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• Used the recovery partition to get rid of a virus. Can I upgrade to windows 10 now or do I have to install all the updates first?

  Used the recovery partition (windows 7) to get rid of a virus. Can I update immediately for windows 10 or do I install all the updates of Windows 7 first of all?

  You can update immediately:

  • How to download official Windows 10 ISO files
  • How to: upgrade previous versions of Windows using the file ISO for Windows 10

  Check that Windows 7 is active.

• Need instructions on how to use the recovery Partition to restore my OS to its original state.

  I need to use the recovery partition to restore my OS to its original state.  I'm getting crashes (invaded by "dumprep.exe" CPU cycles) and an occasional BSOD.

  What brand is your computer?  Some computer manufacturers, including Dell and HP, have a recovery partition on the hard drive of the new computers.  By pressing a special key combination when the computer starts, you can use the recovery partition to restore the computer to the way it was when it was new.  Looking for a message about the recovery options on the first screen that appears.

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• How to use the recovery partition recovery files in computer hp laptop dv6 in windows 7

  I'm trying to find my laptop to factory settings without using recovery disks in windows 7.
  but using whenever I try to recver in file recovery system in Control Panel, when the computer restarts it says that there is no bootable media or recovery disk.
  When you use the Recovery Manager, it says the system recovery is disabled try to use recovery media creation but the creation of recovery media said that the recovery media has already been created once and it can not be recreated.
  whenever I open the recovery file on the hard drive of the score, he said, this partition is for recovery donot change or remove this partition. He covered about 10 GB of space but whenver that I open it, the file is empty and hp logo appears with instructions that his is set for partition donot change it.
  can someone tell what to do?

  Have the hard drive in the dynamic State breaks the recovery feature. Conversion of back to basics should not delete your data, unless the data is on the extra partition, you have to remove to get the disk hard back to base.

• Pavilion X 2: Using the recovery partition

  Windows 10 upgrade removes the information out of the recovery partition and let the 5.9 GB of unusable 32 GB player, how can I make use of this space.

  Assuming that you no longer want to keep this partition, my suggestions is to download and install the tool Minitool Partition Wizard and use it to remove the recovery partition and add that the space that is not allocated to an existing partition.

  You can do the same thing with MS disk management, but Minitool is much more powerful and flexible.

  Good luck

• Means of hard drive failure cannot use the recovery partition. Alas! recovery discs will not read!

  Hard drive decided to throw a wobbly and abandon me. I can't access the drive at all so decided to but a new and use the recovery at least discs bring the machine to its status as an out-of-box.

  That's the problem... It will not read the recovery disc. I know there is some stuff about it because I read in another machine. Until you tell me to change the DVD hardware... it reads very well all the other disks. I loaded Arcronis, as well as other system repair stuff, using the DVD Player/Recorder.

  I have a pukka Product Code for the software, Vista Home Basic. Can I get a Vista Home Basic disc and then use my key to sting?  I'm happy to pay a price, but do not want to buy at the price high. After all, I already paid for it once!

  Any help/suggestions will be much appreciated.

  Mr. Blue Screen.

  Hello

  Some manufacturers have more available Vista recovery disks.

  If this happens, you may need to try this instead:

  You can also borrow and use a Microsoft Vista DVD, which contains the files for the different editions of Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate) must be installed. The product key on your computer / Laptop box determines what Edition is installed.

  Other manufacturers recovery DVDs are should not be used for this purpose.

  And you need to know the version of 'bit' for Vista, as 32-bit and 64-bit editions come on different DVDs

  Here's how to do a clean install of Vista using a DVD of Vista from Microsoft:

  "How to do a clean install and configure with a full Version of Vista '

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/117366-clean-install-full-version-Vista.html

  And once the operating system is installed, go to your computer manufacturer's website and get the latest drivers for your particular model or laptop computer.

  And phone Activation may be necessary when you use the above installation method.

  "How to activate Vista normally and by Activation of the phone '

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/84488-activate-Vista-phone.html

  See you soon.

