Try to use the recovery partition on my laptop

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rody

Hello,

I have a laptop (compaq presario V6000) and my wife could not boot it
anymore. My wife went to the computershop and the people there told her we
had to re- install Windows again. So she did.

Then i came home and was not so happy with this advice.....On the hard disk
there is a partition called RECOVERY located on D:\.
Normally you can re-install Windows from this partition and it give's you
back youre original settings like when the notebook was new. Now i can not
choose to install from this partition because she reinstalled it from a
normal Windows XP cd from the neighbours............So the link to this
recovery in the boot menu is gone.

The recovery directory on D:\ is still there, but seems to bee empty. But
when i try to view the files with the good old ATTRIB -H *.* then it shows 4
file names:

desktop.ini
warning.bmp
protect.ed
folder.htt

But these files are hidden and i can not do anything with them. (copy or
what ever).

IS there anyone out here who can point me to a direction to solve my
problem? As you can guess i didn't make a recovery disk (as i should
have......)


Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Rody
 
rody said:
Hello,

I have a laptop (compaq presario V6000) and my wife could not boot it
anymore. My wife went to the computershop and the people there told her we
had to re- install Windows again. So she did.

Then i came home and was not so happy with this advice.....On the hard
disk there is a partition called RECOVERY located on D:\.
Normally you can re-install Windows from this partition and it give's you
back youre original settings like when the notebook was new. Now i can not
choose to install from this partition because she reinstalled it from a
normal Windows XP cd from the neighbours............So the link to this
recovery in the boot menu is gone.

The recovery directory on D:\ is still there, but seems to bee empty. But
when i try to view the files with the good old ATTRIB -H *.* then it shows
4 file names:

desktop.ini
warning.bmp
protect.ed
folder.htt

But these files are hidden and i can not do anything with them. (copy or
what ever).

IS there anyone out here who can point me to a direction to solve my
problem? As you can guess i didn't make a recovery disk (as i should
have......)
Click to expand...

Contact HP tech support and order the recovery disks. They are quite
inexpensive. Use them to return the computer to factory condition.

Malke
 
Hi Malke,

Thanks for the quick response, but i would like to try to reinstall the path
in the bootmenu insteat off ordering a recovery disk

Is that not possible?

B.r,
Rody
 
rody said:
Hi Malke,

Thanks for the quick response, but i would like to try to reinstall the
path in the bootmenu insteat off ordering a recovery disk

Is that not possible?
Click to expand...

Generally no.

Malke
 
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