Failed recovery partition
I think it is unfair that hp thinks that they should be charging for recovery disks when in fact it was there factory installed partition that has now crapped out leaving me with a useless recovery partition. But because they felt it was in there best interest not to send recovery disks with my laptop I now have a machine I can now use as a paperweight, when if they had just sent recovery disks I could be designing websites instead of writing this ridicules letter...
On HP machines you have 2 options-burn your Recovery DVD set using the software on the machine (before the hdd craps out) or order them from HP.Usually less than $20, not bad to salvage a paperweight.
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Unable to access data/storage space of failed primary partition after internet recovery
Hello,
So just a bit of quick background info to the issue: I experienced my first major failure with my iMac a few weeks ago (early Feb) where the main partition on my 3TB Fusion drive developed a corruption of some sort. I went through all the disk verification/repair procedures I could find, however nothing worked and I ended up with a grey screen on bootup that had a round logo with a slash through it. I tried a reinstall of OS X Yosemite from the recovery partition, however this failed part-way through, and I was forced to perform an internet recovery instead.
This worked, and I now have my iMAC stable again, however the recovery process created a new primary partition in addition to the old primary partition. This wasn't a major issue for me as I planned to recover some files from the failed partition that my backups had missed. Unfortunately since then, that old partition has disappeared and I can't get it back. I figure I have lost those files, but what is really annoying is the space that old partition took up has not freed up. My 3TB fusion drive is only letting me use 120GB of the space (the size of the new primary partition).
So I guess I have two questions:
1 - Is there a way to find and get the old partition back mounting again? The drives that list with a 'diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list' command are attached, but do not appear to contain the old partition that I am after (I've tried manually mounting them via the terminal to check).
2 - If recovering that old partition is not possible, how do I go about freeing up the space it occupied?
System details:
OS X Yosemite v10.10.2
Mac (27-inch, Late 2012)
Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Any assistance on this one would be greatly appreciated - I can't restore all my files from backups as I am running low on HDD space.
Cheers,
Nick
diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Promise RAID 3.0 TB disk1s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 120.5 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 650.0 MB disk2s3
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *120.2 GB disk3
Logical Volume on disk2s2
B1226A78-ED30-4C0E-B398-216050D00D99
Unencrypted
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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+-- Logical Volume Group 776BF278-C2A1-4AE9-A333-54698D103F63
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
Size: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
Free Space: 0 B (0 B)
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+-< Physical Volume 9E51C38B-4FFA-412E-BDD5-3454C7A54658
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk2s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family 6BCF921C-0CAF-4567-88C1-9EF69D4D8D17
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Conversion Status: NoConversion
Conversion Direction: -none-
Has Encrypted Extents: No
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: No
|
+-> Logical Volume B1226A78-ED30-4C0E-B398-216050D00D99
Disk: disk3
Status: Online
Size (Total): 120154292224 B (120.2 GB)
Conversion Progress: -none-
Revertible: No
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFSHi Eric,
See attached screen shot - is that what you are after?
As you can see I don't have access to the rest of the 3TB fusion drive. I'm thinking I may have to do a clean OS install so I have prepared a Yosemite USB install key ready to go.
Unless you guys can suggest something that is.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Nick -
SOLVED: HP Pavilion dv6-1355dx Windows 7 Recovery Partition Failed, Windows Partition Formatted
Hello everyone. I just joined the community, so I apologize in advance if I am in the wrong place or if I do not supply all the needed information about my computer and problem in this first post.
I have an HP Pavilion dv6-1355dx Entertainment Notebook PC, which came with Windows 7 Home Edition, and an HP Recovery Partition. Today, I decided I wanted to start from scratch, as the system was getting pretty slow, and the User folders were becoming very unorganized. So I followed the instructions found at the HP website and used the program HP Recovery Manager. However, after the Recovery Partition formatted the Windows Partition, and had three minutes left to copy the files into the new partition, a message popped up declaring the recovery failed, and the computer had to be rebooted. So now I have a computer with no operating system on it at all, and the Recovery Partition continues to fail. I have used the Recovery Partition before, and this has never happened.