• Have an Acer which need a reinstall, but I don't want to use the recovery partition.

  Basically, Acer for a reason any installed this copy of windows with a buttload of bloatware, used FAT32 instead of NTFS, and added a recovery partition which literally takes half of the hard drive. No physical reinstall disk, of course.

  What I am wanting to do is to install a new copy of the same version of Windows from a vanilla install disc, but I did not posses disc. My questions are:

  1 - ordinary copy, non - OEM activate again using the old product key?

  2. is it legal to download an .iso of the Setup from somewhere disk to install it? (If not, I might be able to locate a friend with a copy...?)

  Anti-malware programs are a good tool to use, but they are not 100%.

  About file system conversion, see these two pages:

  http://www.NTFS.com/quest3.htm

  http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

  Since you already have a safe way to reinstall XP, I just do it. No need to download the .iso that could end does not properly.

• Thought of reloading Vista on my computer. Appropriate measures to use the recovery partition?

  Hi, I have:

  Laptop HP Pavilion DV9700 Entertainment

  Windows Vista 32 SP1

  --------------------------

  I think about reloading Vista from scratch and want to ensure adequate to use to process the embedded Recovery partition that HP put here for me.

  It's called: HP_RECOVERY (E total size: 12G 1.97 G free space)

  Any advice.

  I can do this, but if I can't solve my problems, I'll have to do this and want to know how.

  I did as you all suggest.  Considoring my other problems with obsolete soft pkgs (office, etc.), I'll just be upgraded.

  Since yesterday, I clean installed Windows 8.1 on this machine and formatted the OS (C drive.)

  Install has no start-up problems, sound problems, yet remarkable stability problems.

  I also have intalled office 365 and you can use all of these great products.

  No more problems with my Vista corruption.

  BTW, I like the way you use the 8.1 environment.

  The only thing would be better to have a touchscreen.

  In any case, thanks for the input.

• Retrieved using the recovery partition, and now there is no recovery partition

  I restored it at the factory and now there is no recovery partition.

  How do I get that back?

  Thank you

  May I ask how you got the laptop to factory settings?
  Have you used the Toshiba Recovery disk or the HARD drive recovery process?

• Satellite L40 - 18Y: corrupt system files - how to use the recovery partition

  Greetings,

  One of my friends bought the Bulgarian electronic Toshiba Satellite L40 - 18Y (PSL48E) from a major retailer and insists on the fact that it came without any CD, but the first time he installed Vista.

  After that some of his other friends have uninstalled Vista and XP for unknown reasons (he says that some drivers and patches were necessary to make XP work properly, I think he might have something on LBA48 and SP1).

  In any case, installing XP died, and the disk share is the file system is damaged.
  After I removed it with gparted I have two disk actions now.
  1st row in the table to partition: ntfs share labeled WinRE (no hidden bootable)
  (He has a stash of file RavMon.exe and autorun.inf which implies that damage to the installation of XP are perhaps caused by a virus)
  Second row in the partition table: empty (installation of XP was)

  Third row in the table to partition: ntfs share with data

  The problem is that the first partition unbootable and act like partition recovery, even when I toggle the boot flag.

  It is all recovery partition and how I should go?
  I read in some messages if you press '0' when the computer starts the Bios it will start automatically, but it did not work.

  A manual which was available for download for this model on Toshiba Support site the key has been specified as F12. It didn't work either.

  I'll be very grateful for directions, solutions or ideas.

  Hello

  There is perhaps a little change to reinstall Vista with the HDD recovery procedure.
  Please check if it would work.
  -Turn on the laptop and press F8
  -Check if there is an option called fix my computer
  -If so, select it, and then choose the last option called Toshiba recovery.

  But to be honest I don t see the chances it would work because you have already removed the Vista from the HARD drive.

  You must have read the user manual before deleting the Vista.
  The manual (Chapter 3), said that if the recovery DVDs has not been handed over with Notepad then you create the DVD using the Toshiba Recovery Disk Creator (is was also preinstalled). The user manual also describes the above HARD drive recovery procedure.

