Try to use the recovery partition on my laptop

[rody]

Hello,

I have a laptop (compaq presario V6000) and my wife could not boot it
anymore. My wife went to the computershop and the people there told her we
had to re- install Windows again. So she did.

Then i came home and was not so happy with this advice.....On the hard disk
there is a partition called RECOVERY located on D:\.
Normally you can re-install Windows from this partition and it give's you
back youre original settings like when the notebook was new. Now i can not
choose to install from this partition because she reinstalled it from a
normal Windows XP cd from the neighbours............So the link to this
recovery in the boot menu is gone.

The recovery directory on D:\ is still there, but seems to bee empty. But
when i try to view the files with the good old ATTRIB -H *.* then it shows 4
file names:

desktop.ini
warning.bmp
protect.ed
folder.htt

But these files are hidden and i can not do anything with them. (copy or
what ever).

IS there anyone out here who can point me to a direction to solve my
problem? As you can guess i didn't make a recovery disk (as i should
have......)


Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Rody

 

[Malke]

Hello,

I have a laptop (compaq presario V6000) and my wife could not boot it
anymore. My wife went to the computershop and the people there told her we
had to re- install Windows again. So she did.

Then i came home and was not so happy with this advice.....On the hard
disk there is a partition called RECOVERY located on D:\.
Normally you can re-install Windows from this partition and it give's you
back youre original settings like when the notebook was new. Now i can not
choose to install from this partition because she reinstalled it from a
normal Windows XP cd from the neighbours............So the link to this
recovery in the boot menu is gone.

The recovery directory on D:\ is still there, but seems to bee empty. But
when i try to view the files with the good old ATTRIB -H *.* then it shows
4 file names:

desktop.ini
warning.bmp
protect.ed
folder.htt

But these files are hidden and i can not do anything with them. (copy or
what ever).

IS there anyone out here who can point me to a direction to solve my
problem? As you can guess i didn't make a recovery disk (as i should
have......)

Contact HP tech support and order the recovery disks. They are quite
inexpensive. Use them to return the computer to factory condition.

Malke

 

[rody]

Hi Malke,

Thanks for the quick response, but i would like to try to reinstall the path
in the bootmenu insteat off ordering a recovery disk

Is that not possible?

B.r,
Rody

 

[Malke]

Hi Malke,

Thanks for the quick response, but i would like to try to reinstall the
path in the bootmenu insteat off ordering a recovery disk

Is that not possible?

Generally no.

Malke