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    Boot to HP Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ebotee, Sep 18, 2008.

  1. ebotee

    ebotee Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a HP dv9743cl notebook.
    After putting up with HP's preloaded bloatware, I decided to restore using normal a normal Vista DVD. Vista works fine and I have installed all drivers so I have complete functionality. However, I lost the ability to enter the Recovery Partition which I left on the primary hard drive. I used GParted Live CD to successfully boot into the recovery partition. However, I cannot figure out how to make Vista the default boot OS and still be able to boot into Recovery Partition by pressing F11. Does anyone know of a solution so that I could boot into recovery partition by pressing F11 while keeping Vista as the default as usual?

    Thanks in Advance. :)
     
    ebotee, Sep 18, 2008
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