Has anyone encountered or know of a similar issue? Does anyone know a solution? Am I out of luck, or is there someway to ask HP for a copy of the installation media?
Thank you in advance.
EDIT: Never mind. I found a forum post with my answer. Sorry to anyone who spent the time to read this post.how did yiu fix this problem
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I have a hp probook 4510s with widows 7 premium and recently i attempted to restore my computer to factory settings but when i load the boot menu after pushing f11 or f8 it loads files then ask me to chose my country then ask if I'm sure i want to reinstall windows i say yes then it ask if i have a disc i say no then a error message pops up saying
the data is invalid
recovery partition index==boot partition
i have use my recovery partition in the past so I don't know what's wrong. this is how my partitions are set up.
if it helps, before i learn that you can't have no more than 4 primay partitions on windows 7 at the time i didn't know and made a fith one which turn all my partitions into dynamic Partitions but i later delete one and use a software that converts them back to primary with ot affecting the data on it. everything in the partitions are still their as far as i know. please i just want my recovery Partition working again!Your Recovery partition has no drive letter (it should be D), is a Logical drive (should be a Primary) and is part of an Extended partition. If you can use something to correct all of that it may work again.
Phone HP to order Recovery Disks.If you live in US or Canada>>1-800-334-5144
If not,select your country from the link below and call the number for Business PC's/notebooks.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/summary/ww-contact-us.html
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Late in August 2011 I took delivery of a new 27" iMac with Lion preinstalled. I need to run Windows as well. Following Apple's written suggestion, I printed off the then current 12 pages of the document "Bootcamp Installation & Setup Guide" which clearly stated that the hard drive you were going to install on had to have on it, before install, a maximum of one partition. Using finder and disk utility I determined that there was only one partition. Unbeknownst to me, there was (is) an additional hidden (from those two pieces of software) partition on the disk. As of machines delivered new with Lion preinstalled, Apple has begun to include a "recovery partition". In that partition there is a copy of the software necessary to reinstall Lion via a download from the Apple App Store. Not knowing the partition was there, I cranked up "Bootcamp Assistant" which nicely offered to repartition my hard drive creating a "Bootcamp Partition" in addition to the existing. I told it how big to make each and hit the do it button, subsequently destroying my operating system. Oh, it very nicely told me, after the damage was done, how many partitions were REALLY on the disk and that I could not install Bootcamp cause there were too many partitions.
Luckily the the Recovery Partition, which at that point I knew existed, was not harmed and after doing some research on another compter, I used it to once again download Lion from the App Store and reinstall. So, I have recovered but am still stuck with the problem: how do I install Bootcamp in this new environment?First you need to seriously back up your Mac.
A clone is an exact duplicate of your existing Mac HDD. Merely copying and pasting a drive will not make a bootable backup. In case of problems you can boot from an Ext HDD clone and use the utilities to repair, reformat, or clone the Ext HDD back to the internal Mac HDD. While Time machine back ups are easy you can not boot from it. The best thing to have for any kind of problem is a bootable clone backup on an external drive. Some even have two external backup drives in case one fails. There are two good apps for cloning named SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner.
In dealing with the recovery partition a simple approach is to clone the Mac partition to an external disk then re-partition the Mac to a single partition (GUID partition table) . Then clone the external disk clone back to the Mac. You will now have only one Partition and Boot Camp assistant sould not object.
Some have recommended getting rid of the recovery partition while others have advised not to do this. If you have the Lion USB Thumb Drive you do not need a recovery partition so can discard it without concern. There is another way to get rid of the recovery partition if you decide to do it but first be sure to have a backup of your Mac ( I know I sound like a nagging mom but many dead computers have been saved by this simple precaution).
Use Disk Utility.
