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    Any way to restore XP?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by firelord901, Apr 17, 2007.

  1. firelord901

    firelord901 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, I am currently running Windows Vista. Whenever I hit F11 at the BIOS to go into the recovery partition it doesn't work. It still boots me to Vista. Anyone know if it is possible to restore XP? The HP Tech Support told me it was possible and to just hit F11, but it still didn't work. Anyone know if it's possible. I have three partitions if that means anything. The Vista Partition, the XP Recovery Partition, and some 4mb partition.
     
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    For the F11 restore process to work you will have to have the original XP installation intact. Sicne Vista changes the MBR you cannot boot into the restore process. use the recovery discs you burnt to put the system back to factory state.
     
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    Well I got it to work :) Took me a little messing around but i got it to work :) The recovery partition is useable once installing Vista.
     
    firelord901, Apr 20, 2007
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    Can you please elaborate a bit more on this? Did you use vista recovery discs that enabled the F11 option or did you do a clean vista install and then managed a setting to boot from the second partition?
    If I understood you well, your original recovery partition is an XP one..
     
    booyoo, Apr 20, 2007
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