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    can you Restore the HP recovery parition?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by lastdon, Nov 23, 2008.

  1. lastdon

    lastdon Notebook Evangelist

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    I had deleted teh HP recovery console, but i had made the back up dvds
    a few sets of them to be honest for safe keeping.

    but what i want to know

    can you restore the HP partition on the laptop?
    is there a way to get the Parition back on?

    I did a full factory recover from the dvd's thinking it might add the parition but nothing of that.

    let me know

    thans
     
    lastdon, Nov 23, 2008
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  2. darkmax

    darkmax Notebook Enthusiast

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    you can call HP to send a Recovery CD that gives you the HP Partition..
     
    darkmax, Nov 23, 2008
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  3. S_P_Q_R

    S_P_Q_R Notebook Evangelist

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    Why can't you just re-partition your hard drive and copy the contents of the recovery disc's to it?
     
    S_P_Q_R, Nov 24, 2008
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  4. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Why do you want the HP recovery partition when you have the restore DVD's?

    They both do the same thing.
     
    flipfire, Nov 24, 2008
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  5. deeastman

    deeastman Notebook Deity

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    Are you sure you did a FULL factory recovery? There are two recovery options, one which just does some file recoveries, and then a more advanced which does the full factory recovery including reformatting the drive. The full should take an hour of two to complete.

    I asked as the recovery partition should be there after a full recovery.
     
    deeastman, Nov 24, 2008
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