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i have a twinhead laptop with vista buisness installed on it,
now,when the laptop begins,after the memory test, it comes up with "f4 for restore"
originally if you press f4 it will install a fresh copy of vista again,
so i wanted to free up some space and remove the partition,
so i deleted the partition but still on startup the f4 restore still comes up,but it wont work cause the partition is removed,
how do i get rid of it?
im presuming there is a command in the vista startup files,
ive looked into it with no answer,closest i could find is im assuming i need to use the bcdedit.exe feature,
the laptop still boots up in wondows fine,so i have no issues,
just want to remove that message.
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You would have to edit your BIOS and reflash it.
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if you put a fresh copy of windows,the message doesnt show up,
we have 2 of these notebooks in workshop,hence why i worked out it wasnt a bios issue,
just remember,after the bios load up,the message appears then vista starts loading up,
theres obviously a command somewhere which i need to remove,
just like the old windows how you had boot.ini and ntldr -
Then it would be in the bootloader. I know IBM does the same thing, but theres is embedded in the BIOS.
Edit your bootloader in Vista -
finally worked it out:
basically,i used easybcd,it wouldnt show the f4 command for some reason,hidden or what,i dont know,
so what i did was i went to the section where it says diagnostics center,i then clicked on reset bcd storage and clicked on rescue my system,
restarted my laptop,and its gone,perfect,
removing recovery feature from startup
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by tony56k, May 20, 2008.