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‎06-27-2018 11:38 PM - edited ‎06-27-2018 11:40 PM

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@varn1x

Just to add my 2 cents. Have you not made your Windows 7 Recovery Media? If you have them you could conceivably try the clean install of Windows 10 and still have a way back. Of course as Paul mentioned there are no drivers for Win 10 so probably futile to try.

It never hurts to have Recovery Media- can't predict when a hard drive will fail and have to be replaced and you would need them.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01867124

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‎06-28-2018 05:58 PM

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@CheryIG sorry for the late reply.

I did make my Windows 7 Recovery Media. I might actually do a Windows 7 clean install instead because whenever I restore the machine to factory conditions using HP Recovery Manager software, it runs too slow (slower than when I first bought it. Not as slow as Windows 10 though.

 

If I do a Windows 7 clean install, it's supposed to delete/corrupt my recovery partition, right?

Is there any difference between a clean install and (a factory reset + removing HP bloatware)?

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‎06-28-2018 08:52 PM - edited ‎06-28-2018 10:14 PM

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@varn1x

Usually a clean install does boost performance as opposed to using HP Recovery Manager or Recovery Media. As for clean install corrupting recovery partition actually when doing a clean install you should delete both partitions-recovery and c- and install on the unallocated space. If you later booted with Recovery Media it would recreate the recovery partition.

As a side note-if you are still using the original hard drive it is aging at this point and will likely run slower than when new. A new SATA 7200RPM hdd or a SATA SSD (if budget allows) would probably give a performance boost-especially an SSD. Just keep in mind that if you ever want to use the Recovery Media to restore to factory that it requires the same capacity drive as the original.

Maintenance and Service Guide if needed:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pavilion-dv6-6b00-entertainment-notebook-pc-series/5145688/m...

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‎07-01-2018 02:55 PM

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@CheryIG thank you for the great reply. Glad to hear if I booted with Recovery Media, recovery partition will be back. 

Honestly, it's not worth it to buy an SSD for such an old machine, it's not my main computer anyway. 

 

I hope you have a great day! 

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