Dell :: Deleting Recovery Partiton On Precision
Oct 6, 2008
What would i actually lose by deleting the recovery partition?
What i would like to do is reformat the HDD, make 2 (or 3) partitions and install both XP an Vista Ultimate 64.
I already have an XP disc with valid license but for Vista i only have the recovery discs supplied by Dell.
Does deleting the recovery partition make the discs useless? Or can i just reinstall Vista with these. Alternatively i could use normal Vista discs and use the key from the laptop (tried this with upgrading to 64bit on an Acer and it worked fine, key was found automatically)
I did find some guides to do all this on Dell xps and such and all the issues with the MD buttons. I don't think i have these so are there any issues i should be aware of?
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Jun 25, 2009
i had got a hdx 16 with home premium 64bit...due to sme reasons my OS got corrupted b4 i could take my recovery disks....so now i hav installed windows vista that i had bought for my desktop on my hdx 16.but the recovery partition is as it is.is there any way by which i can take my recovery disks from that partition..
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Jul 18, 2009
I have recently purchased a Sony Vaio TT11M/N and am looking to delete the recovery partition as i have created the recovery discs.
The only problem is i cannot find the partition. I was under the impression that the partition would be under a separate drive like d:, but there is only one drive the c:. How do i delete the recovery partition and where is it?
The HD size is 120GB and it shows at 104GB. But the available amount is just over 80GB.
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Oct 2, 2014
First I already created the factory default backup for recovery on USB drives (did 2 of them), but before I want to delete the recovery parittion, I would like to test first the recovery I created on the USB drives.
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Here is my dillema:I can get to the bios and have already setup the boot sequence to make the primary boot device my USB flash drive. Â It seems not to get there.
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I tried the other option the D2D, wherein I hit the volume up button and the windows button onscreen and I got to D2D. Â I get to the menu wherein I am trying to recover from an image and have inserted the USB drive. Â That is where it all stops. Â It cannnot find the recovery image even though I have already inserted the USB flash drive even before boot up. Â I did this with both the USB flash drives I made.
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I am pretty sure that the USB flash drives contains recovery file, since the USB flash drives titled "recovery" and it contains folders such as "boot" and it has files. Â I tried both USB ports (micro - using the OTG cable, and the actual USB port on the keyboard)
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Nov 17, 2008
I currently installed Ubuntu and it was good but It drained my battery so I decided to take it off. After that my computer started to act weird. The Media Direct partition appeared in next to my OS and Recovery partitions. When i would press the MD button, I would get a blue screen and eventually every time I press the button It just turns on my computer. When I try to turn it back on after putting it on hibernate, it states that windows did not turn off right and it restarts windows. I have decided to a clean reinstall of Vista and MD but I have a few questions. I found this tutorial on how to do it on the internet but i found that i have to completely delete all the partitions including the recovery partition. I was wondering if there is a way to do this without having to delete that partition?
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Jul 21, 2014
I have hp Pavilion g6 1200tx. On Windows 7... How to format only c drive without deleting any othere drives and data, i was partition drives by shrink option...
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Apr 1, 2013
I am selling my (almost) new Dell XPS L502x laptop. How do I delete all my personal information while leaving Windows 7 etc intact?
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Jan 4, 2009
how to remove this piece of crap from my MBP. how to do it?
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Apr 1, 2014
I have an HP Pavillion HPE h8z. When I received it a free Internet Download Manager was installed. There was a 30 day free trial period. Some time after the free trial period expired I deleted the program. The program is no longer listed in the programs on the computer. My problem is that a message started to appear on screen stating that the free period was over and to either purchase or delete the program. Anytime I attempt to download a PDF file the message reappears and will not allow me to continue with the download. I have tied everything that I know to do to eliminate this "bug" with no luck.
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Jul 26, 2012
I have my password for a web site coming on when I go to the site and I don't want this to happen but cannot find how to  eliminate it.
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Feb 16, 2015
When I empty my hard drive or delete apps or files I have less room on my hard drive. I have an Aspire V3-9809.
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Mar 11, 2009
I am trying to find out who the ODM ( original design manufacturer) is for these precision models, dell no longer sells them, perhaps there is another channel for buying one besides Dell???
If anyone has any information please let me know and also what model not just the ODM's name.
For example ALienware laptops are made by the ODM Clevo which also sells the same Chassis without the alienware bling and price under the name of Sager, Averatec also as I recall ....
