No Windows and no recovery
Hello there !
I'm very very embarassed.
I installed ubuntu on my laptop, but the installation erase all partition on my computer (recovery, windows 8 ...) i have now just acces to ubuntu and the EFI.
How can i restore/reinstall windows 8 and his recovery partition for the futur ? I have a S/N; P//N and M/O.
Sorry for my english
well, i downloaded windows 8 64bit Enterprise Evl. from microsoft site as says here : http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Recovery/Windows-Vista-7-and-8-ISO-Image-file-Download-Links/t...
and i installed without problem..
but before install the system with ubuntu live cd i booted pc and i found my product key which is embedded in bios.
then installed win8 Enterprise 64bit..
now my problem is activation, when i digit the key , before active it, it says under the box it s correct but when i click to active it then im taking the product key you entered will not work with this edition of windows 8 error..
what should i do
thank you
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Purpose of Retention Policy Recovery Window and Redundancy
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Good Evening,
I have some queries regarding the RMAN Retention Policy Recovery Window and Redundancy.
1. Any condition is there to set the Retention Policy Recovery Window and Redundancy and control_file_record_keep_time?What is the relationship between these 3 parameters?
2. Explain the scenario if i set the control_file_record_keep_time=4 Redundancy=3 and Recovery Window=7?
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Vijay.Hi,
Take a look of the above doc contents:
Configuring the Backup Retention Policy
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so you have option to choose either recovery windows or redundancy based you can set the configuration like
read in the Doc What it said for both:
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3. Minimised Image Recovery
4.Factory Reset.
So now my question to you guys is that.......which option do i chose in recovery manager so that all my backed up content and my stuff on M:\ (which i created) wont be deleted..and the OS will be reinstalled.....
PLIZZZZZ HELPPPPPPPPPPPP.........................
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View Solution.Hi,
I don't believe that any of the recovery options from the Disc will retain your custom partition - As far as I know, the only time you will get a prompt to keep a custom partition is when using the 'Minimized Image Recovery' option from the Recovery Partition D which you have removed.
You could try the following work-around.
Download the correct Windows 7 Disc Image from the link below - this must be exactly the same version as your OEM installation - ie if your notebook came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit this is the version you would need to download.
Windows-7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit
Use an application such as ImgBurn to burn the ISO correctly to a blank DVD - a guide on using ImgBurn to write an ISO to a disc is Here.
Use the disc you create to perform the installation - when you get to the option to choose the type of installation, choose Custom and select the C partition.
When asked, enter the Windows activation key found on the underside of your notebook, then when the installation has completed, use the 'Phone Method' detailed in the link below to activate the OS - this method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who just want a clean installation of Windows 7 without the additional software load normally bundled with OEM installations.
http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-windows-7-by-phone.aspx
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I just downloaded the latest version of iTunes for Windows and now iTunes crashes everytime I launch it. I have tried re-downloading and selecting Repair with no luck. Any suggestions?
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Hard drive detected but will not boot Windows Vista or recovery disk
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I have a very similar issue with a HP Pavillion a6355.uk, the hard drive kept crshing windows and then it finally just kept getting pass the HP boot menu options, and then all I get is the DOS "@press ctrl+alt+del to restart".
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http://support.hp.com/gb-en/product/HP-Pavilion-a6300-Desktop-PC-series/3644673/model/3671505/driver...
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Vista 32bit .iso You must have a valid installation key, which should be on the COA sticker on the computer, to activate the installation once it completes. ImageBurn to create the .iso disk. Driver page Vista (not 64 bit)
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Can anyone suggest to which date should i reset the BIOS or anyother workarounds??
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Re: HP Operating System DVD - Windows XP Pro. SP2 - HP or Compaq PC. No. DVD Kit 361935-001
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I read the following online and not sure what it means:
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The tech at the apple store told me that one of the heat sink pins on the CPU just plan broke off and another wasn't attached correctly. Essentially the system kept overheating as I was consisently completely maxxing out the system doing CGI test renders for my junior animated short film. The cooling system was never fully connected at the factory according to the Apple Tech. I don't know how literate everyone reading this is on computer engineering but, when you overheat an IC, whether it's an ASIC or CPU, they dont' immediately crash, they corrupt data. To further complicate the mess and increase teh chances of data corruption, with the 4th gen Intel i series CPUs (which the MBP uses), they moved the northbridge directly into the CPU die. So if teh CPU is overheating, the chances of data corruption inadvertantly go up even higher. I'm suspecting that happened in the first few days of owning the system but that it was minor at that point. It can take months for the effects of corrupted data to propagate out and be visible to the user.
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Currently under the windows 7 install with Maya and Vue, later iterations of the scene file, from Maya, for my animated short film, have a reproduceable glitch involving a gamma shift and camera selection. Part of the scene files seem to be corrupt and were saved that way.
