anymore but if you see in your D drive.Your drivers and installation files are preloaded there.In case of a Format, you can install it from the D drive. And if u still insist on having a Disk ( just to be on the safer side )

U need to go to Programs menu, there you will see

Recovery Manager ==== > Recovery Disk Creation. Follow the steps and make sure 1st that u have a few DVD`s handy.

By uzee• 14 Dec 2009 09:02
uzee

I don't know about here, but in the States they normally don't include a driver CD, they may include a restore CD which is a customized CD with OS and drivers (you cant use it to do a new install) but thats about it. Generally almost all required drivers should be preloaded with the OS whether it is XP or Vista.

By DukebluedeviL• 14 Dec 2009 08:58
Rating: 3/5
DukebluedeviL

They are not really giving out CD's for driver. In case you need to format, you need to download it from the HP website. I'd called Lulu several times about this.

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