Recovery and EFI System Partitions both reading 100% Free after I Factory Reset

I own a Hp Envy dv7 Notebook PC running Windows 8 64Bit for about 1 year now. I recently did a Factory Reset, now my Recovery and EFI Partitions say 100% Free on both partitions. I used the recovery disks I made two days after I purchased computer.

Hi,
Is it "Factory Reset" you mentioned inside Windows(Change PC settings\General\Reset)? After you execute this feature, it would remove all the file in your current system drive and reinstall your system in fact. However it won't make any influence with
other drive.
In addition, generally speaking, OEM Recovery and EFI partitions should be hidden, how did you find them 100% free? I'm sorry for your loose, to fix this problem, you may need contact HP support for further assistance.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Similar Messages

This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk.

As stated above. I get this when I try to resize my HD. Was having issues with BootCamp so I removed it and got this.
This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk.

the same problem...
any help?

MacBookPro SSD Error- ALERT: The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's file system.

MacBook Pro OS x Mavericks. I have Sandisk 256GB SSD and I am getting a below error message.
ALERT: The partition map needs to be repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's file system.
Does anyone know how to resolve this error and fix it ? unfortunately I don't have a Time Machine backup. Thanks!

Have you tried to run the verify/repair permissions and verify/repair disk through the recovery disk? If that didn't work then I would reinstall the OS after backing up. If that still doesn't work I would take it in.

How do you repair the EFI systems partitions when you mac tells you that the live file system is not supported?

how do you repair the EFI systems partitions when you mac tells you that the live file system is not supported?

I don't have good news. You will need to repartition and reformat the hard drive in order to determine if the drive is still OK or if it needs to be replaced. If your computer is a 2011 model or later do the following:
Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This should restore the version of OS X originally pre-installed on the computer.
If your computer is pre-2011 model, then locate the original installer discs that came with the computer. Then do this:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1. You can now download a version of OS X from which to upgrade from your Purchases page in the App Store.

How do i make an EFI system Partition

Today, I rebooted my 2009 Macbook Pro and I tried to bootcamp, when it said "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows." I went to disk utility to see if there was a problem, so I verified the disk. When I verified the disk, it said there was a problem in my partition map and "This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk."

Erase, reformat, and partition the HD. The EFI partition is created when you do that.

[SOLVED] UEFI doesn't "see" the 'EFI System' partition

My BIOS/UEFI stop from "see" the 'EFI System' partition, there's shellx64.efi and a gummiboot installation and when I try to launch the shell only get "Not found" message.
Here's the GPT:
$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 625142448 sectors, 298.1 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 8700C28A-71B0-416A-971A-DDAD1961D56E
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 625142414
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2669 sectors (1.3 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 1640447 800.0 MiB EF00 EFI System
2 1640448 78815231 36.8 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
4 111316992 251867135 67.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
5 251867136 253968383 1.0 GiB 8200
6 253968384 625141759 177.0 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
7 78815232 111316991 15.5 GiB 8300
File list:
$ ls /mnt/boot/efi
bootx64.efi EFI loader shellx64.efi
This happened after a unsuccessfully fedora's bootloader installation.
Last edited by hotvic (2015-02-23 00:34:34)

I finally managed out what is the problem.
The problem is that Fedora Installer (anaconda) wrote the MBR code to disk. so the UEFI partition isn't read by BIOS (I think, not sure).
The solution for me was erase the protective-MBR:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
and then fix the GPT:
# gdisk /dev/sda
## just type 'w' and confirm
after that reinstalled the gummiboot and voila
Thanks to all and sorry my very bad english.

Wbadmin - access to EFI system partition fails

Sorry, but I could not change the headline in the thread were I started this issue. But error 0x807800C5 is too imprecise
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/79a735c1-4c50-4fa8-a945-46e25991eea9/wbadmin-failure-0x807800c5?forum=windowsbackup#47e77a02-ddb0-42dd-b33d-1475471f7bc3
So I sumarize the case:
Server 2012R2
Hypervisor with several running VM's
Up2Date 3/18/15
After weeks of succesfull backups wbadmin suddenly fails with 0x807800C5. No changes were made to the system, same backup device.
I restored a file and a VM succesfully from the backup to verify that the disk and the image is ok.
I run wbadmin from a script with:
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -vssFull -allCritical -hyperv:vm1,vm2,vm3
Output is:
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > The backup operation to F: is starting.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Windows Server Backup is updating the existing backup to remove files that have
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > been deleted from your server since the last backup.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > This might take a few minutes.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Creating a backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (100.00 MB), copied (0%).
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Summary of the backup operation:
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > ------------------
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF >
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > The backup operation stopped before completing.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > The backup operation stopped before completing.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Detailed error: The specified backup disk cannot be found.
I found out that the failure only occurs if I add the -allCritical switch.
If I start the backup for drive c: with this command:
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -include:C: -vssFull -exclude:c:\Hyper-V
everything is ok.
I can backup every virtual machine with the following command without any problem
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -vssFull -hyperv:XYZ-DOM
Only this command fails:
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -vssFull -allCritical
The difference is that wbadmin now tries to backup ALL partitions, also EFI & Co. So I assume that wbadmin does not have proper access to the "EFI System Partition" and that all information which one can find in the logs of the
2012 server related to that event is bullshit (Error: The specified backup disk cannot be found).
I found reports of 8.1 users rleated to similar problems (http://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/forum/windows8_1-files/systemabbildsicherung-bricht-ab/f6ed5e53-829e-48be-9b47-a73f730680cc?page=1&tm=1384095732725). Could be a hint, same kernel.
But at the end: With this kind of backup you'll loose defintly the possibility of an bare-metal restore, very
unsatisfying.
Annother question: Backups with the -hyperv switch are terrible slow. The backups are written to an USB-3 disk, The xyz-Dom machine for example has two vhdx files with roundabout 700GB, more or less 350GB filled. The backup needs 12 hours!
Thank you
Klaus Deiss