1) Make the Recovery visible in Disk Utility by using a program like Secrets:http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27025/secrets or MacPilot:http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php (15 day free trial).
2) Highlite the Recovery partition and Control click it and select Mount the partition.
3) With the Recovery partition highlited, erase the partition, you'll get an error message, ignore it.
4) Now highlite the top identity of the hard drive and select the partition tab.
5) Highlite the Recovery partition and press the minus sign.
6) Click and hold on the bottom edge of the partition above and drag it to the bottom, if it doesn't go there automatically, the press apply. -
Problem creating Mtn Lion Recovery partition on external drive.
USB external. Newly erased, three partitions: one 2GB for Recovery HD, other two backups of my old SL machine and new ML machine (Mini). Those work and their respective machines fine. Drive seems OK.
Used Recovery Disk Asst v. 1.0 to create Recovery HD on the small partition while booted into 10.8.2 (the brand new Mini). Factory installed Mtn Lion Recovery HD exists on internal drive and it works— when starting with command-R or command-shift-R, not with Option key. Install of Recovery HD to external seemed to go fine and doing a "diskutil list" in Terminal showed both the internal and external Recovery HD's, properly named as such. However, when restarted with Option down the recovery partition showed up named the same as my internal— at that point "Macintosh HD" but later when I changed the internal's name, reinstalled the Recovery HD, and restarted with Option key the recovery partition now was named the same as new internal drive name. Both times choosing the recovery partition resulted in booting into internal drive.
Was wondering if anyone had a similar problem— and found solution/reason. Apple Tech Support particularly not helpful/knowledgeable on this subject.Hi Baltwo
Really appreciate the help. Many thanks. Finally seems to be working. Not sure exactly what worked but in case you're interested I'll give you a, hopefully, short summary:
Using DU (after copy/paste of the command you wrote above into Terminal) I cloned the working internal drives RDH to the partition for it on the ext. Failed— still seemed to work as almost an alias pointing at the boot volume on the internal.
So, erased the external again; didn't partition, did a reinstall of ML from DU while booted into RDH of internal. Then started from that new ML partition on external and let Setup Asst migrate everything over from the internal to keep Users/Permissions from being a problem.
When that finished I tried to restart w option key. Got a recovery HD that was called exactly that but, again, booted into internal boot drive. Booted into internals RHD just to make sure it was OK and it was.
For whatever reason again restarted w option key. This time I got four choices: the boot volume of internal and external, an ext volume called Recovery HD (the trickster), and another volume called Recovery 10.8.3. Something new— and, as Bill Murray said in Ground Hog Day, "anything new is good." So I tried booting into that new RHD 10.8.3. (Note, I'm still running 10.8.2 on boot volumes.)
And that worked— booted into Recovery HD but no way that I could figure to see for sure that it was the Recovery HD on ext vs. on internal. I think I need to activate the Debug menu on the RHD DU so I can choose the 10.8.3 recovery and see if I have the option of Repairing the disk or it's greyed out. If greyed, then proves I'm booted into it. Might be a more elegant way to see that but it's the one I know. Still, I assume I was in the RHD on the external.
Then made a second partition for the old mac's backup and that initially resulted in the boot volume of the internal backup not be mountable but after a restart or two testing the two RHD's, the mini decided to see all the volumes and things are, for the moment, copacetic.
Hope that wasn't too long and boring. From my experience and reading on the 'net, my general sense is that there are a bunch of variables that all have to be right for this process to work. Probably less is more and just installing ML on a disk by itself will be the most reliable method, if most wasteful of data storage.
Regardless, couldn't have done it without you, baltwo. I don't use this forum enough to know what the etiquette and protocols are but I marked all of your posts as useful, which they were, and, finally, as solving my issue, which they did.
Thanks again -
Equium will not boot - how to access Recovery partition?
Hi, my sister has a 2008 Equium A200-1V0 with Vista 32-bit which will not boot (probably due to virus rootkit damage). It loads the BIOS but then goes straight to black screen with flashing cursor.
