Create a Recovery Disc

well there was nothing on it to start with, it was new i bought it from currys yesterday, apprently it was meant to have it already installed on there. thats why im so gutted as it shudnt of happened. i havnt tried the F11 i know the vista is on there just not booting up. i didnt get no disc with it. my model is advent T9608 UK. thanks

floobs, take it back to currys and get one that works

well i am going too, but i was seeing if i could solve it first as i live a far way from where i got it from plus im working so was checking if i could do out first.
damnn thing!! dont go currys haha

Hi Floobs,

Your computer model number comes back as a Advent computer. They do not seem to have much of a site though, but I did find this. You will need to press F10 every second during boot up until you get to the recovery partition screen.

Recovery and Recovery Disk FAQs - read before posting : Advent Recovery Disk Support • Advent Laptop/Computer Support •

If this does not fix it, then I would take it back to Currys as John posted above. A new computer should not be doing this.

Shawn

thanks for your help anyway

Your welcome Floobs. I hope they get it sorted for you.

Hello Brink,

First of all my compliments for the very full detailed instructions you are giving on this Forum.

This is my first post here.

Briefly:
I bought a new laptop: HP Pavilion dv6230br, it has been supplied without the Vista installation disks.
This machine has an hidden partition as D:\ volume, containing the recovery files.
I have repeatedly failed the creation of the recovery disks.
I was able to burn the recovery DVD, but then this never boots up the system:
After Windows filesystem loads, I see an error messages on the screen stating something as:
"This computer is not compliant with this version of Recovery".
I also tried to make an ISO of the D:\ ,than I tried to burn it on a new DVD, but it doesn't boots; perhaps something is missing on my attempt.
Question1:
Is that possible to use recdisc.exe to create the Recovery disks using the D:\ partition as source, instead of the Vista installation DVD?
Question2:
Is there any alternative way to make the Recovery disk?

Many Thanks.

BR,

Hi BR,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

Did you make sure that you downloaded and used the correct 32 bit or 64 bit ISO version for your version of Vista?

Q1) Sorry, you will not be able to create a Recovery Disc using recdisc.exe with your HP recovery partition.

Q2) You could borrow a friends Vista installation DVD to use to make you a Recovery Disc using recdisc.exe instead.

Hope this help,
Shawn

Yes, it did.
BR

BR,

I'm glad to hear that you got it sorted. Thank you for the feedback.

Shawn