Sorry, but I could not change the headline in the thread were I started this issue. But error 0x807800C5 is too imprecise
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/79a735c1-4c50-4fa8-a945-46e25991eea9/wbadmin-failure-0x807800c5?forum=windowsbackup#47e77a02-ddb0-42dd-b33d-1475471f7bc3
So I sumarize the case:
Server 2012R2
Hypervisor with several running VM's
Up2Date 3/18/15
After weeks of succesfull backups wbadmin suddenly fails with 0x807800C5. No changes were made to the system, same backup device.
I restored a file and a VM succesfully from the backup to verify that the disk and the image is ok.
I run wbadmin from a script with:
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -vssFull -allCritical -hyperv:vm1,vm2,vm3
Output is:
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > The backup operation to F: is starting.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Windows Server Backup is updating the existing backup to remove files that have
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > been deleted from your server since the last backup.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > This might take a few minutes.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Creating a backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (100.00 MB), copied (0%).
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Summary of the backup operation:
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > ------------------
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF >
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > The backup operation stopped before completing.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > The backup operation stopped before completing.
2015-03-18 23:02:17 INF > Detailed error: The specified backup disk cannot be found.
I found out that the failure only occurs if I add the -allCritical switch.
If I start the backup for drive c: with this command:
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -include:C: -vssFull -exclude:c:\Hyper-V
everything is ok.
I can backup every virtual machine with the following command without any problem
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -vssFull -hyperv:XYZ-DOM
Only this command fails:
wbadmin.exe start backup -quiet -backupTarget:f:\ -vssFull -allCritical
The difference is that wbadmin now tries to backup ALL partitions, also EFI & Co. So I assume that wbadmin does not have proper access to the "EFI System Partition" and that all information which one can find in the logs of the
2012 server related to that event is bullshit (Error: The specified backup disk cannot be found).
I found reports of 8.1 users rleated to similar problems (http://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/forum/windows8_1-files/systemabbildsicherung-bricht-ab/f6ed5e53-829e-48be-9b47-a73f730680cc?page=1&tm=1384095732725). Could be a hint, same kernel.
But at the end: With this kind of backup you'll loose defintly the possibility of an bare-metal restore, very
unsatisfying.
Annother question: Backups with the -hyperv switch are terrible slow. The backups are written to an USB-3 disk, The xyz-Dom machine for example has two vhdx files with roundabout 700GB, more or less 350GB filled. The backup needs 12 hours!
Thank you
Klaus Deiss

Problem with the EFI system partition's file system.

I installed latest yosemite 10.10.2 update - did a verify disk on “WDC WD1001FALS-403AA0 Media” (internal HD on my iMac 21.5-inch, Mid 2011) and got
Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting
Error: The partition map needs to be repaired because there’s a problem with the EFI system partition’s file system.
However a verify disk on the volume partition gets a clean bill of health!
I haven't done a 'repair disk' yet. Thought I'd check if anybody else has same message first.
Cheers

I had issues where my MacPro 8-core would not boot after the 10.7.4 upgrade, but my MacBook Air 13" 2011 upgrade worked just fine.
I had to restore my MacPro HD from my TimeMachine back up. Apparently, the Softraid raid drivers that I use on my MacPro are not compatible yet with 10.7.4. See here for more info:
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120511_1-MacOSX-SoftRAID.html
I contacted Softraid and they are already aware of the issues and are working with Apple for a fix.
Cheers.
Bud

Adobe digital does not recognise my Kobo e-reader following update. Tried factory reset of Kobo and re-installing adobe. Any suggestions please?

Adobe digital does not recognise my Kobo e-reader following update. Tried factory reset of Kobo and re-installing Adobe. Any suggestions please?

The lack of response is deafening. Im guessing then that Firefoix has serious issues then?..well it'll be there loss if more, like me, opt for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome (both these browsers work fine with the latest Flash Player installed)

HT1695 On the setup after a factory reset I get to choose my network. I have three full bars and my wifi is checked. It just stays on that screen and won't go any further

I'm trying to setup my ipad after a factory reset. I get to the screen that says choose network. I choose mine and it puts a checkmate next to it. I have all the bars for wifi and that's all that happens. It just stays on that screen. It won't highlight the next button so I can go on. Any help?

Turn off router for 30 seconds and on again; try connecting again when router is ready.

