How to Restore Windows Vista from the HP Recovery Partition With a Boot Problem
There may come a time when you want or
need to restore your HP Laptop to the original Windows Vista
factory installation. Doing a system restore is a common recommendation made by
H.P. tech support. Fortunately HP includes a system restore partition
right on the hard drive. But if you've made changes to your laptops boot loader,
like tried to dual boot it with Windows XP or Linux then the system
restore utility might not boot to the recovery partition anymore. This is usually an easy problem to fix.
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Instructions
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Back up ALL of your files. Everything
you can think of: documents, pictures, spreadsheets, emails you've
downloaded that you want to save, web browser bookmarks, iTunes
library etc. You can save a lot of time by investing in an external
drive and copying everything to it. Otherwise you can use DVD's it
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Open the start menu, right click on
computer, select management. When the computer management window
opens, select storage disk management. You will see at least two
partitions one will be named System Recovery. -
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Right click on the System Recovery
Partition and click mark as active. A warning will displayed. Marking
this partition as active will restart the computer right in to the
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Shut down your laptop completely, then
restart the laptop. When the system restore starts select the option
for the original factory restore and follow the prompts.
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Tips & Warnings
This only works if your system recovery partition is intact. If you have removed that partition you will need to get recovery cd's from HP's website.
If you made system restore disks you can try using those.
An external hard drive saves time transferring data but isn't as reliable as disk backups.
Restoring the original factory install will destroy all your data.
This may not work on all HP and Compaq models.
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- Photo Credit Vivek Chugh
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Comments
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Thank you for posting these instructions. It helped me to fix my friend's HP Pavilion a6700y desktop which was corrupted with MANY bad image errors. In fact, System Recovery has already reformatted the hard disk and is restoring everything to factory defaults as I type this note.
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Thank you for posting these instructions. It helped me to fix my friend's HP Pavilion a6700y desktop which was corrupted with MANY bad image errors. In fact, System Recovery has already reformatted the hard disk and is restoring everything to factory defaults as I type this note.
