[Peter Antimatter]

Hi Again.

I just came across what alecks2010 said which was,

'The following is for guys who has two partitions: primary and recovery, primary has been deleted, and F11 or ALT+F11 keys don't work. Someone advice to delete primary partition and to make recovery partition primary, well ... that's not enough, you also need to make such partition bootable.
1. Delete primary partition: I used windows 7 DVD to delete such partition, of course there are others methods
2. Make recovery partition primary: Use this link
3. Make partition bootable: I used Ubuntu live CD, I run GParted then I saw only one partition, right click in that partition, choose 'Manage Flags' and select 'Boot'
When I rebooted the computer I didn't have to press F11 or anything, it goes right into the Recovery partition'

It seems that this case applies to me but I can't be 100% sure.

In my 'Computer' directory I have a recovery E drive and in this there is a file called 'recovery'. This file is about 21 Gig. Am I correct to assume that if I deleted the C drive and make the E recovery driver my new 'C drive' that I will have my computer back to the way it was before? Because that is exactly what I would like.

If someone could respond it would be great because I have my thesis to complete and all I would like to be able to restore all my important software like Matlab, word 2007.

Cheers
Peter

[DPalmz]

I have the notebook posted above and it's running windows vista home premium edition. It was performing an automatic update and now it won't start up. It gets to the screen where is says
"Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete"
Do not turn off your computer.
It hangs there for 20-30 seconds, no advancements in the 0%, then just automatically reboots itself. I've tried starting from last known good configuration and in safe mode and safe mode with command prompt...It just does the same thing. gets to that screen and reboots. I just need to get into windows so i can
HO Pavilion dv6700
Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2370
3 Gig Memory

[ripshirt]

minwinpc can not load backup on vista tried everthing

[ian30]

Originally Posted by mindas22

I know how to activate if F11 does not help to start recovery.

If U can access to START > Control Panel > Administrative tools or shorter way:

START > run > compmgmt.msc and press enter

then Disk management

Find which is recovery partition

Make Mark partition as Active

Then restart pc.

Hi all i registered just to say thank you for your help in getting my HP pavilion back to its factory settings.

[basillica]

I was so hoping this would work for me... but for some reason my recovery drive is on C:/ and windows runs from D:/. I can't select the option "Mark partition as active" because the drive is already marked as "system"... any advice on what to do?

[Tipstaff]

Originally Posted by basillica

I was so hoping this would work for me... but for some reason my recovery drive is on C:/ and windows runs from D:/. I can't select the option "Mark partition as active" because the drive is already marked as "system"... any advice on what to do?

If this is a Windows 7 machine double check the size of that "C" partition. It's most likely not the recovery partition, but the system information partition that Windows creates for Bitlocker (regardless of whether you have an OS that supports it Windows 7 creates it unless you manually set the partitions up before hand).

[engg.gpant]

I Have hp pavillion dv6 windows7 i was creating recovery media which required 3 dvd's. I inserted the 1st dvd n it mentioned 4 steps: insert disc , prepare data, burn data n last was Verify Disc now in the last stage of dvd 1, the recovery hung up @ 12%complete its been 3-4 hours now!! wat do i do?? the dvd is full as no space is left so should i remove the dvd and try inserting another dvd will the process continue for next dvd!!?? Im frustated i cant even shut down my laptop!! plzzz suggest something ASAP!! Will ALT + F1 help in this case or wat shud i do??