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I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 and run Windows Visa Home Edition. I wanted to restore my laptop to. I then right clicked on the computer >manage> disk manager and made the recovery partition active. When I rebooted the. The instructions here are for Win 7 machines but same basic process for Vista. 3 Easy Steps to Download and Updated HP Pavilion Driver for Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP. With Driver Talent you need just 3 steps to download and update HP Pavilion drivers for Windows 10 (Fall Creators Update/Creators Update/Anniversary Update), Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP.
I am trying to repair someone's HP DV2000 laptop. It came with Windows XP MCE, but someone attempted to upgrade it to Windows Vista and it went badly. Anyway the owner doesn't have restore discs, so normally I would just take a generic OEM CD and add the appropriate OEMBIOS files. However I notice that the recovery partition is still there, just no HP recovery software installed, either in windows or as a boot time utility. I was wondering if it was possible to simply reinstall the recovery software and recover from the recovery partition? I know about the boot utility, but it was removed.
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Is there a way to restore the boot time utility? - BTW The Vista OS is barely functional, no wired internet, no USB, touchpad's gone wacky. The previous owner performed a upgrade install to Vista without entering a CD key and used an obsolete activation hack which seems to freeze the activation timer at 30 days. They neglected to install half the device drivers. The wireless worked so they installed limewire and used it until the system got infected with something.
I booted to a Linux DVD to checkout the hardware. Then they sold the laptop to my friend at what I only hope was a very low price. Checking out the recovery partition from linux it looks like nothing more than a stripped down version of Windows XP, maybe a modified version of Windows PE? So up in some boot loader software and added the recovery partition as an option. My guess was on the money and it completely restored everything to the factory defaults including the F11 boot utility which will come in handy next time someone needs to restore the system. Anyway its 100% restored to original condition and I didn't have to pay HP and wait 5-7 days or install everything from scratch.
Hey guys, For anyone else having this problem, here's another method that is pretty simple. If you have installed XP or Vista, but still have the Recovery Partition (a.k.a. It wasn't deleted), here's what you need to do to access the System Recovery and get back in business. This obviously assumes that you do have XP or Vista installed, and just can't access System Recovery. It may work for Windows 2000, but I don't want to go through this again to find out. Step 1: Right-click 'My Computer' and click 'Manage' Step 2: Go to 'Disk Management' Step 3: Right-click the 'Drive D/Recovery Partition' and click 'Mark Partition as Active' Step 4: Reboot, and press F11 as it starts up It should work fine. Mine booted right up into the Recovery Manager and let me restore the machine.
Reference laptop was HP dv9817cl with Vista installed from the Factory I know this is an old post, but I found this and many others in my search for a solution to this problem today, and this solution was the easiest I've found. I figured since I found this post, that someone else will someday as well. On that day, I hope this information is of use to them.
Thanks freythman! I used your method to set Recovery Partition 'D' to 'Active' using your four simple steps and I was able to restart my HP desktop computer into HP System Recovery Only I had to press F10 key on keyboard at bootup after setting D partition 'Active'. I think Laptops are F11 and Desktops are F10 I am using an HP Pavilion a350n desktop computer that was running XP Home edition. Originally, and for other reasons, I ended up deleting (not formatting) all the files on the C partition only using a Windows PE Boot CD called MiniPE from DigIWiz I originally loaded a temporary version of Windows from any available version of XP (in my case Windows XP Pro). Than I had access to Disk Management program where I followed your steps For those of you without an available Windows install disc to borrow from a friend.
A quicker option is to download any type of CD 'Boot Disc' such as DigiWiz MiniPE, Hiren's Boot CD or Linux and use a Partitioning Utility such as Partition Magic, Acronis Partition, or Paragon HD tools that are located on many of these Boot CDs. Hey guys, For anyone else having this problem, here's another method that is pretty simple.
