Updating the recovery partition...

I have been running 8.1 on this little laptop - it came loaded with 8. Out of curiosity I upgraded it to Win 10 without event and everything appeared to be working fine. I decided to return it to Win 8.1. Instead of using the Windows "revert" feature I used F10 and even though the Wizard said it had found and was restoring Win 10 it returned it to 8. Probably exactly what its supposed to do. My question/issue is "How can I update the recovery partition so that it will restore my current OS?" Thanks in advance for your help. Howard==============================VAIO® E Series LaptopModel # SVE11135CXWSerial # 54528236 0004883Service TAG C60BTK8H

Hi Howard_Woodard,
Welcome to Sony Community!
Your question was "How can I update the recovery partition so that it will restore my current OS?"
Actually, there is no way to update the recovery partition, whenever you do the Full Format Recovery it will always go back to its original operating system.
On the Recovery Wizard, what you will see there is the currect OS installed on your computer (Windows 10), when the process begun you will be reverted back to the original OS.
I hope this helps you.
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Thanks!
(by the way, I know that Microsoft doesn't like it if we make more than one copy of a recovery disk, since they can install Windows on a blank HDD on any computer, but will copying a recovery DVD with a DVD burner allow the new set to work? I've had my old set for a while and I fear that they'll fail soon. Maybe there's a way to hack HP's recovery disk creation program so that we could make a second set?)

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1.Right-click on "Computer" icon and select manage.
2.This will launch the Microsoft Management Console.
3.On the left side of the MMC, click on "Disk Management" and it will show you all of the partitions.
4.Right-click on the "HP Recovery" partition and select "Mark as Active Partition."
5.When the warning prompt appears, select "Yes" - Reboot and it will automatically boot into the Recovery Manager (without pressing F11).
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Hi HectorSVS15,
Welcome to Sony Community!
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HP Pavilion [Dv600/Dv6700] Recover The Recovery Partition Using Undelete Software

Hey what's up,
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Hi,
I need serious help,,,,,,any help is appreciated :
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--- someone on internet suggested to make the recovery partition , "active", so i did it through disk management
--- then when windows boot up, it went directly to previous recovery page with inactive botton,, i can not access my previous windows , i can not boot up to windows again
--- so now it boots up and goes to useless recovery page
--- through bios activated "HP Quick web" , and playing with photo viewer in quickweb i noticed all my files on the "maybe burnt drive" are all there!!!!    and i can view them,,,,,,,   ooops!!! my whole problem was changing windows group!!
---   so if i can just boot to previous windows , then i can change the group and access the files...but
--- now i cant go out of recovery page,,,,, now that it is "active partition" everytime i turn on computer is JUST goes to recovery page screen (which is inactive),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
--- how can i roll back, or inactive the recovery partition and use my drive "C" previous partition as the only active one
I dont have recovery CD (I will get it tomorrow, i ordered it by HP, 30 bucks! phewww),,,,,,,,,
i am panicked any help would be deeply appreciated.........................................................
HP Pavillion DV-7 4069
Windows 7 Home Premium

Hi,
If you don't already have one, use another PC to create a Windows 7 Recovery CD. Download the relevant ISO from the links below.
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64bit
You should use an application such as ImgBurn to burn the ISO to a CD. Once created, or if you already have this, insert the CD and restart to boot from it. Select the Repair option.
Select the 'Repair your Computer' option and follow Option 2 in the guide on the link below to run Start-up Repair – you may need to run this 2 or 3 times.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html
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How can i completely remove the recovery partition?

Hi, i own an HP notebook model Pavilion 15-e070sl and i want to know how i can remove the recovery partition. I just performed a clean install from my System Recovery DVDs and i don't need the recovery partition anymore (since i got those DVDs), so i decided to delete it from the HP Recovery app; now the data has been deleted but i have a 17GB circa unallocated space on the disk, and i'd like to merge it with C to get some more space, but i don't know how to do it. I tried with thw windows disk management and i can't, i tried with easeus partition master but after moving those two little partitions before the unallocated space or even deleting them (see the pic http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6928/1lge.png) i can't expand C: to get rid of the unallocated space.
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Hi,
Assuming E: is the Recovery Partition. Please try:
Right-click Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management, then right-click the graphic of the E partition and select Delete. The partition returns to Unallocated for a Primary Partition or Free Space if it‘s a Logical Drive within an Extended Partition. Delete the partition if it is an Extended partition.
Now right-click the graphic of the C partition and select Extend.
Note: C and E must be sitting next to each other.
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BH
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Help me please I really messed up,I was messing around with my fathers MacBook Pro 5,4 Intel Core2Duo 2.5Ghz and I deleted the recovery partition aswel as anything else left on the drive,so now when it starts or turns on all I see is a folder with a Quest

Ive wipped everything off my Fathers MacBook Pro's drive, there's no recovery partition left nothing the model is a MacBook Pro 5,4 Intel Core2Duo 2.5Ghz
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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.
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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.

Windows 8.1 clean install in GPT hard drive style without loosing the RECOVERY partition

Always i try format my windows partition, i get the following error:
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style.
So i would like a clean install Windows 8.1 without chnage the hard drive style or loose my RECOVERY partition.
Obs.: I just can perform boot after disabling UEFI and Secure Boot.
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@lucasc ,
Hello and thank you for posting on the HP support forums. You will not be able to do this without damaging the recovery partition. If you want to do a fresh install on your system use the system recovery.
If not you will install the operating system of your choice. Before doing so make sure the notebook came with the operating system and you have supported drivers for the OS you want to install.
If not you may not be able to find supported drivers and end up with hardware issues. The drivers are built for the notebook based on the OS that it was released with and they are proprietary.
I hope this helps. Thank you again for posting and have a great day.
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How do I start a recovery directly from the recovery partition? Windows 8

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How do I get the Recovery partition onto a DVD set from my solid state drive?

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Thanks,
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txi wrote: My Pavilion dv6 has only a solid state drive. I need to recover and reuse the 23 gb currently partitioned for recovery. To do this I need to move the recovery files off the drive. Can this be done? Where do i find instructions on how to do it? Thanks, Bill Wright
Hello txi, Your best bet would be to use a hard drive image program and perform a complete hard drive image.
If you have Windows 7 on the SSD this would include the System partition, the C: partition and the D: Recovery partition.
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Just trying to copy the data from the Recovery partition would not be successful if you wanted to use this data later.
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Then if you need to revert back as the system was when the hard drive image was created, the D: partition would be put back on the SSD.
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The recovery partition could not be found

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(the operation failed to complete because the disk management console view is not up-to-date)
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Hi,
You can order a replacement set of Recovery Discs using the link below - once you get these, backup all your personal files etc to an external device and use the discs to reinstall the operating system; this will also re-create the Recovery Partiton.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00810334&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
If you have any problem with this link, order them directly from HP.
If you live in the US, contact HP Here.
If you are in another part of the world, start Here.
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