Unlocking recovery partition on HP

[M8RIX]

Greetings'
I believe that I have asked this quesion before but for the life of me I
can't find the answer again.

How do I remove the "lock" on the recovery partition on a HP PC so that I
can access and view the files therein? The partition is labeled drive D: and
it is formatted FAT32

Regards

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Greetings'
I believe that I have asked this quesion before but for the life of me I
can't find the answer again.

How do I remove the "lock" on the recovery partition on a HP PC so that I
can access and view the files therein? The partition is labeled drive D: and
it is formatted FAT32

Regards

- What makes you think it is locked?
- Did you assign a drive letter to it in diskmgmt.msc?

 

[M8RIX]

What makes you think it is locked?

Answer: This message is displayed when drive D: is clicked on:

Recovery Partition
WARNING!
This area of your hard disk (or partition) contains files used for your
system recovery.
Do not delete or alter these files.
Any change to this partition could prevent any recovery later.

- Did you assign a drive letter to it in diskmgmt.msc?

Answer: The partition is labeled drive D:. I did not label it in
diskmgmt.msc.
It was shipped to me that way.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I haven't seen this message before. Seeing that it says
"Do not delete or alter these files", I suspect that it's
alright to read or copy them.

What files are you trying to access?

 

[M8RIX]

This is the location of all of the system recovery files. Since this system
came without a set of discs to perform restore operations, all of the
restore files are contained within this partition. There is nothing else on
this drive/partition. It is normally accessed with use of the installed
recovery applications which are allowed access to the drive.

I have managed to gain access to the files and folders on the drive through
the command line with use of the attrib -h -r -s command/switches.
I would like to use the attrib command to "unlock" the D: drive but I cannot
remember how I did it on my other computer.

 

[Gordon]

This is the location of all of the system recovery files. Since this
system came without a set of discs to perform restore operations, all of
the restore files are contained within this partition. There is nothing
else on this drive/partition. It is normally accessed with use of the
installed recovery applications which are allowed access to the drive.

I have managed to gain access to the files and folders on the drive
through the command line with use of the attrib -h -r -s command/switches.
I would like to use the attrib command to "unlock" the D: drive but I
cannot remember how I did it on my other computer.

Can I ask why on earth you would want to do this?

 

[Bill Sharpe]

This is the location of all of the system recovery files. Since this system
came without a set of discs to perform restore operations, all of the
restore files are contained within this partition. There is nothing else on
this drive/partition. It is normally accessed with use of the installed
recovery applications which are allowed access to the drive.

I have managed to gain access to the files and folders on the drive through
the command line with use of the attrib -h -r -s command/switches.
I would like to use the attrib command to "unlock" the D: drive but I cannot
remember how I did it on my other computer.

HP supplies a tool to create a Recovery CD, after which you can use the
Recovery CD to delete the D: drive. The only reason I can see to perform
this deletion is if you need the disk space for something else. See
"creating a recovery tools CD" in HP Help and Support. HP strongly
suggests that you also make System Recovery disks(CD's or DVD's) if you
are planning to remove this drive.

Bill