F8 does not work.
F2 goes to Phoenix TrustedCore Setup utility. The Toshiba hard drive and CD-ROM drive are listed in Main and Boot in the correct order.
Using F12 I can get it to boot from a Win7 64-bit repair disc I burned using my laptop.
However, this does not recognise the OS nor any image or restore points (because it is 64-bit) but it will load Command Prompt.
In *Command Prompt*, I can start Notepad and when I click File/ Open and double click on Computer it shows 4 Hard drives as follows:
Local Disk (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 free of 31.5 MB (which is used by the Repair disc)
So the C: drive is listed but without capacity.
*CHKDSK*
chkdsk c: /r and press return
"The type of the file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
*Running TESTDISK*
Analysis:
Partition Start End Size 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 doing Quick Search and then P - list files, of the second partition it reports:
"Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
So what I would like to do is boot up from Windows Restore on the E drive.
My question is to any Toshiba experts: When F8 does not work how do I use the recovery partition???
Laptop is:
Part Number : PSAF5E-002005KS
Key Features
- Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2310
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
- DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) drive
- 2,048 (1,024 + 1,024) MB RAM (667 MHz)
- 15.4 " WXGA TFT display 1,280 x 800*UPDATE*:
I have borrowed a genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit dvd and booted up with that.
Clicked on "Repair your Computer"
Then it goes striaght to System recovery Options but no Operating System is shown. Click Next.
Then:
"Choose a Recovery Tool.
Operating system: Unknown on (Unknown) Local Disk"
*Startup Repair*
This takes 1 second.
Root cause found
System volume on disk is corrupt.
*System Restore*
"X - To Perform an offline System Restore, you must specify which Windows installation you would like to restore.
For example, if the installation located in "C:\Windows" should be restored enter the following command:
rstrui.exe /OFFLINE:C:\Windows "
*Windows Complete PC Restore*
" No valid backup locations could be found.
Windows cannot find a backup on the hard disks or DVDs on this computer. Attach the correct hard disks or insert the last backup DVD and then start the restore process again. "
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows cannot check for memory problems...[snip]
*Command Prompt*
This is working fine.
CHKSDK C:
The type of file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
The HDD is 120 GB and is split by Toshiba into 3 partitions.
C:\ drive (56GB) is bootable with Windows - this is corrupted.
D:\ drive (55 GB) has all Data - fully accessible
E:\ drive is CDROM
F:\ drive (1.46 GB) is the WinRE recovery partition - this is fully accessible.
So my question still remains: can I recover my Toshiba laptop using this recovery partition?
PLEASE NOTE: as mentioned above, pressing F8 during boot has no effect and therefore Safe Mode cannot be accessed. -
How to make a new recovery partition on a 600 series
Well I thought this was worth a mention as nobody seems to have said it could be done.
Having just got the cheep 600 series unit working I wanted to restore the RESTORE PARTITION.
Mostly to get the F11 function working as it should after fitting a Brand new HDD.
The OS is WIN7x64 but I would guess the same could be said for others.
It is actually quite simple and perhaps has been described in better detail elsewhere but here we go.
Oh, I actually did this a few different ways and got some very interesting results,
including one that needed the F11 pressing before boot or it would fail to load windows after the recovery.
Nice little hidden security function.! But breaks the restore ability !!!
If you want to disable the F11 recovery option then you need to rename a file.
Perhaps not disable but MakeFail !
So the way it seemed to work goes like this.
You will need your Original Restore DVD's (Cd's) for this if I did not assume that already.
With your new hard disk you need to partition it into three parts.
Either do it in the machine with a bootdisk (BartsPE) or similar
or for quickest results pop the drive into a caddy and do it on a live machine.
If you need to be told how to partition the disk then ask. (Right click My Computer, select Manage)
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NOTICE: >> THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY ANY DATA ON THAT DRIVE ...
