The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    can not start up from recovery partion

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by tpaxadpom, Sep 25, 2007.

  1. tpaxadpom

    tpaxadpom Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    19
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    My PC came originally with Windows Xp Home Edition. I have upgraded to Vista and since then my recovery option doesn't show up during bootup. I haven't touch the recovery partition. All of the files are still there. I did downgrade to Windows Xp Home Edition and still don't get partition recovery option during bootup sequence.
    Anyone has any idea what's going on?
     
    tpaxadpom, Sep 25, 2007
    #1
  2. danny2001

    danny2001 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    288
    Messages:
    237
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    My guess would be because Vista was installed, it would have replaced the XP bootloader that was giving you that option.
     
    danny2001, Sep 25, 2007
    #2
  3. tpaxadpom

    tpaxadpom Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    19
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    any idea how to recover that? Gateway PCs typically use F11 to startup from recovery partition.
     
    tpaxadpom, Sep 25, 2007
    #3
  4. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

    Reputations:
    1,163
    Messages:
    3,017
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    It is unusual for a recovery partition to be a truly bootable and usable system image. More often it is simply a bootstrap process to replace or repair your primary partition. You might be able to look into the BIOS settings to see what F11 is looking to find that it is not finding.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 25, 2007
    #4
  5. tpaxadpom

    tpaxadpom Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    19
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    there is nothing in the bios for f11. It doesn't have such option in there.
     
    tpaxadpom, Sep 28, 2007
    #5
  6. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

    Reputations:
    1,163
    Messages:
    3,017
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    I see that ATI has an F11 option as well, so there must be a hook mechanism. I did a little Google searching and found that it is probably implemented via a Master Boot Record (MBR). Read about it a bit more here.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 28, 2007
    #6