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August 13th, 2009, 03:39 PM
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HP Pavilion a800n Recovery
Hello. I have an HP Pavilion a800n that I bought second hand. I asked the person who sold it to me if there were any restore disks. They only said it had a Recovery
Partition I could use (caveat emptor!). I want to restore the disk to its original condition.
The Recovery partition (H:HP_RECOVERY) is accessible as I am able to list its contents in Windows Explorer.
It appears that at some time in the past Recovery disks were created as there aren't any Recovery program menus under Start-->Programs. No Creator.exe on H: drive
for creating recovery disks only H:\TOOLS\windows\CREATOR\Tool CD.INP exists there.
I created a DOS boot disk, booted from it, ran FDISK, changed Active partition to H: and rebooted. The system appeared to accept the change of H: as Active but I when
I tried to boot PC hangs with blinking cursor in upper left hand corner of screen.
On the H:RECOVERY partition there exists a MiniNT\system32\start file. If I issue
"MiniNT\system32\start.exe /run" from a DOS prompt while in the current Windows XP OS, will this start the restore operation?
I don't have any other recovery media so I don't want to start something that will leave me with an inoperable system. I already know I can purchase either a new
copy of XP Home or contact HP for Recovery Disks but I'd kind of like to use the existing files on the H: drive as long as they are already there.
Many thanks for any suggestions.
-William
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August 13th, 2009, 09:19 PM
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Registered User
I'm not sure what you did by changing the active partition to H, but the HP recovery partition is desigened to boot when you hold down f10 when the system is turned on
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August 15th, 2009, 03:46 PM
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