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Aug 24, 2014
I have just installed the HP 4635 printer to my network. All devices were printing yesterday wirelessly. Today the laptop device has a print job that I have requested to delete. It has said "deleting" for two days and I can not get it "unstuck". each time I send a new print job to the que it goes in line "behind" the print job that is stuck in "deleting" mode. I have tried re-starting. re-booting, ctrl, alt, delete. nothing seeings to get this print job "unstuck" and deleted.Â
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Nov 10, 2008
i want to uninstall everything that is i want to ununistall the OS VISTA thus replacing it with WINDOWS XP.
But unfornately i have failed to install OS (XP) on my laptop which came with pre-installed Windows Vista. I not been able , but when i boot my lapto using Windows XP CD it copies the required files but when i press ENTER to install Windows XP the message appears that " Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacture supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press F3." Please note I have C: drive installed windows vista on it, i have drive D: files are available for recovery disk pre-installed by the windows vista or manufacturer. My lapto is ACER MODEL 4320. Please advise how to install how to install the operating system on this computer.
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Mar 16, 2011
I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 15 that came with the partitioned data recovery feature. I immediately created 2 recovery disks. Yesterday, I sectioned my active hard drive so that I could have, in effect, 2 hard drives. The newly partitionedsection of the hard drive is naturally blank and I would like to install my data recovery or disk recovery information on it.
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Aug 30, 2009
I’ve just done a clean install of my Dell Vostro -- reinstalling vista and removing the recovery partition in the process. Outcome = a ‘cleaner’ machine with none of the preinstalled bloatware/c**p from Dell. (first time I’ve done anything like this, but followed a brill guide in the Dell section of this forum ).
I’m about to tackle my Mums Compaq Presario C310EA. The aim is to remove all the rubbish she has accumulated over the years, incl any spyware/ adware she may have, and generally have a bit of a clean sweep…. hopefully resulting in a faster laptop. I’m backing up her data, and moving some of my Dad’s stuff somewhere else.
Basically I want to clean up as much as poss, but unfortunately she has no xp disk, just the recovery disks (cds) she burned when she first got the laptop.
As she has no xp disk I guess the best I can hope for is to reset the laptop to the factory settings (?) .. not ideal, but I don’t think the (factory set) bloatware is too much of an issue for her – she’s not a heavy user.
Should I use the recovery partition for this, or do I need to use the cds she burned? .
I’d like to know the best approach – and can’t seem to find a set of instructions to follow.
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Dec 7, 2014
Recovery software disapeared from drive d in windows 7 on presario cq62 209wm. How do I restore the program?
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Sep 1, 2014
I have an HP Pavillion model 17-e019dx running Windows 8. Every time I turn it on, it stops at a blue screen that says
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Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
 A required device isn't connected or cannot be accessed
 Error code 0xc000000f
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When I press enter to "Try again" it come back with:
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File:WindowsSystem32winload.efi above the error code listed above.
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I have tried the Recovery and after MUCH time waiting, it still comes back to the above mentioned screen. I have also run all the diagnostics that are available on the laptop and everything come back normal. I don't have the original discs or documentation as I "received this laptop as a "gift/curse" . It is, however, registered to me.
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Nov 6, 2014
I am working on an Envy Pro 4-b000.  The hard drive has failed.  I have a replacement drive on the way, but I did not create a  recovery disk when the laptop was purchased.  It had windows 7 - 64 bit on it previously.  What are my options to getting recovery media for this laptop?
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Dec 15, 2014
Equipment:Â HP Notebook g7
Operating system:Â Windows 8Â
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I purchased a Pavilion g7 laptop in December 2012. The 1TB HDD that came with the laptop started to go bad on me. After several attempts to 'system self-repair' (which failed) I purchased a replacement Seagate SSHD 1TB HD. Since I did not have any Windows 8 recovery discs I contacted HP, paid for and had them sent to me.
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So now I have a new SSHD, new W8 recovery discs and my laptop. I replaced the HD and started the recovery process per the paper instructions that came with the discs.
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At 4% (in the 'Copying files required to restore the hard drive phase') I get an error message:
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                   Reducer (Title of the error message)
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                   Copy File Fails
                   From: D:/PRELOAD/BASE14.SWM
                   To: C:/RM/Image/BASE14.SWM
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                    Press OK to retry.Â
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Obviously since I'm posting about this simply pressing 'OK to retry' did not work. I powered the laptop down and restarted the recovery process. I got the same error message at the same point described above.
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Mar 2, 2013
I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 and run Windows Visa Home Edition.I wanted to restore my laptop to its factory settings but the Recovery Manager wouldn't work. When I clicked on it it would just restart the computer without anything else happening. I then right clicked on the computer >manage> disk manager and made the recovery partition active. When I rebooted the computer it began showing:Bootmgr is missingPress Ctrl+Alt+DeleteWhich of course leads back to the same message after te computer reboots. I can't access F8 key. Only F10 (Bios) works. I don't have a recovery or installation CD as it didn't come with the laptop when I purchased it.Is there anyway I can change the active partition back to the C drive, this disabling the recovery partition? I read that it was possible to access disk manager from cmd prompt window, but I don't know how to access it since the F8 key won't work (makes just a bipping noise when pressed)?I am also out of the country so can't mail my laptop to HP to have it fixed.
