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    win 8 clean install recovery partition

    Discussion in 'HP' started by cotton_mouth, Nov 4, 2012.

  1. cotton_mouth

    cotton_mouth Notebook Geek

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    I have been able to find answers to almost all my questions before I clean install windows 8 on my current PC.

    One question that I haven't been able to find an answer to is this:

    I currently am on the OEM version on win 7 that came with my PC. My recovery partition is still intact and I have created the recovery media out of it too. Currently, I can access recovery manager from the start menu and I can also boot from the recovery manager using F11.

    If I were to do a clean install of win 8 and leave my recovery partition intact, will I still be able to access the recovery partition using either the recovery manager from the start menu or F11?
     
    cotton_mouth, Nov 4, 2012
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  2. T2050

    T2050 Notebook Deity

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    I am just guessing here, but I would say that if you clean install leaving the HP partitions intact and formatting just the OS partition you should be ok. The F11 key if likley to work, but you would need the original HP recovery software for Windows 8, which I don't think HP supplies with older models?

    I am putting my money on the F11 key. But in anycase you should be ok with the recovery discs you created.
     
    T2050, Nov 6, 2012
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