HP Recovery Manager Application Update

[sky_ksw]

Hello,

I've been wondering about this since I first upgraded to Windows 7.

After upgrading to Win 7, the recovery function (F11) wouldn't work on my system. I've found that if I install sp44455.exe it would resolve the problem. But it gives me an error "The update did not complete sucessfully . (259)"

I did some search and found that if I did a clean install (which I did) this update wouldn't work.

I never touched HP partition D: and I want to know if I can recover them.

Anyone can help me?

[Hanspuppa · Accepted solution]

Hello sky_ksw, It seems that when you perform a fresh installation, the Master Boot Records gets rewritten. This would account for the F-11 procedure not working.

If you had performed an upgrade from Vista, the Master Boot Record would have remained intact.

Can you advise if the Windows 7 install was from the HP Windows 7 upgrade or a Retail version?

If so, the HP Windows 7 upgrade set also has another application and drivers disk that should be used.

The only way to go back to the original Vista installation now, would be to order a set of HP Recovery Restore Disk.

The service pack you list is not intended to correct the issue you seem to have with the F-11 key not accessing the HP Recovery Restore partition.

It shows:

Enables System Recovery on systems upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7.

Resolves issue with the system booting into Windows instead of the recovery partition when pressing the F11 key.

This suggest an upgrade and not a fresh install.

[sky_ksw]

Hello

Clean install was from HP Win7 Upgrade.

I should've made an recovery disk when I still had Vista. lol

Thanks!