HP OS Recovery Disc-Hp Recovery Manager

[CherylG]

@Vanillaman

Are you booting from the disks?

[evanderryd]

I booted from the HP supplied disks.

After much frustration, I gave up and installed manually with using the HP recovery tools.

Works fine this way.

[djbele]

I was creating the recovery disks and got and error on disk 2. 1 & 3 seem fine. I cannot repeat the process as it only allows it once. What can I do?

[Vanillaman]

I tried booting from disks too, but still got the same error messages. UPDATE: I just got my computer back from the repair shop. They said it was a major hd failure. I have had it since 2006. They said that the reason why this was happening was because it could not access the partition on my hard drive, due to it being so damaged. This means i can no longer do a recovery, so they gave me another copy of Windows XP Home Edition instead.

I'm interested in this HP Recovery Tools. What is that, and where do i find it??

[lakeville-tom]

I updated the BIOS, and that didn't help...don't know anything about tattoo's, strings, and don't want a piercing either - to old for much of this nonsense.

I give up!

I bought a Toshiba laptop for the kid and and junking the HP desktop for parts - disappointed that part of what they sell is bunk...

Thanks for your suggestions however, even though for me, it was an epic fail......

[CherylG]

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djbele wrote:

I was creating the recovery disks and got and error on disk 2. 1 & 3 seem fine. I cannot repeat the process as it only allows it once. What can I do?

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 Contact HP and tell them your software failed to burn correctly.Usually they will send a set out free if you are still within warranty. If out of warranty, still pretty reasonable at less than $20 (last time I ordered).

[kordell11]

hi,

so im having some major problems when im trying to reformat my computer. first off i have a hp pavilion about 5 years old  that runs windows xp. i've had to reformat in the past and i have 2 system recovery discs that i've used in the past and have worked. however this time when i try to run them i get to the black and white screen where it says "preparing recovery partition" it gets about 2 minutes in and then says "wrong system disk or disk error, press any key to continue". after i press any key it takes me back to the startup page where i can enter setup, let the operating system load (which i normally do when computer starts up) or go to the boot menu. if i dont go to the boot menu and tell it to run the recovery cd it just gets stuck on a black screen with a blinking cursor. but when i run the recovery cd i get the said error message over and over and over and over...when i do go to the boot menu and choose the recovery disc option a black screen comes up that says "no operating system installed or corrupt partition, press r to start full system recovery". im guessing that the corrupt partition part is whats causing me problems. WHAT DO I DO!? IM SO CONFUSED, i hope that by reading this your not also confused.

please help!

[kordell11]

to clarify on my previous post, after i press r to run the full system recovery, thats how i get to the "preparing recovery partition" screen, which always has an error after about 2 mins od loading.

[CherylG]

@kordell11

You may need a new hdd. It sounds like the Recovery Disks can't write to the hdd.

[kordell11]

how do i get a new hdd?