System Recovery Problem

[tw8715]

I have a HP Mini 210-1091NR

Windows 7 Starter is not booting so if i press ESC when starting up it takes me to the startup menu where is give me a list of choices.

F1 System info

F2 Ststem diagnostics

F9 Boot device options

F10 BIOS setup

F11 System recovery

so when i press F11 all it give me is a black screen with an white underscore ( _ ) blinking.

HELP how do i restore my computer?? I have no other backups or a cd rom drive.

thank you

[tw8715]

help anyone?

[CherylG]

Try F10. Use Diagnostics to test your hard drive.

[Steph_roxy]

I'm having the same problem. I ran all the test and it passed them , but still will not load helpppp

[tw8715]

Well I jut formatted the computer and it's all good now. But my wifi dosnt want to find any networks

[Steph_roxy]

How did you do it?

[tw8715]

i used this to put windows onto a use thumb drive

http://wudt.codeplex.com/

and download windows 7 32bit in a iso file

then boot from usb

BUT be warned i did this and everything is great but can detect and wifi sources

[tw8715]

GOT my WIFI to finally work.

had to get drivers for BIOS!

[MCSE481]

Well you aren't the only one this has happened to. If your Master Boot Record is trashed then you will not boot to Windows 7 or F11 recovery. HP does not provide a boot recovery disk. If you did not make a recovery DVD then you must order a reinstall set of disks from HP.  If you have critical data which you need HP solution will only reformat the disk and restore to factory condition. Isn't that sweet. Well this was my situation and here is what I did to at least get my data files. My system would go through the BIOS then Blue screen with STOP 7B followed by a blank screen blinking cursor in upper left corner.

1) Run diagnostics and check the HD and memory

2) search the internet for a turrent Windows 7 recovery. Download and make a bootable disk from the ISO image file (must be a DVD- disk)

3) Boot using the recovery image DVD 

3a) open a command prompt and run BOOTREC /FixMbr

       Now see if you can F11 to the recovery partition.

3b) one of the options is to backup your data, backup your data files now!

4) Next open a command prompt in recovery manager and run SFC /SCANNOW

     If this doesn't not find the problem then you have to proceed to the next step.

5)  Now here is the rub. Now that you have a backup, rebuild the system using your recovery partition. Oh yes this takes a while.

6) After rebuild insert the backup disks and use the application on the disk to restore the data. It will create a folder on the system and restore the users folders under it. You must copy the sub-folders to the original locations. Note this can only get your data back, you must reinstall all your applications. Isn't that lovely.

Manufacturers like HP and Dell drop the ball on doing anything but telling you can only rebuild the system by reformatting the drive and reinstall the OS to factory condition. I  hope my solution eases the pain and helps given the research I had to do.