HP recovery/partition/disks

HP pavilion desktop 6540f. Purchased refurbished machine from reliable retail chain in the city. Spent 6 months or so crashing/recovering, cyclically and serially until absolutely dead. Had purchased additional warranty so took it twice plus used 2 local consultants, several trips, large investment of personal time travelling to city and lots of $ involved, none of which recognized of course in warranty - our own problem in buying from a remote area I guess but still not great situation. Over nearly 2 months, shop evaluated, replaced motherboard, hard drive, wireless card at their cost for parts and time and ran extended tests. They only re-installed Windows 7 (64 bit), no HP, and reformatted losing the HP partition.
Issues:
- Is it worthwhile to reestablish the original partitions?
- If so, how best to do so, considering that the recovery made were done while machine was dying?
- Should I even keep these disks?
Advice please. Thanks donp

The recovery DVDs will recover the system to factory fresh Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. It will also install all updates/drivers/titles that shipped with the PC originally. You can see them below.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02155464&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en...
If you have the disks you made yourself, it should recover fine, and relatively quickly. If you have "Support Sent Recovery Disks" it will recover as well, albeit it will take a bit longer.
If you don't have any of the recovery disks - I'd say stay the course with what you've got.
If you're skittish - and have a spare hard drive - I'd suggest putting that in (at least temporarily) to test out the recovery from disks before you wipe out what you have. There is a slight chance that if the folks servicing the computer didn't take all the right steps when replacing the motherboard, they may have messed up the ability for the restore discs to work properly.
Good luck..
-DM (I am a long-time HP employee)
-DM (HP Retiree)
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http://www.eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
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Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
Press return when done typing sudo pdisk -l
-l include a lower case L
The sudo command will ask for your administration password. No characters will appear when typing your password. Press return when done typing. sudo stands for super user do. It's just like root. Be careful.
mac $ sudo pdisk -l
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PR7 wrote:
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PR7 wrote:
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Disk Utility from local SSD and Recovery Partition disagree

Hi,
When I run Disk Repair from my 15" MBP's SSD, I get this:
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Modal message:
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How do I create an install disk from recovery partition to install on a blank hd

So, my hard drive is slowly dying . . . about all I'm able to access is the recovery partition. I bought a new hard drive to replace it, but no longer have the install disks that came with the computer. How do I make install disks from the recovery partition that I can use to install Mountain Lion back onto the new hard drive?

You have two possibilities:
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2. Download Recovery Disk Assistant from the Support website to create a Recovery HD on your USB drive.
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I have HP Pavilion dv6000 Windows Vista Home Premium with Recovery Partition at drive D:\. Here is my problem. I want to use the System Recovery to put my PC to its default setting, I have use Recovery Manager, but System Recovery does not work. I have also use a recovery disk, but nothing works. Using the Recovery disk, while the recovery is in process formatting the windows partition, and the process reaches 33%, a windows error pop-out (Error: ox4001100200001005). I need help because my laptop is unstable and I cannot work.
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Dv7t-6000 my recovery partition gone and HP wants $50 to mail me a restore disk.

dv7t-6000 my recovery partition gone and HP wants $50 to mail me a restore disk.
Does anyone have a download link for this; it's criminal HP does not offer it to customers free. I already paid for it once when I bought the laptop.
thanks

I see from your screenshot that you have added a partition- and in the process the hard drive was converted from Basic to Dynamic. This always breaks Recovery function..
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http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html
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I searched the forums to find an answer to this question, but was unable to find one. It seems to me that it might be useful info for others trying to create Recovery CD/DVDs from a failed hard drive that still has an accessible Recovery Partition so hopefully we can figure out a solution. :-)
I have a Pavilion dv9408ca (Vista Home) with a hard drive that won't boot. I removed the hard drive and was able to read it on another system. I was also able to to create a Virtual Machine and run it so I recovered all the important data. I installed it in an external drive case and tried to boot from it but I wasn't able to access the Recovery Partition (F11 option didn't show and didn't work), and Windows wouldn't load.
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Or... Can I create a set of Recovery CDs from another Pavilion Notebook (different model but same Vista OS) and use those to format/recover the dv9408ca system?
Thank you for your help with this problem.

peter_hp wrote:
Or... Can I create a set of Recovery CDs from another Pavilion Notebook (different model but same Vista OS) and use those to format/recover the dv9408ca system?
This is only option which might work for you provided the product number of other laptop matches with your existing system Else you can order a set of recovery disk for your Notebook(dv9408ca) from here for a nominal charge.
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My sister asked to again "fix" her Toshiba laptop because it was full of viruses. The last time, I had to reformat it in order to completely remove all the junk toolbars, etc. I saw all the junk programs again and decided it would be quicker and easier to reformat it again (I backed it up first) but something went wrong. It will not reinstall the OS. It will not boot from the system repair disk. I have set up and reformatted multiple computers and I have never ever had this issue occur. Startup repair runs for a while, says it can't automatically fix the laptop, lists "No OS installed" among errors. I've tried going into the BIOS and making various changes. The recovery partition seems to be gone and the repair disk is of no use. Does anyone have any suggestions? Because I'm looking at buying a new hard drive. I think it got corrupted by a virus or me doing something wrong, even though I did everything I did the last time.

Hi! In your situation, I recommend ordering the recovery media from Toshiba. I'm thinking that your OS has been corrupted by a Virus and you no longer have the hidden recovery partition. I have replied on the other message also. If you have further questions, I will try to answer them as best I can. You can get the Toshiba recovery media here. Scroll down to the bottom to find recovery media.
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Hi There
I did a clean install of my T510 with Windows 7 64bit. I didn't create recovery disks prior to doing this, however I still have the recovery partition. How do I go about creating the recovery disks and/or how would I go about recovering to factory defaults now from the recovery partition?
Thanks
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Hi, thanks for your replies,
I have been looking at the disk management utility. What I usually do is make my DAW/uadio partition first when I format as it wriotes to teh outer part of the hard disk which is quicker as teh read and write heads have less to travel, and then I stick my main general partition next, as i dont care if its not so fast.
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Where could I find, live disk or other to restore HDD recovery partition?

Hello I have a A300 1M9 system unit.
I need to restore the HDD recovery partition, I had to change the harddrive disk, cause he is dead.
Is there any link where I could download the files? ISO img or other program able to create a new recovery partition on a new disk?
This computer is not under warranty, because he has more than 4 years.
Thank you for all the support you could give me
Seb
ps : second question : wich kind of hard drive disk could I buy for that model ? Wich connector, 2 1/2 hdd and sata? Ide? I dont know.
Message was edited by: Seaone

Hi and welcome in our community.
This is user-to-user forum so here you will not get answer from Toshiba technicians.
I have a bit experience with Toshiba laptops. Meanwhile I use my third Toshiba machine. ;)
I have A300 to and must say it is very good piece of hardware. So here is answer to your question:
Recovery image cannot be downloaded. You got your notebook with preinstalled Vista and preinstalled Toshiba recovery disc creator tool. With this tool you could create recovery disc. This disc can be used in situation when recovery partition is damaged or you want to use new HDD.
So I presume you dont have it. Original recovery disc can be ordered on https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx
My advice: I use Win7 32bit on my A300 and it works perfectly and very stabile. Dont waste your time trying to obtain original recovery disc. Install own Win7 version. F you need some assistance I can help you with installation and configuration.

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