  However, the recovery DVDs can also be ordered here:
  https://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

  Welcome them

• Help... How to use the recovery on Pavilion g4 2014tx partition

  Hi all... Would like to ask how to use the recovery partition and what is the effect if I used it... ?

  Thank you...

  Hello:

  You normally start the PC, and at the beginning of the HP welcome screen, you press the F11 key to start the Recovery Manager program.

  Then follow the instructions to restore your PC to its state of software "out of the box.

  In so doing you re-partition and reformat the hard drive.

  All THE data you have on the PC will be lost.

  So make sure that you copy the files that you want to keep on a portable hard drive before proceeding.

  It is also for if you have created a storage partition. You must copy all the files from that too.

  All partitions are erased and redone.

• Equium won't start - how to access the recovery partition?

  Hi, my sister has a 2008 Equium A200-1V0 with Vista 32-bit, that no longer starts (probably due to damage of rootkit virus). It loads the BIOS but then goes to black screen with blinking cursor.

  F8 does not work.
  F2 goes to Phoenix TrustedCore Setup utility. The Toshiba hard drive and a CD-ROM drive are listed in hand and start in the right order.

  Using F12 I can get it to boot from a Win7 64 bit repair disc that I burned using my laptop.

  However, it does not recognize the operating system or any image or restore points (because it is 64-bit) but he will be responsible for command prompt.

  To * guest *, I can launch Notepad and when I click on file / open and double click on computer it shows 4 Hard drives as follows:
  Local disc (c :))
  Data (d :)) 42 GB free of 54.5 GB
  WinRE (e :)) 1.11 GB free of 1.46 GB)
  Boot (x :)) 29.0 MB of free space of 31.5 MB (which is used by the repair disk)

  So the C: drive is listed, but without ability.

  * CHKDSK *.
  CHKDSK c: /r and press return

  «The type of the file system is NTFS.»
  Unable to determine the status and version of the volume. CHKDSK is abandoned.
  Cannot transfer messages saved in the journal of the events with the 50 State.

  * Run TESTDISK *.

  Analysis:
  Size of the partition start end in sectors
  1 P Windows RE (store) 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
  2 * HPFS - NTFS 191 89 27 7477 118 1 117051392
  3 P HPFS - NTFS 7477 118 2 14592 190 62 114307072 (data)

  * = Primary bootable
  When you perform a quick search, then P - list of files, the second partition it reports:
  "Cannot open the file system. Filesystem seems damaged. »

  So what I want to do is boot to Windows restore to drive E.

  My question is for Toshiba experts: If F8 does not work how to use the recovery partition?

  Laptop is:
  Part number: PSAF5E-002005KS
  Main features
  -Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T2310
  -Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
  -Drive DVD Super Multi (Double Layer)
  -2 048 (1 024 + 1 024) MB of RAM (667 MHz)
  -15.4 "WXGA TFT display 1 280 x 800

  > THIS ISN'T MICROSOFT, TOSHIBA, AND GOOD PRODUCT DESIGN.
  I really put t know that should do better than to place the Microsoft sticker at the bottom.
  This product key and sticker on it's just proof that you purchased the machine with an operating system preinstalled and legal active OS version. This key belongs to original OS (recovery image) that you got with your laptop and it is not a kind of universal key that you can use for the activation of the operating system if you have made the decision to install the clean version of the OS.

  In General, this key is totally useless. While your computer you've got legal copy and this version, that you can install so often desired. It must not be enabled.
  > So my question still remains: can I recover my Toshiba laptop using this restore partition?
  If you want to recover using the Toshiba recovery image response is not. Cannot start HARD drive recovery facility.
  > Even with a dvd of Windows Vista is genuine, I can't reload the OS
  In my opinion you need make the clean OS installation using the clean installation or order original Toshiba Recovery disk on https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx disc and install original (already active) recovery image.

