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    Windows 7 and HP Recovery Manager Questions

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sercczionelabus, Apr 10, 2010.

  1. sercczionelabus

    sercczionelabus Notebook Enthusiast

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    1) In HP laptops with Windows 7 shipped, did it came with HP Recovery Manager? Recovery Partition?

    2) If so, then surely there must be a program available in the case of Vista's "Enhanced Backup and Recovery manager for Windows Vista". Am I right?

    3) If one deleted his Vista recovery partition and clean installed windows 7, then can he make a windows 7 based recovery partition? I read somewhere about this tool:

    C:\Windows\SMINST\RAMDSK\Windows\SYSTEM32\Shrink.exe

    4) Lastly, can I modify my bios to show that the OS Shipped is "Windows 7" not "Vista"?
     
    sercczionelabus, Apr 10, 2010
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  2. justinkw1

    justinkw1 Notebook Virtuoso

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    1) For both questions, yes -- the Recovery Manager and recover partition are included with laptops shipped with Windows 7.

    2) Yes, there is a version of this available for Windows 7.

    3) In general, no. You may also not be able to clone a recovery partition from another HP notebook that had Windows 7 pre-installed and use it on a notebook that was pre-installed with Windows Vista (since driver issues and other problems may occur).

    4) Given the fact that HP notebook BIOS are pretty locked to begin with, almost certainly no.
     
    justinkw1, Apr 11, 2010
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