How To Recover Basic - No Partition Or Original Recovery Discs
Jun 22, 2009
I have a PC i am trying to format and reinstall windows vista. Unfortunately my mate has lost his original recovery dvd I made him and has now got a corrupted/damaged recovery partition. After all the searching I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this. I want to format the hard drive and start from fresh as he has major Virus problems. I tried searching old threads but couldnt find anything like what I needed, I hope I am not repaeting a thread already. If so please point me in right direction. If it helps its a Acer 6252 travelmate.
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Jun 2, 2009
A customer asked if he created the recovery disc would he still have a complete working recovery partition. He is in fear of creating the disc then losing them.
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Jun 21, 2009
Friend of mine was "given" a free laptop when he bought his Mazda. It came with no discs or a recovery partition. He called and told me he was fiddling with something in settings
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Mar 23, 2008
i totally wiped out my hard drive INCLUDING THE OPERATING SYSTEM! do the discs have the necessary tools and programs to get EVERYTHING back? HOW?
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Apr 12, 2009
i found recovery disks i made.
also thinking of just going back to the way it came from the factory.
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Apr 13, 2009
There is a recovery disk (a disk image) you can make yourself by using TrueImage or some other such program. Then there are recovery disks that come with a new computer. Which are you talking about?" I'd like to state to Mr. Urban emphatically that I've had Acronis for years. I've helped on their forums. Many people can't recover with the disc Acronis makes.
When I'm trying to fix a Microsoft Windows Operating System, in Vista or any build of Windows 7, I prefer to use the tools that Microsoft has made rather than Acronis. I'm going to be blunt here. Microsoft pays their engineers far more than Acronis will ever dream of paying theirs and there is a damn good reason. Microsoft's engineers have considerably more education, training, imagination, and competence than Acronis' personnel, and frankly Acronis backups (the .tibs) and their Recovery Disc often results in failure............................
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Feb 4, 2009
I am not clear on this issue. When I purchased my HP computer, I created "recovery discs" using the software shipped with HP. It took 30 minutes and used 3 DVD+R discs. I am not clear on if I am covered or if I need to get Imgburn or some other program and create an ISO image. What is the difference? I think I know the answer but want to make sure. Also, if you create an ISO image, does this include your theme, drivers, settings, ect. Recovery discs would take you back to when you opened the box and plugged the computer in. What is the difference for an ISO image?
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Aug 28, 2008
I wondered if there is more - or + value to doing a restore prior to my sp1 download, I would like to make a recovery disc using brinks great tutorial. I only have my retail purchase computer created one time recovery discs.
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Oct 5, 2009
I recently acquired a Dell Studio XPS 435 desktop with Vista Ultimate as the OS. My plan is to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next couple of months or so. Therefore I won't need the Vista recovery partition on the hard drive. I am trying to eliminate it and add to the C: drive partition. Looking at my drive 0 in disk management I have from Right to left a C: partition 683Gb NTFS with the usual Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). Directly to the left is the Recovery or D: drive which is 15Gb NTFS marked Healthy (Primary Partition) and finally to the left is the last partition of 71Mb marked Healthy (EISA Configuration). No idea what that is. Right clicking in the Recovery partition gives several options including: format, shrink volume, extend volume, delete volume, mark volume as active, change drive letter and paths, as well as help.
My question is how to remove the recovery partition and then extend the C: partition. My first thought is to format the recovery partition, delete the volume and then right click the C: drive partition and extend it but I really need some advice so I don't screw up the whole disk. For instance I have no idea what if anything hapens to the drive letters.I think maybe what I am calling partitions are really volumes so you can see I am over my head here.
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Jun 2, 2009
4JHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> A customer asked if he created the recovery disc would he still have a complete working recovery partition. He is in fear of creating the disc then losing them.
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Jun 23, 2008
When Partition Magic 8 fixed my hard drive at start up, I found that one partition missing after Vista SP1 was bootstrapped. From within the Disk Management tool, the missing partition can be seen in the lower list(it is not listed in the upper list). Vista displayed an error when I right clicked the properties of the missing partition. I am very frustrated with Partition Magic for causing such disaster. Despite trying some softwares to recover the missing partition, the problem persists.