• HP probook 440 G1 query on the recovery partition

  I not create recovery DVDs when I received my laptop then I upgraded to windows 8.1. I want to downgrade to 8 but when I perform a system recovery it says: no image found. I am aware that I need the recovery DVD to perform the recovery.
  
  My questions are:
  
  1: if I use a 8 CD to format my windows partition win then I will be able to use the recovery partition in my HARD drive and perform a restore to the factory settings so recover windows 8
  
  2: if I create recovery DVD now with victory 8.1 installed recovery DVDs contain wins 8? I want to say can I perform recovery with these DVD's going to work?
  
  Any knowledgeable person here please help me...

  If your HP ProBook 440 G1 comes with Windows 8 and you upgraded to Windows 8.1, you can try a Windows of "cool". This should return Windows 8, as it did when I refreshed my Split HP 13 x 2 which has been upgraded to Windows 8. 1

  If this does not work, try to set the "HP Recovery" partition as "Active" in the Windows Disk Management Console and restart the computer. If everything is working correctly, your computer must begin the process of HP recovery and restore your computer to a factory State.

  (1) you can set the "HP Recovery" as "Active" partition using a Windows installation disc and choosing repair options.

  (2) If you try to create your discs of HP recovery at this moment and the system allows you, the created disks will be the original image of Windows 8, which has been installed on your computer.

  If none of the works above, you will need to contact HP to order a set of disks.

  If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

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• recover from the recovery partition

  I found several entries by searching in the forum, but nobody seems to be similar to my problem:

  I want to recover my windows vista system partition using the partition recovery on my T61p.

  It worked very well for me last time. But in the meantime I installed Ubuntu which was installing the grub loader, I think that what causes the problem all to rewrite the mbr.

  By pressing the Thinvantage key while booting does not show me the usable entries. If I boot from the Thinkpad - Recovery Boot disk iexpect only after pressing 'next' linux partitions and data will be deleted also.

  But especially as I could finally recovery... "Select the partition you want to use as the system partition" or another message like this.

  I remember, I was delighted when I saw this message. Because at the time, I was doing this I was expecting something like that. But today, that would be great, I don't have to reinstall Linux.

  Can you please tell me how I'm going to continue?

  Thank you

  For 3 or 4 days I'm looking a solution for my problem.

  I tried many things and spent a lot of time reading about similar issues.

  Windows Vista Ultimate on my T61p is not able to upgrade to SP1. I did it via ThinkVantage System Update, Windows Update function function and I downloaded the SP1 of Microsoft.com.

  Meanwhile my games installed do not work, I reinstalled them and then got an error message like: ereg.exe does not work.

  Installation completed then and I got the same error as before, at the start of the game.

  I had a serious accident before 4 months and I spent all the time in hospitals. My only satisfaction now is my new T61p and I don't get to work.

  PROBLEM:

  Maybe I did something wrong before update so I tried to use the recovery feature to set windows to the same status as when I got the laptop.

  I tried using the CD Boot Vista added, disk 1-c and the last c. I also tried using the recovery partition which I did not have to work when I started this thread.

  During this time I installed the rescue and recovery 4.2 and now he got the correct menu entry. When I select this function (F11) starting the computer was 'normal' and I had the selection of GRUB menu...

  I also found a scandiskpatch.exe which should correct some problems of RnR using Vista and 4.2 RnR. But when I doubleclick on it, I get a message that my computer do not have good condition for the correction of program (or something else, I use the German language pack.

  I want to restore my computer, and then try to update and if this doesn't work I still will have to find a solution for this.

  Please help me with this very annoying problem.

• Protection of the system for the recovery Partition...

  System protection is turned on for the C: partition that is NTFS.

  I note that the Protection system is OFF for recovery D:

  partition.  What is the State recommended for both?

  The recovery partition didn't need a letter drive, because nothing in Windows use it.  You use the recovery partition by pressing a special key combination when the computer starts.  For more details, refer to the User Guide for your computer. Boulder computer Maven
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