Restoring my HP Pavillion DV9500

I am trying to restore my system using the recovery partition in the hard drive, but when I boot up and press F11 repeatedly, it just boots up windows like nothing happened.

I called HP and they didn't know what was wrong, and they said that they could mail me restore discs for a shipping fee of like 50 bucks. He says I can't create recovery discs myself if it's 2 weeks or more after I bought the product. I've tried creating discs, but when I try to use DVD-RWs, it doesn't work, but I would assume it works for DVD-Rs. I'll try with DVD-R, but if that doesn't work, what do I do??? Why can't I restore my system???

Please help me!

Thanks so much in advance everyone!

 

I don't know if they changed HP recovery disk creator, but from what I know you can burn the recovery disks only once, and there isn't a 2 week time limit on it. Try the DVD-R, I wouldn't use a rewritable disk for creating the recovery disks.

Anyways, you can restore your system from the start menu. I forget the exact name of the option, but it will be a HP name or system recovery. The option will be there if you haven't done a clean install though. The only reason you would need to access the recovery partition before booting into Windows is if you did a clean install, but it doesn't sound like you did that yet.

 

To burn the recovery discs, you will need DVD+R discs. You should definitely burn them for future use.

To boot using F11, hold down the F11 key from the time you press the power button. There is a very small window to get it right, so just hold it down.

 

Please click Start and type "Recovery Manager". click on that and follow the on screen instructions.

 

Thanks guys, I'll try it, the next time I log on I'll either be stuck with another problem, or with a restored HP Pavilion DV9500!

Thanks guys.

 

And it worked, we're good to go!

Thanks everyone!

 

$50.00 ???????????????????????????

I was told they were $19.95 including shipping

Anyway. Glad you got restore working.

 

The Recovery disk is $20 not $50

 

Is it $20 even after you purchase the laptop? Because I know HP offers a lot of accessories at discounted prices when you are purchasing a laptop, but if you want to buy the accessories after the price is higher.

I just never looked into buying the disks after the fact because I always burned them myself.

 

They should be no more than $20. You may be able to get them for free if you complain to tech support (not customer support) that the ones you had are not working correctly.

 

I'm up NORTH in CANADIA where people live in igloos and it snows nonstop all year round lol. He said shipping to canada is like, 50 bucks or w/e

Lol, fts.

it works great now.

THanks everyone!

 

Huh, it shouldn't cost that much even to ship something up to Soviet Canuckistan