HP Support Forums

Join in the conversation.

Search the Community
turn on suggestions Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
This HP Community is for Customer to Customer Product Support. First Time Here? Check Out Videos on How to Search, Register, Post and More.

Need urgent help with compaq recovery partition (1140 Views)
Reply
Reply
Topic Options
joshv06 Student
Student
joshv06
Posts: 1
Registered: ‎09-13-2009
Message 1 of 1 (1,140 Views)
Report Inappropriate Content

Need urgent help with compaq recovery partition

[ Edited ]

‎09-13-2009 03:54 PM - edited ‎09-13-2009 03:56 PM

Hello all,

I need help with compaq recovery partition.

My freind was having problems booting into windows xp, so I installed a fresh xp on another partition. I saw:

Partition1 200gb  200gb free
unalocated disk space  8mb
pariton 2 8gb   .5gb free

so I assumed the previous xp was installed on partition 2 and her files were on there as well since partition 1 was clean. I formated the partition 1 and installed xp on there, assuming I could retrive her files on partition 2 when it booted in. So xp installed and I click on the second partition in my computer, and I get a message saying that it's a compaq recovery partition. I need to retrive her files, they must be on the recovery partition because it's 8gb and it's almost full. And nothing was on the first partition. How to I retrieve the files?

Thanks,

Josh
Message Edited by joshv06 on 09-13-2009 03:56 PM
0
Reply
0
Please use plain text.