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    Installing off of a recovery partition

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jamesh2, Sep 25, 2007.

  1. jamesh2

    jamesh2 Newbie

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    I have an 11 gig recovery partition on my dv6000. like an idiot i lost the cds i made and now want to do a clean install, is there a way to do this off of the recovery partition? thanks in advance guys
     
    jamesh2, Sep 25, 2007
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  2. Envision

    Envision Notebook Deity

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    So I take it you started to do a clean install so you don't have access to the recovery option HP installs in Windows?

    If you did start a clean install and don't have the HP recovery option inside of Windows look at the bottom left of the computer screen when I first boots and it should show you the boot options. I believe you hit F8 for the recovery partition but I'm not 100% sure.
     
    Envision, Sep 25, 2007
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  3. giblets

    giblets Notebook Enthusiast

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    On most HP and Compaq laptops you hit F11 during the POST process to access the recovery application.
     
    giblets, Sep 25, 2007
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    Redneck_Randy Notebook Geek

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    Redneck_Randy, Sep 26, 2007
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