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HP Pavilion dv7t-4100

I am getting this old laptop ready for sale. I booted to a USB drive and wiped the C: partition, where Windows 7 was installed. I then reformatted it in NTFS and set it as the active partition.

 

When I rebooted and pressed F11 to get to System Recovery, I get a message there is no operating system on the C drive.

 

How can I do a factory reset at this point? The recovery partition is still there, I checked, so that's good. I have ISOs for the recovery CDs, but i would need to burn them to disk to use them. Is there a way to perform the factory reset from the recovery partition, without going through the hassle of doing this? I heard that there might be an option to boot from a USB drive?

 

Thanks in advance

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Didn't work. I guess I'll need to go buy some CDs 😕

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Hi,

 

Instead of marking the C partition as active, try setting the Recovery partition D as active, then restart and see if it boots into the Recovery Manager application.

 

Regards,

 

DP-K

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Didn't work. I guess I'll need to go buy some CDs 😕

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