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HP Pavilion DV5t 2000
Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

I have a HP Pavilion DV5t 2000 laptop and when I first got it I made the Recovery DVD's and put them in a Soft DVD flip case. After years of use and getting pop ups to upgrade the OS, I di to Windows 10. Everything went well on the Upgrade but I do not like the Windows 10. It is a computer not a phone. So I tried running the recovery disk and each time booting from the dvd I get a Memory Overflow Error and never goes into restore, just boots back into 10, So I tried the making the recovery partition active and rebooted. It went into recovery mode back to factory state but now when I try re burning the recovery disk to a USB thumb drive I get the " Already burnt the disk one" screen Is there anyway to reset the number to zero in the recovery partition so I can get the USB Recovery for when and if the hard drive fails completely?  Thanks

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@TonyBertram 

To answer your question -- basically NO.  HP only allows one pass at recovery media creation, and once that is used up, you can't do it a second time.

 

Additionally, the Win10 Upgrade is known to corrupt the contents of the HP recovery partition, so even if you could try to create the media again, that media would not work.

 

As to Win10 working like a phone, my guess is that you are using the default Start menu -- which I and many others despise. 

You should look into start menu replacements, as some of them, like Open-Shell, can make the Win10 desktop look and work a lot like Win7 -- bringing a familiar look-and-feel back to the desktop.



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