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Make these in order.
partition 1 = 100 meg PRIMARY, UNFORMATTED, NO LABEL, NO DRIVE LETTER.
partition 2 = ??? PRIMARY, UNFORMATTED, NO LABEL, NO DRIVE LETTER
(calculate size from remaining space less partition3 size)
partition 3 = PRIMARY, NTFS, ANY LABEL, ANY DRIVE LETTER.
(This needs to be large enough for ALL your recovery disks plus a little more.)
So if you only have one Restore DVD make the third partition about 5gigs.
If you have two 10 gigs and 3Dvd's perhaps 14 or 15 Gigs.
Add some more space if you want to store more stuff on that partition.
Format the 3rd partition, then copy in order ALL the restore disks to the NEW drive.
You can also copy other files to this partition if you want.
Best to keep it tidy and make a new folder for your own stuff.
Stuff like AV installers, Updates, Application installers.
The Recovery process will HIDE ALL folders on the recovery drive but they will still be there.
So that should be it.
You have got 3 partitions?,
You copied all the DVD's to the 3rd one,?
NOW..
Reinstall the drive to the machine.
Put in the "Recovery 1 DVD" and boot the machine.
When asked if you want to use the recovery from disk or harddrive,, select DVD Disk.
Once the install is complete the F11 button on bootup should now work error free.
Well ,, it did for me...
Brand new hard drive with a full system recovery option made from only the Restore DVD's.
I did another system restore via the F11 button just for the fun of it.
Just so you know the system restore takes less than a quarter of the time from HDD over DVD.
I was going to check the process of making another NEW set of DVD recovery disks from the NEW drive,
but perhaps someone else will do that and report back on their progress.
Hv.
I never knew who HP were until my workshop got filled with faulty equipment. !! I know who Apple are now too.Depending on the software you use to clone will it copy the recovery partition or not ex SuperDuper does not.
You can always reinstall the OS on top of what you have. This will re-create the recovery partition without touching your user files, documents, photos, bookmarks etc. After that you may have to run the software update to get the latest OSX update 10.10.1
One draw back to no recovery partition is iCloud>Find my Mac will not be functional.
From option command R on start or from an installer SD card you created.
Recovery http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 -
To make a very tedious story short, My Mac decided that it would crash and not reboot the OS. I decided to bite the bullet and just reformat, sacrificing my very important data. I have tried just about every trick in the book. There is one one major problem I am facing. When I try to reformat the internal HDD using Disk Utility. It fails to unmount. "Make sure that all applications and files are closed on this disk.", Suggesting that the computer is ignoring my command at startup to boot from my external recovery drive, and using the Recovery partition on the problem drive, making it impossible to reformat the drive. When the internal drive is removed and connected by another method it is not recognized.
I failed to read the fine print on the box that suggested I purchase another Mac to fix problems with my primary Mac because any utility with the potential to fix the problem can only be run on a functioning Mac.Booting to any version of the Recovery system, the built in partition on the internal drive, a recovery partition on an external drive or from the Online internet system will not stop you from formatting the Macintosh HD partition on the internal drive. So your problem is not that you are booting from the internal Recovery HD partition. It is probably your internal hard drive has problems, failing.
