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    System Recovery after Clean Install

    Discussion in 'HP' started by dwjlee, Jan 24, 2008.

  1. dwjlee

    dwjlee Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys,
    I did a clean install of XP on my machine which shipped with Vista. I had created a recovery disc, but I lost them. :(
    When I did the clean install, I left the HP Recovery Partition in tact.
    Is there any way I can access the recovery partition to get my machine back to Vista. I tried F11 at boot up and doesn't take me any where. I sold my laptop and the new buyer wants the original OS. (HP Pavilion dv2000)
    I know I made a mess of things by losing the recovery disc but any help would be appreciated.
     
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    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you go into the Windows disk manager and set the other partition as active, then reboot, that might get it to boot to the recovery partition.
     
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    dwjlee Notebook Consultant

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    I think it's already active. When I right click the drive, there is an option..."Mark Partition as Active" but you can't select it.

    I notice my C: drive is set to Healthy(Boot) under status and HP_RECOVERY (D :) is set to Healthy(System) under status.
    Maybe changing this will work? If so, how do you change D: to Boot.
    I don't know...
     
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    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    When booting using F11, make sure to hold down the key right after you turn on the computer. It doesn't give you a lot of time to catch it, and usually once you see the "F11" message, it's too late.

    Otherwise, I think I remember someone talking about fixing the MBR to get this to work, but you'll have to search around the forums here.
     
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