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‎01-25-2013 09:26 AM

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Yes but now can't get back into the control panel to undo it

‎01-25-2013 10:30 AM - last edited on ‎04-19-2016 12:24 PM by HP Administrator

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I'm afraid to say that IMHO if you've partitioned the H/D, there is no way back. UNLESS you follow the post from DarkinVader from May 2011 who wrote:

After trying everything you wrote and of course neither worked for me  The 1 click restoration became a real nightmare but after one day of trying I succeeded 

In my final desperation luckily I found a workaround 

 

His solution:

- make a rescue disc with Backup & Recovery (Advanced) Free Edition  

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free -

actually I made it with a pendrive

- boot the laptop with this "disc"

- there is an option (the fourth in my version) to search for possible operating systems on the laptop

- this found my installed Win7 on my drive C and the Vista recovery partition on drive D

- select the vista recovery partition to boot and halelujah :smileyhappy:

 

 

OR you Contact HP to order a Recovery Disk set.

People have been having this problem since 2008 when an HP person posted:

Recovery Media is available on the Software/Drivers page for your model.Usually around $16:

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=2100&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=3689...

also see

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/bph07143 

 

Good luck!

 

‎07-24-2013 02:35 PM

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Hey DARKinVADER, your solution really works! Thank you so much!

‎08-27-2013 11:56 AM

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Thank you Paragon Backup & Recovery (Advanced) Free Edition  worked out for me very well. I have my Machine on again and restoring it to factory conditions,

 

Thanks again

‎04-29-2014 04:36 PM

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@uslokar wrote:

Thank you very much for getting back to me so fast.


I have to apologize as I did not explain my problem in the right way. Technically I am able to boot the partition, but the problem occurs when the partition needs to boot into WinRE or WinPE I guess so that the recovery can start. The loading process gets stuck immediately at the beginning even before anything "Windows related stuff" starts loading. So about five seconds after I turn on the computer and boot into the recovery partition, or pressing F11 the error that I'm describing shows up.

 

Update:

 

I managed to fix my problem. After setting the recovery partition to active, and booting from the installation USB with windows 7, I managed to fix the mbr that was corrupted and the partition didn't know what to boot. So after fixing it, i had no problem running the recovery.

 

Thank you!

@uslokar wrote:

Thank you very much for getting back to me so fast.


I have to apologize as I did not explain my problem in the right way. Technically I am able to boot the partition, but the problem occurs when the partition needs to boot into WinRE or WinPE I guess so that the recovery can start. The loading process gets stuck immediately at the beginning even before anything "Windows related stuff" starts loading. So about five seconds after I turn on the computer and boot into the recovery partition, or pressing F11 the error that I'm describing shows up.

 

Update:

 

I managed to fix my problem. After setting the recovery partition to active, and booting from the installation USB with windows 7, I managed to fix the mbr that was corrupted and the partition didn't know what to boot. So after fixing it, i had no problem running the recovery.

 

Thank you!

@uslokar wrote:

Thank you very much for getting back to me so fast.


I have to apologize as I did not explain my problem in the right way. Technically I am able to boot the partition, but the problem occurs when the partition needs to boot into WinRE or WinPE I guess so that the recovery can start. The loading process gets stuck immediately at the beginning even before anything "Windows related stuff" starts loading. So about five seconds after I turn on the computer and boot into the recovery partition, or pressing F11 the error that I'm describing shows up.

 

Update:

 

I managed to fix my problem. After setting the recovery partition to active, and booting from the installation USB with windows 7, I managed to fix the mbr that was corrupted and the partition didn't know what to boot. So after fixing it, i had no problem running the recovery.

 

Thank you!




‎09-12-2015 11:27 AM

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It won't let me go back into my computer it says missing boot manager

‎09-12-2015 11:50 AM

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Bootmgr is missing can you please help ASAP
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