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Sep 12, 2008
When i try to do system recovery It says my partition is missing or something, so I called HP and im getting my recovery cd shipped to me. I found this program called PTDD Partition Table Doctor 3.5 and also Recover My Files i was wondering if this could fix my partition b/c when I go to my computer i can see i have my c drive and my d drive and on my d drive is stays recovery??? any thoughts if these programs do what I need? the hp dude said that someone probably saved something onto it or something.........
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Feb 6, 2009
I am wondering if it is possible that I could create a new partition on my Vista home basic just for storage for pictures and document files mainly. If I could do this, would it help the speed of the computer? If so, how would I go about doing this? And, once stored in the new partition, would I be able to open them as normal? I already
use flash drives, etc for storage, but have run out of room on both of those, and just cant afford to buy more right now. I need to speed up this pc, and I know the vast number of pictures and documents and scans I have on here are probably the main culprit for slowing it down. (I do genealogy, and ebay- and have huge number of pictures relating to both, as well as text documents, .rtf files, .pdf files, .doc, etc).
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Sep 23, 2009
I want to create a recovery partition on my windows Vista laptop. Pretty much i want to be pompted when the pc boots to hit f10 and have a count down of 10 seconds. I know this would be done through boot.ini however i have no idea how to do so. Also id make a seperate partition on my hd of ten gigs just for the backup image.
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Aug 28, 2009
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite and it came with a Recovery CD that is supposed to wipe out everything and then reinstall Vista. I ran the CD, and it wiped out everything but didn't reintsall Vista - I got an error message saying: Error: Could not open WIM File F:5718XSP. swm. What can I do?? The laptop is empty now and I can't do anything at all with it.
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Apr 26, 2008
I need to boot into drive D, the HP recovery partition, so I can restore the HP laptop to it's original state, since it's all hopelessly messed up, but I installed EasyBCD and told it to "Reinstall the Vista bootloader". And now when I boot I no longer get the option to boot into drive D.
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Jan 14, 2009
I think I messed up my hard drive while trying to erase the EISA partition on it. It's a Gateway P7811-FX laptop with a single 200 GB hard drive. Before, I only had 1 main partition: the C: Drive (176.31 GB), along with the hidden 10 GB EISA partition. After making recovery disks, I followed this tutorial: Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life
Following that, I went in Disk Management. The hidden partition showed up, but I couldn't extend the C drive to use the unallocated 10 GB, so I converted it to a simple 10 GB volume. Then I used Acronis Disk Director Suite and merged the two partitions. And now, I can't do anything in Disk Management. There's only one partition now (186.31 GB), but when I right click on it, there's no options to create, shrink, delete, or extend the partition. They were there before, but the only option that shows up is Help.
Under Status, it says Healthy (Active, EISA Configuration). I think I merged the partitions the wrong way, so now there's no "System, Boot, Page File..." partition. Everything is on the EISA partition. When I try to run Acronis, the program doesn't load up. I've tried using Diskpart but I can't create any new partitions either.
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Jul 26, 2009
I've got a Hp computer that has Vista Home Premium 64 bit on it and I want to remove the partition D which is the recovery partition. I have factory backup dvd's, made my own backup dvd's and have a True Image of the drive with both partitions, so I think I'm covered. Anyone know how to go about removing the complete partition?
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Dec 31, 2008
My computer tells me that there is low disk space on my D:Recovery Drive. What and how can i safely remove, and will it improve my performance?
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Jul 29, 2009
is it possible to create a recovery partition in my vista which will be available in the boot menu? my laptop originaly came with XP so it doesn't have one for vista. I still have the 2Gb partition left from Xp but it's now empty after vista installation. and how much space do i need to resize it for that purpose? i'm also thinking of making another recovery partition for windows 7. so i will have 4 partitions: vista, vista recovery, windows 7, windows 7 recovery. i tried to look in the tutorial section but i didn't find any. i guess it's not common.
