Recovery Problem

I had made recovery discs form the Recovery drive in my laptop,leaving the drive as it is. The prob is now wen i want to recover from the Dvd's the first Dvd is getting hanged while recovering...Now i want to recover to default setting but now I have no idea what to do...????Pls help...???

Welcome

Go to Bios and set to boot from C drive. It is now set to cd or dvd

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I am booting from DVD ...But It is getting Hanged..Its stops in middle i mean...SO the recovery procedure is not complete...How do i recover now..the whole of recovery is in the dvd..If its getting hanged while booting How am i supposed to recover to original factory settings!!!????

Some mfg allow you to restore factory right from the computer. Try this
Laptop Recovery Instructions - Tech Support Forum

Fill out your system specs.

Thanks a lot mate...I will try it out and let u know soon...!!!

And will fill in the system specs too...!!!
Thank you.

Your welcome, we need those specs, if this does not work

I tried it out today but this is not working i tried it out the recovery page does not load itself...It directly goes to start up the windows...!!Now wat to do...!!I have uploaded my specs hope it will be enough..!!

P.S: Now am running Win7, my default version was Vista so i want to recover it back.

If you can find it use your computer manual to find out which key to use to get to factory specs. It may, also, be online. The information that I sent you may have changed.

yes i know out that its f11 instead of f10...I tried it too...The page is not directing me to recovery its loading the start up directly.

I had earlier mentioned you that i have made recovery discs which are getting stuck in between while recovering.But when i load it in the Dvd drive its opening with all the files after some time.

Try marking the HP recovery partition Active.

Restart and the HP recovery program should start up.

I suggest you get a free bootable partition manager and use that to mark it active.

Any issues, you can boot the Partition Wizard cd and mark the original active partition active again.

Free Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly ...

To mark a partition Active, Rt click it, select MODIFY>SET ACTIVE, then click Apply ( top left , or bottom left of main window )

Thank you SIW2 .


I successfully recovered back to my previous factory settings. Thanks for the help. I guess the recovery disc i made is of no use and .I wanted to use the OS for some more time but i failed to make the bootable CD so the system was going on to the recovery option so i had to recover ,no other go.
Can i have some hints on how to make that bootable CD for future use.I did not get the iso image where can i get it from.

Thanking you once again.

Hi,

Glad it worked for you.

There are a couple of ways.

I understand HP machines only allow you to run off one set of recovery discs.

There is a workaround which involves deleting every instance on the machine of HPCD.sys ( If you haven't got that , newer HP machines remaned it to HPDRCU.PDC ).


There are 2 or 3 of them . So you need to search and delete them. If you can't see inside the HP recovery partition with Windows Explorer, you can use a free File Explorer like the excellent FreeCommander to find them and then just rt click and delete them. ( you could rename them instead of deleting).

This is great for doing the job: Direct d/l FreeCommander_Portable_2009.paf.exe

Home page FreeCommander - freeware file manager

When you have got rid of them , you can run off another set of discs.

Otherwise HP will send you a set , allegedly free, but they charge quite a lot for shipping.


Another way is to go to folder options, make sure File extensions, Hidden files and protected operating system files are showing, and search the HD for an .iso

You might find it in a folder on your C drive, or on the Recovery partition.

If you find an .iso ( might be quite large ) you can burn it as an image direct to a recordable dvd. Don't format the recordable dvd - if Autoplay pops up, just close it.

You need an app. that burns images - good free one here: BurnCDCC http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm