need to recover boot options HP laptop recovery

[Guest forensics]

freythman4312062 Wrote:

 

> I hate to bring an 11 month old post back from the grave, but I thought

 

> I'd throw in my 2 cents worth. Today I had a customer that wanted to

 

> "upgrade" from Vista to XP. They had a retail copy of XP, so I said, "No

 

> Problem." Well, I couldn't find any drivers for the laptop, but I failed

 

> to look until after I installed XP, of course..., right? So... the built

 

> in System Recovery from Windows and the F11 Recovery were both disabled,

 

> but the partition was still there. I followed these instructions and

 

> BOOM! I'm back in business. I have a happy customer, and I get to get

 

> some sleep tonight. Thanks!

 

>

 

> Laptop model was HP dv9817cl

 

>

 

> This is how to restore your recovery partition. Thanks!

 

>

 

> Well, I had no idea for sure... Sounds kind of devious.

 

>

 

> I just scoured Google for hours over the span of a couple of days and

 

> decided since it was that hard for me to find, that I'd post the

 

> solution that worked for me on as many forums as I could. Namely, the

 

> ones that came up higher on the list of results on Google under "Repair

 

> HP Recovery Partition", "Access HP Recovery Partition", etc....

 

>

 

> I could care less for newsgroups. It's almost like having "another"

 

> inbox to check....

 

>

 

> Wow. You guys are like viscous beast monkeys locked in a cage with only

 

> one banana. It's like you're waiting for somebody to post something you

 

> disagree with just so you can pounce on them. I find that sad. I'm sorry

 

> for the mental trauma you guys apparently live with.

 

 

 

AND????? You followed what instructions?

 

 

 

This F11 is crap. HP needs to send out disks with its computers instead

 

of charging for them!

 

 

 

 

 

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