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Mar 22, 2009
1. Cheaper for the OEM
2. Users regularly delete it and consequently have to pay more money to
Micro$lut to get Windows working again. WPA and WGA serve the same purpose for Micro$lut.
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Apr 9, 2010
I'd like to reclaim the 10 plus Gb on my SSD that holds the recovery partition for Vista on my Toshiba A500 series laptop.
I've already backed up the system to DVD's using the Toshiba recovery disk creator utility.
Anyone know how to reclaim the 10Gb? I'd really like to do it without losing the operating system if possible.
Also, I'm wondering if I do this and things get screwed up will the recovery disks regenerate the recovery partition and take me back to the original state?
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Apr 23, 2010
I have a160GB external HD with three partitions. I took it out of a laptop (I was using it to run Windows on that laptop), formatted the 'main' partition (approx. 145GB), and installed Linux on it. The machine I was running Linux in is 'dead' now, so I want to format this 'main' partition again (in Windows), so I can use it for storage or whatever. The problem is that when I plug it into my machine running Vista, it 'sees' the 'recovery' partition (still there from when I was using it in the original laptop), but it doesn't 'see' that 'main' partition (the one I had Linux on). I went into Disk Management, and I can see all three partitions, but when I try to access that 'main' partition,it won't let me do anything with it. Right-clicking the partition brings up my options, but they're all grayed out. I realize that I can't open the partition in Windows, since it has Linux on it, but why can't I format it in Disk Management? I have no way to get into the Linux OS to try to uninstall or format it that way, since the machine is 'dead'.
How can I go ahead and format this partition?
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Sep 30, 2009
If I use truecrypt to encrypt an entiredrive will it affect the recovery partitions ability to function?
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Nov 10, 2009
i had company installed vista basic.. and a recovery partition of it.. now once i formatted vista and installed windows 7. for few problems i reverted back to vista. but now tht recovery image is not identified anymore.. is it like now its of no use?? can i do system image restore from recovery partition? i tried browsing and locating.. but no hope.. i will be glad if anyone knows or can tell me a way...
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Nov 4, 2008
I have a Compaq machine with HP software. My machine is running slow (it has a 2.5 rating) and four files come up missing when it boots. I would like to reinstall VISTA (or preferably XP if I can get a copy). I got the computer from a friend who does not remember what disks, if any, came with it. I have SP1 installed but I do not have a recovery disk or an original installation disk. How would I know if there was a installation or recovery disk? Would I likely get anywhere asking Compaq or HP for help?
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Dec 31, 2008
After having successfully created a set of system recovery discs which can be done only once on brand new HP Pavilion, can I delete the recovery partition to recover some space? Or is there any further use for it? And how do I find it?
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Mar 31, 2009
How much recover information is in the Presario's recovery partition, PRESARIO_RP? Is there enough to fully restore the OS or just the most vulnerable parts?
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Jul 29, 2009
I recently had to change my hard drive because the original one got bricked. I was wondering how to make the recovery drive that was on the original HDD.
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Aug 10, 2009
Dell recovery Partition D with factory image.wim copied in drive I
external hard drive. How can i restore my laptop to factory settings
from the factory image in drive I (external hard drive) instead of drive
D (internal Hard Drive)
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Feb 3, 2009
I installed 7 earlier and when I rebooted to go back to vista it said recovery partition not found, so I decided to log back into windows 7 and it was corrupt so I was like no big deal I will use recovery discs to log back in, nope it didn't work. I started this at 11am this morning 9 hours ago and I am back online but using windows 7. Vista kept getting stuck at not being able to find recovery partition and wouldn't get past it. I am using the recovery discs I create on my HP m9350f and I am stuck. Now my question is if I have an OEM version of Home Premium 64 bit can I reinstall vista when this beta expires? Can I install it as a dual boot with 7 being installed first and not loose anything when beta expires?
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