If you have installed XP or Vista, but still have the Recovery Partition (a.k.a. It wasn't deleted), here's what you need to do to access the System Recovery and get back in business. This obviously assumes that you do have XP or Vista installed, and just can't access System Recovery. It may work for Windows 2000, but I don't want to go through this again to find out. Step 1: Right-click 'My Computer' and click 'Manage' Step 2: Go to 'Disk Management' Step 3: Right-click the 'Drive D/Recovery Partition' and click 'Mark Partition as Active' Step 4: Reboot, and press F11 as it starts up It should work fine. Mine booted right up into the Recovery Manager and let me restore the machine. Reference laptop was HP dv9817cl with Vista installed from the Factory I know this is an old post, but I found this and many others in my search for a solution to this problem today, and this solution was the easiest I've found.
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I figured since I found this post, that someone else will someday as well. On that day, I hope this information is of use to them. Hey guys, For anyone else having this problem, here's another method that is pretty simple. If you have installed XP or Vista, but still have the Recovery Partition (a.k.a. It wasn't deleted), here's what you need to do to access the System Recovery and get back in business.
This obviously assumes that you do have XP or Vista installed, and just can't access System Recovery. It may work for Windows 2000, but I don't want to go through this again to find out. Step 1: Right-click 'My Computer' and click 'Manage' Step 2: Go to 'Disk Management' Step 3: Right-click the 'Drive D/Recovery Partition' and click 'Mark Partition as Active' Step 4: Reboot, and press F11 as it starts up It should work fine. Mine booted right up into the Recovery Manager and let me restore the machine. Reference laptop was HP dv9817cl with Vista installed from the Factory I know this is an old post, but I found this and many others in my search for a solution to this problem today, and this solution was the easiest I've found. I figured since I found this post, that someone else will someday as well. On that day, I hope this information is of use to them.
Hey guys, For anyone else having this problem, here's another method that is pretty simple. If you have installed XP or Vista, but still have the Recovery Partition (a.k.a. It wasn't deleted), here's what you need to do to access the System Recovery and get back in business. This obviously assumes that you do have XP or Vista installed, and just can't access System Recovery. It may work for Windows 2000, but I don't want to go through this again to find out. Step 1: Right-click 'My Computer' and click 'Manage' Step 2: Go to 'Disk Management' Step 3: Right-click the 'Drive D/Recovery Partition' and click 'Mark Partition as Active' Step 4: Reboot, and press F11 as it starts up It should work fine.
Mine booted right up into the Recovery Manager and let me restore the machine. Reference laptop was HP dv9817cl with Vista installed from the Factory I know this is an old post, but I found this and many others in my search for a solution to this problem today, and this solution was the easiest I've found. I figured since I found this post, that someone else will someday as well. On that day, I hope this information is of use to them. This worked awesome. I had installed Windows 7 on an HP Notebook. I'm going to sell the notebook and needed to restore back to factory settings.
I never burned the discs, but this gave me the ability to use the F11 when booting command. Thanks so much! Wel, it worked, setting the recovery partitionto active then pressing f11. I had tied f11 before but it couldnt boot from the recovery partition. I registered today to say thanks and give some more useful info, the program, recovery Manager is listed on the recovery partition as softhinks, in the sources folder at the bottom, not an exe file, just says file. If you change it and put an exe extension on it, you can run it, I think, in dos or the version of os you had on your machine (tried it in win 7 said it was the wrong something or another) Hope this solves the mystery of the missing recovery manager:shiftyninja. Hey guys, For anyone else having this problem, here's another method that is pretty simple.
If you have installed XP or Vista, but still have the Recovery Partition (a.k.a. It wasn't deleted), here's what you need to do to access the System Recovery and get back in business. This obviously assumes that you do have XP or Vista installed, and just can't access System Recovery.
It may work for Windows 2000, but I don't want to go through this again to find out. Step 1: Right-click 'My Computer' and click 'Manage' Step 2: Go to 'Disk Management' Step 3: Right-click the 'Drive D/Recovery Partition' and click 'Mark Partition as Active' Step 4: Reboot, and press F11 as it starts up It should work fine.
Mine booted right up into the Recovery Manager and let me restore the machine. Reference laptop was HP dv9817cl with Vista installed from the Factory I know this is an old post, but I found this and many others in my search for a solution to this problem today, and this solution was the easiest I've found. I figured since I found this post, that someone else will someday as well.
On that day, I hope this information is of use to them.