Can I use the HP Recovery partition after formatting and partitioning the rest of the hard drive?
I recently had my HP Pavilion dv4 2145dx laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) go kerput. The Geek Squad said that the motherboard is dead. I bought a laptop and I use this one for now, and I use the former dv4 as external hard drive.
I intend to continue to use the hard drive from the old dv4 as an external unresolved for now, but I wish we could fix the dv4 at some point in the future. Here's the problem: to get the most out of the former dv4 as external drive, I want to repartition it so that there is an NTFS partition and one HFS partition +. This way I could easily use it with my Mac and Windows machines.
But if I do that, I'm not sure if the image of HP recovery would continue to operate. If it does not, then if/when I get the old dv4 a new motherboard, I couldn't restore the operating system from the recovery partition. It is a problem, because I have not create recovery disks (stupid, I know - I'm definitely making them for the new machine).
So, I want to do these two things:
(1) create my dv4 recovery disks. Can I do this if the dv4 drive is mounted in an external enclosure?
(2) format and partition the drive dv4 (the leaving intact recovery partition) and later to recover the system from the recovery partition. The recovery partition would continue to operate in these conditions?
Thanks for any help that anyone is obtained.
Hello:
What you do to the C:\drive will make the ineffective recovery partition.
You will not be able to create a set of recovery discs unless the drive is usable in Notepad.
Can you still read all 25 characters of your product key of W7 on the bottom of your laptop broken?
If so, you can do this...
If you can read the Microsoft windows 7 25-character product key, you can download simple Windows 7 ISO files to burn on a DVD for the version of windows that is installed on your PC, and which is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC case.
Burn the ISO with the option to burn the ISO on your DVD burning program and burn it at the slowest possible speed that will allow your program. This will create a bootable DVD.
Or use the installation of Windows 7 USB/DVD tool to compile the ISO file that you download from Digital River. Link and instructions below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB compilation method.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
Use 25 characters on the PC product key to activate the installation.
The key will activate a 32 or 64 bit installation.
Then go to the support of the PC and driver page to install the drivers you need.
Link to downloads ISO of W7 is below.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-Windows-7-SP1-ISO-from-Digital-River/
Or, you can probably still order a set of recovery disc for your HP laptop.
http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/bph07143
Paul
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