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03-20-2017 01:53 AM
Got my HP Pavilion h8-1234 desktop about 5 years ago. It came with Windows 7 and has a D partition on the main drive for System Recovery.
I have upgraded to Windows 10. Does the D partition information get updated when you update Windows so that if I were to do a System Recovery, it would recover with Windows 10?
Or will it only recover back to Windows 7?
Thanks.
Don
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03-20-2017 02:36 AM
No.
It does not get updated.
If you use it or media created with the Recovery media creator utility, you will be able to recover you PC to Windows 7.
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03-20-2017 02:36 AM
No.
It does not get updated.
If you use it or media created with the Recovery media creator utility, you will be able to recover you PC to Windows 7.
I am a volunteer forum member, not an HP employee. If my suggestion solved your issue, don't forget to mark that post as the accepted solution. If you want to say thanks, click on the Yes button next to the "was this reply helpful?"
03-20-2017 07:30 AM
The Win10 Upgrade is know to corrupt the Recovery partition stored there by the OEM that built the original machine. This pretty much guarantees that no HP Recovery is going to work: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Video-Display-and-Touch/HP-Recovery-Manager-Blocked-After-Windo...
This means that RESET no longer works on your laptop due to your doing the Win10 Upgrade.
Also means that trying to create HP Recovery Media now is also likely to fail.
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03-20-2017 12:07 PM
03-20-2017 12:13 PM
@erico wrote:No.
It does not get updated.
If you use it or media created with the Recovery media creator utility, you will be able to recover you PC to Windows 7.
Hey erico, that brings up another question:
If I reformat my D partition and use it for storage, would this cause me any problems?
Does the HP software have links to files on the D drive that would create problems with some of the user interfaces if these links were no longer valid?
03-20-2017 12:48 PM
Using the F11 key to invoke the recovery manager has links to the recovery partition. That is where the recovery manager lives, in amanner of speaking.
If you do not want it to work and have already created recovery media then using it as storage is OK.
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