Reloading the OS from the recovery partition did not fix the original problem I've been having that I initially asked for help with. I'm considering wiping out the recovery partition in addition to reinstalling windows 7 and OS X again, it would be the only way to completely eliminate the possibility of any corrupted data floating around on either partition. I don't have a way of knowing if corrupted data was written to the SSD beyond the corrupted Maya scene files. The only way I can be sure that it's 'contained' or eliminated, is if I completely wipe the drive and start from scratch. Now would be a great time rather than in the middle of working on my senior thesis for my BFA degree.
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The overheating also corrupted my journal but there is no way to recover it, I overwrote the earlier file(it looks like uncompiled C++ and jibberished text) when I saved it after completing an entry. This was many months ago. Though the idea of attempting a restore with Ubuntu Remix or other recovery Linux distros is appealing I'm doubtful I'd get far, though it's an SSD not a traditional harddrive and they don't work the same.
Back to the main point though, I suspect the overheating corrupted a prefs file which is causing the glitch I'm seeing, and reloading the OS did not fix it. -
Recover Windows 7 with Recovery Media from WXP
Created a Recovery Media from a preinstalled ThinkCentre (M58p) Windows 7. Stored on DVD including WINR.WIM total size 257 Mb. Installed Windows XP using Lenovo RnR DVD's. So far no problem.
Now wanting to know how I can recover the factory W7. Used the Recovery Media W7, Windows starts Product Recovery, selected method 'Restore to factory default state'.
Wizard asks for Product Recovery Disc 1.
I created the Recovery Media in assumption having the opportunity to restore the factory Windows 7.
Do I need the recovery disks of Lenovo for this? Does the Recovery Media only work in combination with W7 OS?
F11 starts RnR for the WXP. The recovery partition of W7 seems to be deleted by the recovery of WXP.
In the past (pre-ThinkVantage-period) I used Ghost for the original factory OS's, did work nicely.
Solved!
Go to Solution.Hi,
welcome to the forum.
Ok, so let's start from the scratch. What you have created while the Win7 was instaled was not an "image" nor a backup of your system. That was just a bootable "Rescue" disc, so that in case you cannot boot up into OS, you can boot from this CD and this will give you some options to save your date, etc.
Unfortunately on your protection I have to tell, that it is a bit harder to differ the two buttons, where one says "Create Rescue and Recovery disc" and the second one "Create recovery media". The one will create a disk, like you have. The second one will create you a new set of recovery CDs, that you could use for the restore of your system.
So in this situation, where also the original RnR Win7 partition is gone, Is the only chance to get back to Win7, to call support and ask for the Recovery CDs.
Let me know, if this post helps you. a bit.
Also feel free to asky any add question. I'll be happy to answer them if I know the correct answer
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Windows and xp will not boot (1st gen Mac Pro)
i have a first generation mac pro and i am having trouble booting into my boot camp volumes.
when i run an option boot i get four icons
1. Lion
2. windows
3. windows
4. disk recovery
i have a note on my screen here that tells me the first windows icon is windows 7 and the second icon is windows xp. however, every time i click on one of these disks the screen either locks up or the icon stays selected and i have to do a /manual/ shutdown and it /usually/ will boot into whatever windows volume i had selected.
NOW when i try this i am getting windows recovery messages and when i tell it to boot into windows normally it kicks me out to a computer RESTART and then it will boot into Mac OS.
i realize i can /change/ the regular boot volume to trick it into booting back into whichever windows volume i am trying to use but at this point this all seems like things are going off the rails somehow.
i have just recently moved all my data to drive 3 and am cloning this data to drive 4. drive 1 is Lion with a partition containing windows 7 and drive 2 is a 500 GB volume containing my xp install.
SHOULD I pull out all the disks and put them back in to make sure they are seated properly? should i move them around physically in the drive perhaps? should i run some software boot restore/re-index software?
i really, really have to finish this reconfiguration of my machine but - is it possible this is simply due to the age of the computer in which case i will spend time on this after buying a new mac pro that will upgrade to Mountain Lion...
TIA, jon
(also posted in mac pro forums)holycow.
this is helpful to know.
thanks i will check into this.
man, this could be a bit of an issue over here which i have to wrap my head around... -
I have partitioned the internal hard drive and am running Lion and Win7 Pro on my iMac i5 2.7GHz with 16GB RAM. Can I use Boot Camp to create a Windows partition on an OSX external hard drive to use for backing up both systems to the same HDD? I do NOT want to install OSX Lion or Windows 7 Professional on the external drive. I do NOT want to boot either system from the external drive. The 3TB external drive is for backup only.
Use NTFS for Windows and buy Paragon NTFS for OS X
You can also try Paragon HFS for Windows
As long as you are using for data and backups, you can leave the drive as GPT too.
I would recommend strongly to always have a 2nd bootable Mac OS drive, only need 30GB partition. System maintenance. Though LIon Recovery Mode finally makes it less but not totally unneeded.
And yes you can use Windows to create a partition.
Boot Camp is too broad. Do you want or mean BC Assistant? not needed but probably possible.
MBR has trouble with 3TB drives.
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