You could try booting the system from the Online system. At startup hold down the Option/Alt + Command + r keys and keep them held down until you see a globe on the screen. That will boot the system from across the internet from the Apple servers completely removing the internal drive as a boot source. If you still can't erase and format or repartition and format the internal drive then your drive has problems and will need to be replaced. -
Disk Utility from local SSD and Recovery Partition disagree
Hi,
When I run Disk Repair from my 15" MBP's SSD, I get this:
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”Verifying storage systemChecking volumedisk0s2: Scan for Volume Headersdisk0s2: Scan for Disk LabelsLogical Volume Group B133BE17-6899-41E8-B2B2-342B022BB2CC on 1 devicedisk0s2: Scan for Metadata VolumeLogical Volume Group has a 29 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancyStart scanning metadata for a valid checkpointLoad and verify Segment HeadersLoad and verify Checkpoint PayloadLoad and verify Transaction SegmentLoad and verify Transaction SegmentIncorporate 1 newer non-checkpoint transactionLoad and verify Virtual Address TableLoad and verify Segment Usage TableLoad and verify Metadata SuperblockLoad and verify Logical Volumes B-TreesLogical Volume Group contains 1 Logical VolumeLoad and verify 77248876-460F-4A19-B657-5A4CBF702894Load and verify 60268981-5213-4655-8A8A-743044EF5359Load and verify Freespace SummaryLoad and verify Block AccountingLoad and verify Live Virtual AddressesNewest transaction commit checkpoint is validLoad and verify Segment CleaningThe volume B133BE17-6899-41E8-B2B2-342B022BB2CC appears to be OKStorage system check exit code is 0.Verifying file system.Using live mode.Performing live verification.Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.Checking extents overflow file.Checking multi-linked files.Incorrect number of file hard linksChecking catalog hierarchy.Checking extended attributes file.Checking volume bitmap.Checking volume information.The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.File system check exit code is 8.Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
Then, when I run Disk Repair from the Recovery Partition, it says the disk is completely fine.
What should I do? Thanks very much!Exact same problem on 2011 MBA.
- Noticed message after Time Machine backup failed.
- Ran verify with the following results
- restarted with command+R then ran verify and repair in recovery mode with success (all fine)
- ran verify again, fails, again.
Modal message:
This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
Verify history:
Verifying partition map for “APPLE SSD SM256E Media”Checking prerequisitesChecking the partition listChecking for an EFI system partitionChecking the EFI system partition’s sizeChecking the EFI system partition’s file systemChecking all HFS data partition loader spacesChecking booter partitionsChecking booter partition disk0s3Verifying file system.Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.Checking extents overflow file.Checking catalog file.Checking multi-linked files.Checking catalog hierarchy.Checking extended attributes file.Checking volume bitmap.Checking volume information.The volume Recovery HD appears to be OK.File system check exit code is 0.Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitionsVerifying storage systemChecking volumedisk0s2: Scan for Volume Headersdisk0s2: Scan for Disk LabelsLogical Volume Group 238CA2E7-7C17-4312-8A15-BF------ on 1 devicedisk0s2: Scan for Metadata VolumeLogical Volume Group has a 29 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancyStart scanning metadata for a valid checkpointLoad and verify Segment HeadersLoad and verify Checkpoint PayloadLoad and verify Transaction SegmentIncorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactionsLoad and verify Virtual Address TableLoad and verify Segment Usage TableLoad and verify Metadata SuperblockLoad and verify Logical Volumes B-TreesLogical Volume Group contains 1 Logical VolumeLoad and verify 6464BE20-9BFC-4291-A56F-8FCF1E09FA78Load and verify B6790A78-7D56-4264-9A62-D37D5F0ABAAALoad and verify Freespace SummaryLoad and verify Block AccountingLoad and verify Live Virtual AddressesNewest transaction commit checkpoint is validLoad and verify Segment CleaningThe volume 238CA2E7-7C17-4312-8A15-BF69A8----- appears to be OKStorage system check exit code is 0.The partition map appears to be OK
