HP Recovery Manager "System Recovery" option disabled

[jsh-]

When I launch HP Recovery Manager to recover my system, the "System Recovery" option is greyed out and has the message "Disabled: Please use Recovery Media to recover your system." I don't have any recovery media (apart from the D:/ 'recovery' drive, if that counts.) What should I do?

[ManjunathTech]

Hi 

Try this

1. Click Start , right-click Computer , and then select the Manage option.
2. In the left panel of the Computer Management window, double-click Storage to expand the options.
   click Disk Management to display a list of partitions, also called Volumes .
3. Right-click the Recovery partition (D:) , and select the Activate Volume option.

[jsh-]

Hi, there is no 'Activate volume option', but there is a 'Reactivate Volume' option that is greyed out, so I'm assuming the volume is already activated.

[ManjunathTech]

Hi

Please check this link by Erico might help you.

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/Recovery-partition-is-there-but...

[hjkim]

Hi, jsh:

I am suffering from the same problem that you mentioned above. 

I am wondering how you made this fixed. 

Did you make it without inserting CD?

Thanks,

[vedant_raj]

@ManjunathTech

Erico's article is about recovery manager not starting. Here recovery manager is starting but in that the system recovery option in that is greyed out and disabled.

Though I have recovery media (pen drive), I still want to know why recovery from laptop's hard disk partition is disabled.

[Princyemmy]

Manjunath tech
Pls I mistakenly formatted my recovery partition and now I can't do a system's recovery...please what do I do?

[Princyemmy]

Please i'm only getting the format,shrink volume,delete volume options? Any ideas why?
Thanks