need to recover boot options HP laptop recovery

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David Deley

I need to boot into drive D, the HP recovery partition, so I can restore
the HP laptop to it's original state, since it's all hopelessly messed
up, but I installed EasyBCD and told it to "Reinstall the Vista
bootloader". And now when I boot I no longer get the option to boot into
drive D.

How can I fix the Master Boot Record so I get the option to boot into
drive D?
 
Performing an HP System Recovery in Windows Vista
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...e=c00814731&cc=uk&lc=en&dlc=en&dlc=en&lang=en

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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I need to boot into drive D, the HP recovery partition, so I can restore
the HP laptop to it's original state, since it's all hopelessly messed
up, but I installed EasyBCD and told it to "Reinstall the Vista
bootloader". And now when I boot I no longer get the option to boot into
drive D.

How can I fix the Master Boot Record so I get the option to boot into
drive D?
 
Yea I've tried that:

-Start from Windows Vista, it says it will, then reboots back into Vista.

-Boot F11 no longer gives me the option to boot into Recovery Partition
drive D. (This is what I'm trying to add back.)

-Boot from Recovery Discs I made when it was new, it says, "This PC is
not supported by the System Recovery Discs. You will not be able to
continue to recover this system with these discs."
 
HP help is so awesome! Went into disk manager, right-clicked on
partition D and selected "set as active", reboot, and it booted into D.
Got my system restore going now...



(Vista still sucks though. Never had disk corruption problems on Windows
XP. Can't really reformat the hard drive every time a little disk
corruption happens because ChkDsk won't run on reboot for some unknown
who knows why. Registry and everything said chkdsk was set to run on
reboot, but it just doesn't.)

-D.D.
 
Obtaining a HP Recovery CD or DVD set:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/fastFaqLiteDocument?lc=en&cc=uk&dlc=en&docname=bph07143

or

Chat with HP Support:
http://h50203.www5.hp.com/hpisweb/customer/HPInstantsupport.aspx?&cc=us&lang=en


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

---------------------------------------------------------------

:

Yea I've tried that:

-Start from Windows Vista, it says it will, then reboots back into Vista.

-Boot F11 no longer gives me the option to boot into Recovery Partition
drive D. (This is what I'm trying to add back.)

-Boot from Recovery Discs I made when it was new, it says, "This PC is
not supported by the System Recovery Discs. You will not be able to
continue to recover this system with these discs."
 
I don't know where you got those instructions. I have a HP Notebook
and I have never seen the instruction for how you did it. I have
either used the Recovery Discs that I got from HP and opened the DVD
drive, shut Windows down completely, put the DVD in and closing the
drive, powered the notebook back on, and then hit F11, and followed
the instructions on the screen. The other way I have done a recovery
to put the notebook back to the way when I first got it was open up HP
Total Care Advisor, click on the PC Help tab, click on Recovery
Manager, then followed the instructions on the screen.
 
I hate to bring an 11 month old post back from the grave,
Click to expand...

The "forum" that you are posting in leaches off the Microsoft News servers
in order to make it look far busier than it really is. Everyone who uses the
MS News servers sees your post on it's own - the thread that you have
"resurrected" is LONG gone from the MS (and other) news servers.

This is not your fault - the fault lies with the forum owners who do not
explain to members that their posts end up on global Usenet newsgroups.

You would be far better off however, using a news reader and subscribing to
these news groups direct.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx


Thank you
 
freythman said:
Well, I had no idea for sure... Sounds kind of devious.

I just scoured Google for hours over the span of a couple of days and
decided since it was that hard for me to find, that I'd post the
solution that worked for me on as many forums as I could. Namely, the
ones that came up higher on the list of results on Google under "Repair
HP Recovery Partition", "Access HP Recovery Partition", etc....

I could care less for newsgroups. It's almost like having "another"
inbox to check....


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http://forums.techarena.in
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And since I am not going to ever go to techarena to seek help you have
provided absolutely nothing to assist me or any other person as the "I
followed these instructions and BOOM! I'm back in business" don't exist.
Typed from a properly working HP laptop. It's working because I didn't and
won't follow the techarena and most other forum help areas.
 
Well, I had no idea for sure... Sounds kind of devious.

I just scoured Google for hours over the span of a couple of days and
decided since it was that hard for me to find, that I'd post the
solution that worked for me on as many forums as I could. Namely, the
ones that came up higher on the list of results on Google under "Repair
HP Recovery Partition", "Access HP Recovery Partition", etc....

I could care less for newsgroups. It's almost like having "another"
inbox to check....
Click to expand...

Then stay out of them.

As was explained to you, your posts are being placed in a newsgroup (by
vBulletin USENET gateway) where they are at best disruptive.
 
Wow. You guys are like viscous beast monkeys locked in a cage with only
one banana. It's like you're waiting for somebody to post something you
disagree with just so you can pounce on them. I find that sad. I'm sorry
for the mental trauma you guys apparently live with.
Click to expand...

No one has said anything about disagreeing with your posts - only the bad
tools you are using to create messed up posts and to mess up threads.

Get a real newsreader.

Bye bye.
 
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Gordon said:
The "forum" that you are posting in leaches off the Microsoft News servers
in order to make it look far busier than it really is. Everyone who uses the
MS News servers sees your post on it's own - the thread that you have
"resurrected" is LONG gone from the MS (and other) news servers.

This is not your fault - the fault lies with the forum owners who do not
explain to members that their posts end up on global Usenet newsgroups.

You would be far better off however, using a news reader and subscribing to
these news groups direct.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx


Thank you


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