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    My recovery DVD says my copmuter doesn't support recovery disks

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bilsch, May 7, 2008.

  1. bilsch

    bilsch Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a dv200 Pavillion with Vista. Vista is broken and also I lost the code in the MBR (sector 001 on the hard drive). So I popped in the recovery DVD I made back when I bought the computer. The system boots, the progress bar shows Windows loading files for a minute or two, then the screen turns the normal desktop color. It displays an ERROR message:

    THIS PC IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE SYSTEM RECOVERY DISKS. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER THIS SYSTEM WITH THESE DISKS.

    Actually it is only a single DVD disk because I used a dual layer DVD so it would fit on a single disk. I think the disk should work. I don't remember exactly, but I probably booted with with it right after I created it and verified that I displayed a user menu of some sort. Therefore, I think it now doesn't like my system for some reason. It sees something it doesn't like.

    MY QUESTION: has anybody here ever heard of this problem with recovery disks ? I'm interested to learn everything I can about this situation and also about recovery disks and partitions.

    TIA. Bill S.
     
    bilsch, May 7, 2008
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  2. flipfire

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    If you have changed/modified any of the hardware, the dvd wont work
     
    flipfire, May 7, 2008
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    I haven't changed anything.
     
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    HP's fault then, i know its gonna be a pain but call HP support
     
    flipfire, May 7, 2008
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