Recovery set

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i have made a recovery set on a usb drive last october but have lost the **bleep** thing, so i have brought another to re make a recovery set but i get a message that i have already made one, i wish to back up my system and all my music and photos etc please advise on how to proceed, i am not very computer savy so plain easy steps please
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zigzag1300

A Recovery set does NOT include your photos, files,etc. It is simply a copy of the files in your recovery partition that can be used to reinstall Windows & software/drivers that came originally on the laptop.It returns the laptop to out-of-box status.
Though photos,files can be backed up using the method suggested above by AntonyG1 it is not a very elegant backup strategy and usually the files are difficult- sometimes impossible- to restore.
To do a more efficient backup I suggest you look into process of backing up personal files. There are third party apps that do this some free. Windows 8.1 does have a builtin backup app for personal files which is rather misleading in tiltle though. It is File History.
http://www.7tutorials.com/introducing-windows-8-how-backup-data-file-history
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I checked the instructions here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01867124&lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en#N1014
It warns of two things
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2) Also, USB flash drives that are branded with the Windows 8 compatible logo do not work. (maybe this is the problem?)
One could also use DVD's
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Time Machine: "Unable to copy the recovery set"

I am using OSX 10.7.5 and attempting to set up Time Machine to back up to an external 1TB WD My Passport for Mac drive. I've worked through a couple of issues during setup, but I'm still seeing some odd logging in the Console and I'm not sure it's truly working.
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My hp support assistance has suggest me to create a recovery sets.
I has a problem with my recovery manager software,when i click on create a recovery set,nothing happen.
There is no message which appeared,nothing
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rebeccamamedy wrote:
This is the first time that i use this program concerning recovery partition,i has not made any change in the recovery partition because i has never enter this part in my pc.
My pc is still in warranty,thank for your help.
OK. That is good.
It means that you can actually use the recovery manager, when required, by pressing the power button and then tapping the F11 key.
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Create a Recovery Set?

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It would be very wise to create a usb recovery flash drive.
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The techs at the place where you bought it gave you poor advice.
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Recovery setting in CS6?

I'm testing out Photoshop CS6 to see if there's much a difference between CS5, and i'm noticing that there's no Recovery mode in Camera RAW for my file, they seemed to have changed Camera RAW a lot. Is there no Recovery setting anymore? I have been using this since CameraRAW essentials, which Adobe ended up purchasing so i had to use Camera RAW.

Hello, in the new 2012 process version, recovery is not needed anymore.
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http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-design/russell-brown-amazing -wonders-of-adobe-camera-raw-70-in-photoshop-cs6/
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-cs6-featuretour/adobe-camera-raw-70-in-photoshop-cs6/
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HI
I have a HP pavilion g series laptop with a big fat red exclamation mark on the HP support assistant.
Says I need to create a recovery set. Went out a bought a brand new 32g sandisk flash drive.When I insert it computer says the capacity of the inserted drive is insufficient. Have tried it in all the ports and same message
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When requesting assistance, please provide the complete model name and/or product number of the HP computer in question. HP/Compaq makes thousands of models of computers that are all different. Without this information it may be difficult or impossible to assist you in resolving your issue.
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Regarding having a faulty hard drive (no recovery partition), if you and a friend have the same computer model you could buy a new hard drive (maybe 120GB) and clone the good one from one computer to use in the one that had a bad hard drive then make a recovery set from the clone as well as the original, I did this and it's worked.
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Product name: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC, unable to take the recovery set using sandisk cruzer 32GB

I am unable to take the recovry set through HP Recovery Manager by using New SANDISK CRUZER SWITCH (32 GB)
It is prompting to insert the USB drive or Disks, once i insert the USB drive its not moving to further steps.
Please rectify this problem
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If you are running Windows 8 and you are using a flash drive that has the Windows 8 compatibility icon that could very likely be the problem. It is a known issue and last I heard on it HP is working on a patch/update for Recovery Manager. If it has been released it should be on your driver page. If not I suggest trying an older flash drive with no Win 8 compatibilty icon.
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Can not create 3rd disc of recovery set.

Hello,
I am using HP Pavilion G6-2103TU Laptop. I am getting an error when trying to create 3rd DVD-R.when it verify 97% that say this message"Disc verify failed . Please use another disc and try again.”
Then i tray to create in safe mode it say ' please install battery' My power adapter is connected.
Then i follow the suggestion of hp expert Mr. Drvidpk
Start the notebook and let Windows fully load. Hold down the Windows key and press R. In to the Run box type msconfig and hit enter. In the following System Configuration window, click the Start up tab, remove the tick next to each start up item and then click Apply to make the change.
But this changes same problem occur 'please install battery' pls help.........
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I don't know that the recovery disks can be created in safe mode. There will be certain software components that are disabled in safe mode that may impact how the program functions.
Have you tried to create disk 3 in normal mode again? It could have been a one off event that caused the first write of disk 3 to fail. Alternatively, you can contact HP to see what options are available of getting a set sent to you.
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Disaster Recovery set-up for SharePoint 2013

Hi,
We are migrating our SP2010 application to SP2013. It would be on-premise setup using virtual environment.
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How can order win.8 recovery set in india?...

Hello sir,
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Call them up and ask, they'll be happy to send you one:
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http://support.hp.com/in-en/document/bph07143/
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