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Oct 31, 2014
thru HP tech support tried to recover my notebook with no success. instructed to purchase recovery dvd's (they don't offer a usb flash option and I have no internal dvd). they told me to find an external drive so I purchased an HP. they told me to:
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- restart my machine with dvd#1 in place and tap F9 to get to boot device order to USB CD/DVD ROM drive
- windows starts loading files
- I can hear the writer spinning up
- recieve an error "boot disc cannot be found", press any key to continue
- windows starts loading files and atempts to start
- restoration incomplete, hit retry
- cycle repeats
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HP support said to tap any key as window tries to load - no luck
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When I get to the HP Recovery Manager - I've tried System Recovery and Minimized Image recovery - same results
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My question is - can my system load from the external DVD drive if it was never activated (ie drivers) thru windows? Can it be done outside of windows? Seems like it can't read from the disc
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Can my recovery discs be copied/transferred to a USB flash drive to avoid the external drive completely?
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Sep 10, 2012
I just accepted the delivery of my 5 brand new notebooks for my company's new workers.
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3 of those notebooks are HP Probook 450 G2's (PN: J4R69EA)
(These are the models with the 128GB SSD drives)
The other two are Lenovo E540’s with similar specs.
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So first things first, create recovery media. So that is done before I hand them to the end users in question. While trying to create the windows disc, the "HP Recovery Disc Creator" program demands Dual layer DVD's: "Please insert a Dual-Layer DVD to proceed" The DVD's in question I’m using are "Sony DVD+R 120min/4.7GB" discs that in the past have always worked. (and at this moment are working for the Lenovo portables)
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[URL] Unfortunately this is not the same interface I have. I can only choose a drive to create a backup to
(in this case it is Drive F: for internal drive) I also tried an external DVD writer with the same results.
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I have not tried a USB stick, but this is not what I want and since you can only create one set of backups…
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Link to a screenshot: (you need to copy paste it into your browser apparently)
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This would not be that big of a problem if there was an actual windows 7 key printed on the portable. If I had a key, I would just reinstall the machine straight away with a clean windows 7 image so I dont have to clean out all the HP software. but unfortunatly this is not the case. so i need a Windows 7 Recovery disc to be created.
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Feb 18, 2015
ive just finished setting up my new acer ES1-512, And was about to make my recovery media through the acer console in windows 8.1, and the program will not open ? i get to the part where it wants me to allow the program to make changes, but then nothing happens ? i have tried going to the file location its self to to start the program but this makes no difference, ive looked all over acers site to see if i can re-download the console but have found nothing?
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Oct 12, 2014
i have pavillion DM4-3002TX Beat Edition.
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I just download and install the norton partition magic 8.0 demo from website... and suddently or accidentally my recovery partition been deleted. So I can't recovering my system anymore or disabled.
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so how can i get the recovery partition back to my notebook??
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Jul 8, 2013
I have a pavilion dv7-6b50ei notebook pc bought 2012. It always gives a command prompt pop up which doesn't stay long enough to read. I also felt there's a virus on it which my anti-virus couldn't solve so I tried factory resetting but when I restart and press F11 it gives an error(something like a boot.. is missing). so I tried my recovery discs. Disc 1 of 4 ran fine but disc 2 keeps stopping with an error.
Now the laptop doesn't load as I think the OS has been formatted during the recovery and don't know what to do. I feel disc 2 is bad too because it also gave an error while trying to copy it to a USB pen drive. I have also tried an external dvd and run the hp test on the hard drive; the hard drive passed the test. If I can get a new set of recovery discs, it would solve my problem.
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Jan 23, 2012
I have HP Pavillion DV6 6115tx laptop and accidently i deleted the Drivers And Applications Source For Recovery Manager from C:.. Now I want to get that source back.
Product HP Pavillion DV6 6115txÂ
OS Windows 7 64Bit
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Feb 21, 2010
Will I be able to recover later with just the discs and a completely clean HDD
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Oct 3, 2014
reset BIOS admin password on my HP Pavilion tx2500 - I didn't use it for more than one year so the password is obviously forgotten. After 3 invalid attempts it displays "System disable Key: 72015992".
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Aug 21, 2014
The uefi bios recovery does not work on my computer nether has the .exe files that are bios... I would like to try flashing the BIOS but don't know where to go...
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