How use the D: Recovery?

[zpxykm]

    My new HP laptop has a partition of 😧 Reovery. How to use it?

[zpxykm]

     Hello all:

     My last post means:  I just bought the laptop and it has a partition "D: Recovery" originally。

     Maybe it is for recovering original system from the factory. Anyway, could you tell me the usefulness

and method.

[DavidSMP]

Hi @zpxykm,

Thanks for visiting the HP community.  A good day to you. I came across your post where you require assistance regarding information on what the recovery D:\ partition does and its usefulness. I will be delighted to assist you here.

Splendid description of the issue. Kudos to you on that score.

• The “D” partition is the system recovery partition that can assist you to restore the computer to factory settings by performing a complete system recovery or a complete reinstallation of the Windows operating system along with all the drivers and software apps that came preinstalled on the computer when you first got it out of the box.

• It is the lifeline of the computer. Please do not store or save anything on the recovery D Drive.
• It is not infected by any virus also. It is protected.
• To perform a system recovery please check this document. It has different options on how to perform a system recovery based on the situation that you might face at that time.
   
• Here are the different options in the document.
• Issue with HP Recovery Manager
• Getting started
• Types of system recovery
• Recovery using HP Recovery Manager
• System recovery using HP supplied recovery media
• Creating recovery media
• Factory reset using media you created
• System recovery using media you created
• Disabling secure boot on a notebook computer (Windows 10)
• Recovery when Windows 10 does not start correctly

Hope this helps.  Let me know how this goes. I genuinely hope the issue gets resolved without hassles and the unit works great.    Please reach out for any issues and I'll be there to assist you. 

To simply say thanks, please click the "Thumbs Up" button to give me a Kudos to appreciate my efforts to help.

 If this helps, please mark this as “Accepted Solution” as it will help several others with the same issue to get it resolved without hassles. 

Take care now and have a splendid week ahead. 

[zpxykm]

     Hello DavidSMP: 

   Your reply is so good that makes me understand the usefulness of "D: Recovery" partition.

   Could you also please briefly tell me how to use it wnenever necessary?

[Chimney_83]

Hi @zpxykm, I am the @Chimney_83. It looks like you were interacting with @DavidSMP, but he is out of the office today so I'll take over from here.

Thanks for the reply, you would not need to use the drive manually. The features of the drive can be accessed using HP Recovery manager application available on your computer. Click here. 

Note: Please do not run a recovery on your computer unless you are facing any issues, as it would reimage your computer to the Factoroy condition. 

Hope this helped. 

[CherylG]

The files in Recovery are also used to make backup Recovery Media. Having Recovery Media can be important -in the event the hard drive fails and has to be replaced it can be used to install Windows and all of the original software/drivers.

Creating Recovery Media>>Windows 10

[zpxykm]

      Hello  DavidSMP:

    Now my main question is how to use D Recovery partition to recover system and others.

    I follow the article you gave me, the 2nd question of the article is: getting started

    It says:  using the Windows 10 search box to search for HP Recovery Manager. .............................

   Where is the Windows 10 search box?????????????     Please tell me!!!!!!!!!!!

   Thank you.