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03-12-2011
12:08 PM
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03-12-2011
12:17 PM
by
SedonaF
I purchased a HP Pavilion dv6 notebook having Win 7 home premium installed. It had 3 system partions and and a C:\ drive. I made another partion and changed the drive letters of existing partions. After using this system for few months there are some issues with it and I want to go back to factory settings. I tried but could not recover my system. I dont have recovery disks for my system. Kindly guide me how can recover my system to preconfigured state. From where I can download recovery disks for my laptop?
Thanks,
Muhammad {Personal Information Removed}
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07-19-2014 12:40 AM - edited 07-19-2014 12:42 AM
I am not sure which model you were told there are unavailable for, but HP still stocks Recovery Discs for many (not all) Vista machines, most Windows 7 & of course Windows 8 machines.
I assume you have an XP or early Vista model? In that scenario you should be able to get the here:
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03-12-2011 01:21 PM
You can't download Recovery Disks, you have to order them from HP.
Or, you can try this>>
1.Right-click on "Computer" icon and select manage.
2.This will launch the Microsoft Management Console.
3.On the left side of the MMC, click on "Disk Management" and it will show you all of the partitions.
4.Right-click on the "HP Recovery" partition and select "Mark as Active Partition."
5.When the warning prompt appears, select "Yes" - Reboot and it will automatically boot into the Recovery Manager (without pressing F11).
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11-24-2011 12:41 AM - edited 11-24-2011 12:43 AM
I met the same problem with my Pavilion dv6, I can't run recovery by pressing F11
I did everything as you wrote but I can't see "Mark as Active Partition"
Could you please give me some more information?
Or please tell me how to order Recovery Dics from HP
Thank you very much.
Nguyen Kim Son
04-16-2012 08:06 PM
You can order Recovery Media for around $20>> Contact HP
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09-05-2012 08:51 PM
@tbrown89
You can order Recovery Media for less than $20 usually. Choose your country, then look for Call HP option to find the page with info>> Contact HP
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09-13-2012 01:43 PM
Hey,
Since HP wants to nickel and dime people for these disks, can someone send them to me, or let me know if they can be downloaded from anywhere??? And, I say nickel and dime because these should have been included with the laptop or if the recovery partition is corrupt, they should be offered for free since we went and bought the product, the least they can do is support it. The computer is a year old, and they can't service it or provide any thing other than purchasing the disks. Which I think is BS, but that's my humble opinion.
Please let me know if that is possible, thank you.
09-16-2012
05:45 PM
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09-16-2012
08:32 PM
by
MrMatthew
Hello please any1 with the dv6 recovery disck can email me where to download free ...because the laptop is really given me problem ... [Personal Information Removed]
