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Recovery Partition

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  1. nascar895

    Partition lost during ubuntu installation

    I tried to install ubuntu and then try to partition on the above screen. I select my 1.7TB partition and click on (+) sign and created the new partition. after the installation my 1.7tb partition was missing. But my windows installation partition was ok even though it is on a same drive. I tried...
  2. M

    Removing partitions wise choice?

    So im trying to upgrade to Windows 10 my mini laptop has an eMMC of 32GB i formatted my primary partition and i got 18GB in total out of it. I saw that Drive 1 Partition 4: Image (Recovery Partition), takes 10GB in total and is only using 66 mb It says 944.0MB of free space. Can i format and...
  3. F

    Recovery Disc doesn't recover Windows 7 on ASUS Laptop

    Hello, I have a problem with my ASUS Laptop model K55DR. When I bought it I made recovery discs, and now my Windows has problem with starting and is very slow. So i decided to recover Windows 7 to factory settings using Recovery Partition on my HDD, but when i pressed the F9 button, nothing...
  4. T

    Unable to use the Recovery partition to recover the OEM OS

    Hello, Hello, I've recently been asked to get rid of a Windows 8.1 on a new laptop (HP Pavilion), and install Windows 7 instead because they wanted it that way. Which i did alright. However, the wifi card (and some USB ports) isn't working because there is no driver for the wifi card, i...
  5. E

    Need help upgrading my Laptop to Windows 10 (more complicated than it sounds :( )

    Okay, so I'l explain everything just to help you understand: .My mum bought herself a new laptop, an ASUS Eeebook E402MA .She likes it but hates windows 8, a free upgrade is available so I said id upgrade it to 10 for her .The laptop has a 32gb eMMC so I thought an upgrade would be easy as...
  6. G

    Sony Vaio E14P Recovery Partition Deleted, Can not install windows.

    Long story short my main pc is held up right now (issues with a part, dealing with manufacture on component) So I was looking on a local for sale site and purchased a Sony Vaio laptop that the person stated in the ad they can not install windows after deleting the Sony recovery Partition...
  7. ClownWalker

    Accidently formatted and deleted the recovery partition.

    Hello, my laptop had some problems : freezing, not launching apps, startup repair not fixing anything. So I decided to reinstall Windows 7 though a USB, like I always do with my PC. Everything went fine until midway through the installation process. I first got the error 0x80FE0000 telling me...
  8. M

    How To: Load a Recovery Drive's Factory.Wim image - Question

    Does anyone here have any experience using a PCs Factory.wim image (located in the recovery partition) to restore a laptop to factory defaults? Let me know :??: Michael
  9. S

    WipeDisk ASUS K52

    process deleted recovery partition. Now boots to Enter Password for HDD. Will not boot with Recovery CD. Will replacing hard drive get me use of laptop again? Thanks!
  10. D

    No Boot Device - 1TB Drive - Not a crash...

    Hello all, A few months back I got hit with the perfect data nightmare. Long story short - my backups are gone and the only copy of things I want are on a 1TB sata HDD. It was below 10% free space, my screen on the laptop went out - so instead of connecting to a monitor I pulled the drive and...
  11. PrfJennings

    Lenovo U430 boot error, is my HDD dead?

    Hello! My Lenovo U430 is giving me some weird issues. When it boots it would shortly turn off after 4 seconds, after backing it up and using the recovery button on the side to boot into the recovery partition I was able to boot again and install several updates and reboot it. After I turned it...
  12. M

    Windows tablet format without recovery partition

    Hello everyone. I have one windows tablet with 8.1. I tried to formated with wondows 10 but failled when i dont find drivers for my tablet and nothing works correctly. I tried to recovery with system recovery partition but not boot. I tried to do it active with diskpart and no work. And i decide...
  13. vn_mnm

    Please help converting unallocated disk space into Recovery Partition

    Hi everyone, Yesterday, I tried to be a lab rat and bit the M$FT deal to upgrade my Dell XPS 13 2015 from Windows 8.1 Home to Windows 10 Home. I would say I was extremely disappointed. But more problematic was, as I tried to factory reset it to Windows 8.1 using Dell's factory image, when the...
  14. J

    Copying the recovery partition form old HDD connected via USB

    Hi guys, i have a problem. My hard disk started failing and I decided it was time to upgrade to an SSD. Since the old HDD has gotten very slow, cloning the drive takes 862 hours. So i decided to not clone it and do a fresh windows install. But somehow my Asus redovery dvd i bought from the Asus...
  15. Maurdekye

    Yoga 3 Pro Freezes Constantly

    I've had my Yoga 3 Pro for about a year now, and so far it's served me incredibly well. Just recently however, it began freezing randomly during use for no discernable reason. The screen would lock up, any sounds playing would either stop or repeat indefinitely, and I would end up having to...
  16. D

    Removing the Recovery Partition a Windows tablet

    I have a 16gb Windows 8 tablet and I would like to remove the recovery partition to save space (as you know 16gb on windows is impossibly difficult to manage) I have followed all other help that I can find online which usually relates to creating a windows recovery USB using the built in...
  17. ReinhardtU

    How can I get Lenovo recovery partition back on drive.

    Hi, I was cloning my old 240GB SSD to my new 250GB SSD but found afterwards that Windows couldn't see the Lenovo recovery partition anymore and remembered then that I had the same issue long ago when I replaced the 500GB HDD which it came with the first time to an SSD. This time though after...
  18. A

    Still have the big recovery partition, just not the small (first) one. How to use?

    I have a Packard Bell Easynote ENTF71BM here which I was supposed to fix. I figured a fresh reinstall of Windows 8.1 without crapware could be sweet, and I was nice enough (not my laptop) to keep the recovery partition, just in case. But I deleted the first few partitions on disk, the small...
  19. G

    acer 5315 no recovery partition

    need to restore acer aspire 5315 to factory default sold old hard drive as upgraded to 500gb but forgot to do a factory restore backup disc any help on finding a torrent or where to buy disc acer problematic doesnt have buy a 5315 recovery disc option on website
  20. J

    I recently reset my Acer computer to factory settings, thinking it would wipe Windows 10 off and re-install Windows 8. I delet

    I recently reset my Acer computer to factory settings, thinking it would wipe Windows 10 off and re-install Windows 8. I deleted the partition drives, which I believe to be a mistake. i made a recovery media, but at the time that Windows 10 TP was installed. Now I just want to be able to use the...