System recovery

[Anonymous]

I accidentally reset my hard drive . I have recovery media which l have got with my pc. But I can't reinstall windows using that recovery media. What should I do?

[WAWood]

@Anonymous 

The recovery media SHOULD have worked, but if you drive was failing, of course, it will not.

Saying just you "can't reinstall" tells us nothing useful; instead, you need to provide details of what you did and what errors you encountered in the process.

[Anonymous]

Sir I just want to know that " does resetting the hard drive has anything to do with the working of recovery CD " When I put the CD in the notebook and tried to boot through it, there was no option to boot through it in boot device options. I think my pc could not recognize it as bootable media. I'm saying so because it could boot with the Ubuntu recovery CD but not with the one for windows.

[WAWood]

@Anonymous 

I'm not aware of HP Recovery Media being only a single CD.  The media I have for my older DV6 consists of several DVDs and a driver CD.  If you booted from what was the driver CD, that might not have worked.

Doing a built-in System Reset does not use the Recovery media, but instead, uses the Recovery partition -- and if that is corrupted in any way (which can happen routinely over time), that build-in reset will not work and you then have to resort to using HP Recovery Media.

[Anonymous]

I booted through this one. 

[Anonymous]

just one more question " can this CD be used to install windows on another computer? ". Will it work?  Is it legal? 

[Anonymous]

Sir, My recovery CD has started working somehow. I have one more confusion that is,  my computer came with dual boot system i.e. windows and Ubuntu, and I am just going to install windows now. Will this cause some problem ?

As the recovery CD says it will return the hard drive to factory configuration. 

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

First of all, the disk is NOT a CD, but a DVD -- as clearly indicated on the label -- as a CD is not big enough to hold the files needed for full recovery media.

Second, recovery using that starts with reformatting the ENTIRE drive -- and that will remove all partitions on the drive, including any you used for Linux.  There is no way around that, as that is how the recovery works.

[Anonymous]

I am sure it will be formatting the entire drive. 

I want to know " will recovery be working without using Ubuntu  DVD to install it ? " . 

I have read somewhere else that windows and Ubuntu uses different file formats . That's why, Ubuntu partition is not available to use while booting in windows. 

Using the recovery DVD will return the hard drive to factory configuration . It means it will also create a partition for Ubuntu to be installed with different file format . And as I said earlier " I am not going to install it ". Will this cause any trouble?  

I am asking this question because I have passed through similar situations ( according to me). On my another HP notebook ( with dual boot i.e. windows and BOSS Linux ) l accidentally deleted BOSS Linux partition to get more space on C drive ( on which windows was installed) . This caused the failure of complete system. I was unable to boot in windows and BOSS Linux.

That's why I think, not having any of the operating system cause the failure of complete system.