After I factory reset my Iphone 4s, I can't finish the step where it ask for WIFI Network, I guess it don't detect WIFI and can't connect to iTunes also. What should I do?

I can't finish the step after I factory reset my iphone 4s because I can't get thru with the CHOOSE YOUR WIFI NETWORK

If you can't see your WiFi then is your router broadcasting the SSID or do you not get to that point?

Gummiboot error : file system is not a fat efi system partition (ESP)

I am at the point the guide tells me to do some specific work because I got UEFI motherboard
I did a fat 32 partition (type ef00) of 1G , which is my sda3
I created a dir /mnt/boot
I mounted the sda3 there
I type pacman -S gummiboot
result is File system /boot is not a fat efi system parttition file system
error: command failed to execute correctly
I don't get what I did wrong or what I understood wrong in the wiki. My partition is fat32, I try to install the bootloader gummiboot there but I take that error msg even if it's indeed formated as fat32.
edit: i've run the pacstrap -i /mnt base , everything worked smoothly and fast.
Last edited by bigboss (2013-10-10 19:07:22)

Hopefully you also say this line:
gummiboot install wrote:Copied /usr/lib/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi to /boot/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI.
The \EFI\boot\bootx64.efi spot on the ESP is special. It is the "default" spot, which was originally intended to ensure that a UEFI USB flash drive, or other external media, would be able to boot. So in those cases, there is obviously not going to be a firmware entry as there potentially are for internal devices. So with external media, it finds the first ESP it can and automatically boots whatever is placed in that position. After a while, this feature started to be implemented to the internal devices as well.
This of course has its benefits, but also downsides. It means that you can actually boot UEFI without making an efibootmgr entry at all. You can instead set the machine to boot from the device (as though you were booting with the old MBR system) and have things set to UEFI. It will then, like the external devices, find the first ESP and then boot the \EFI\boot\bootx64.efi, whatever that is. But this also has made it so that different installers will "compete" for that default spot. So although gummiboot copying itself to that spot is in my opinion, convenient, I believe the microsoft installer will also make an attempt to write over this as well. Hence, it is better (but not essential) to have a firmware entry.
As far as the efibootmgr mounting issue you had, it may be that the info is not in the beginners guide simply because of the recent changes to the efibootmgr binary. See this section of the UEFI wiki page to understand what happened. Baiscally there is a new system in the kernel for EFI variables, and we have now switched fully. But I also agree with jasonwryan here that it is also likely that there just simply has to be a balance between providing a nice up to date layout of the installation process in the beginners guide, while not totally regurgitating every single but of information from the rest of the wiki.

Fingerprint Reader not working after windows password reset

Hi There
I was using windows login (single admin user) and fingerprint reader to login to my Thinkpad T510. Yesterday night I changed windows password and I didn't update finger print. Unfortunately I am not able to login when I tried to login using windows login today, I forgot the password and when I tried finger print reader it is just throwing error.
Why finger print is not working after windows password reset? What should I do to login?
Help would be appreciated!!

I just called the tech support just now? I just asked the 'why the finger print reader not recognizing the finger print after changing windows password?', and he gave the following answers
1. You should change fingerprint while changing windows password. I don't understand the reason behind it, btw is this true?
2. We can't do anything for this issue.

Recovery and creating new partitions

Hello,
I have recently purchased a Satellitte A500-02F PSAR3C-02F008 with Windows7 in Canada. I had some trouble with Adobe Photoshop, I tried to uninstall all Adobe application on the computer, and now I am not able to install not even Adobe Reader. Since I only had it for a short period of time, and did not install too much, I thought that a new, clean installation would allow me to try to install Photoshop again.
Now, I have a few questions:
1. What should I use to reinstall Windows 7 clean: HDD recovery partition, or the DVD-s created after the initial installation?
2. Where could I find some step-by-step instructions on how to do the installation?
3. I would like to make a few newer partitions on the HDD, and install Windows XP on one, and Linux Ubuntu on another one. Has anyone some idea how to do that? Should I try to partition the HDD using some software under the present Windows7 (which works ok, if it wasn't for Adobe)? Or should I do the partition with Ubuntu or XP installation CD-s and install each OS on the partitions thus created?
Thanks!
LiviuM

Either. The results would be exactly the same.
In your user's guide. That can be found on the laptop in Adobe Acrobat Format and can be downloaded from the Product Support Link at the top of this page. SInce you don't have acrobat on your laptop now you'll need to use a different system to view it.
http://apcmag.com/the_definitive_dualbooting_guide_linux_vista_and_xp_stepbystep.htm
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

How to rotate and save documents in both Reader and Acrobat Pro?

I am reciving Emails with documents that are attached to them. They come to me upside down.
I rotate them so they are in the correct position and save them to my desk top.
But, when I re-open them the darn things are upside down again.
How can I permanently change the rotation of a document?
Thanks!
Dunc

In Reader you can't.
In Acrobat, you select the pages and use the Rotate tools in the page navigator (the left side panel) - *not* the options on the View menu; those are just temporary.

Recovery and EFI System Partitions both reading 100% Free after I Factory Reset

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for