Verifying volume “Firefly”Verifying storage systemChecking volumedisk0s2: Scan for Volume Headersdisk0s2: Scan for Disk LabelsLogical Volume Group 238CA2E7-7C17-4312-8A15-BF69A82AFA9B on 1 devicedisk0s2: Scan for Metadata VolumeLogical Volume Group has a 29 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancyStart scanning metadata for a valid checkpointLoad and verify Segment HeadersLoad and verify Checkpoint PayloadLoad and verify Transaction SegmentIncorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactionsLoad and verify Virtual Address TableLoad and verify Segment Usage TableLoad and verify Metadata SuperblockLoad and verify Logical Volumes B-TreesLogical Volume Group contains 1 Logical VolumeLoad and verify 6464BE20-9BFC-4291-A56F-8FCF1E09FA78Load and verify B6790A78-7D56-4264-9A62-D37D5F0ABAAALoad and verify Freespace SummaryLoad and verify Block AccountingLoad and verify Live Virtual AddressesNewest transaction commit checkpoint is validLoad and verify Segment CleaningThe volume 238CA2E7-7C17-4312-8A15-BF69A----- appears to be OKStorage system check exit code is 0.Verifying file system.Using live mode.Performing live verification.Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.Incorrect block count for file 1768734(It should be 10022 instead of 51590)(It should be 5144 instead of 1298272)Incorrect number of file hard linksChecking catalog hierarchy.Invalid directory item count(It should be 44653 instead of 44654)Invalid directory item count(It should be 34 instead of 33)Checking extended attributes file.Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocksChecking volume information.Invalid volume free block count(It should be 31229092 instead of 29894396)File system check exit code is 8.Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility. -
How to create Windows 8 installation media from Hidden Recovery partition
My laptop (HP Envy 15- j048tx) came pre-installed with a Windows 8 (OEM) on UEFI GPT partition. Somehow I messed up with the pre-installed Windows 8 and made a clean update to Windows 8.1 (Pro) after enabling Legacy BIOS as the boot method in the CMOS setup. Then i realise that the 8.1(pro) doesn't have Windows product key and hence could not be activated. Before I change the boot method from UEFI to BIOS, trying being cautious, i managed to make a copy of the Recovery partition (22.6 GB) to a USB drive. FYI, While I was still using the pre-installed OEM OS, I also tried to create a recovery DVD (which requires 6 DVD) but I gave it up after burning only the first Disc (Disc-1 of 6.)
Now i'm trying to go back to the default Windows 8 provided by the OEM, as I believe, it has with it a product key embedded somewhere in the BIOS. However, I cannot load the Windows from the copy of the recovery partition I've made earlier. Here's what i've worked around unsuccesfully: Burned an ISO of the Disc-1 (recovery DVD) with 'Image Burn', Edited the ISO file with 'WinISO' and added the entire 22.6 GB file from the recovery partition and then generated a USB Installation drive in GPT partition style with 'Rufus'. I disabled the Legacy BIOS mode, enabled Secured boot and tried to re-install Windows 8 but a message pop-up showing "Selected boot image did not authenticate. Press <enter> to continue."
I've tried to look-up the HP site to see if I can get help or to order HP recovery Disc (reluctantly though), but, guess, the site's support section was probably having some problem!
Inspite of all my failed attempt, i'm still hopeful that something can be done to go back to the original OEM Windows from the back-up copy of the recovery partition I have with me. I shall be very grateful if somebody can help me get this mess sorted, while, keeping the ordering of HP Recovery Disc as a last resort.Hi @Renz75
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I understand that you copied the recovery partition to a USB drive before you accidentally did a clean install of Windows 8.1 pro but you did not have an activation key for that version.
When you copied the recovery partition to the USB drive did you use Windows 8 to format the USB for Windows 8 before you copied the recovery manager. If not it will not work properly.
If you did format the USB correctly you can try this.
Format the drive creating the necessary partitions first. Now try coping the recovery manager to the one partition . Once you have it copied then try to access the recovery manager to do a full recovery back to factory.
If this was unsuccessful please contact HP support to obtain a recovery kit.
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http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantage-Technologies/Need-help-with-recovery-partition-create-recov...
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bootrec.exe /fixboot
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F11 option is of course still gone. At this point I'm out of my wits. Any suggestions are welcome.
Solved!
Go to Solution.In the end I formatted and made a clean install. F11 Option is gone. Recovery partition is still untouched, but I don't think it will be used again. Followed this advice to install a fresh Windows 7 using a usb stick:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164
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http://cloud101.eu/blog/2012/03/24/create-a-windows-7-live-disk-from-ubuntu-linux/
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