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Recovery Partition

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    Toshiba Satelite C850 recovery

    Hi Guys. My Toshiba Satelite HDD crashed as in the Laptop is not detecting the disk at all so recovery partition is not accessible. The recovery disk I made seems to have been damaged as it fails during bootup. Any idea of how I can recover my system?
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    Recovery from partition

    I have the recovery partition but no disks, doing this for a friend, pain in the $@#&*&, gimme a home brew computer any day, is there any way to create these disks from the partition without the software ?
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    Re-install osx recovery (and OSX)

    Hi, i wiped my ssd clean a few months ago and installed Windows 10. I want to use OSX now, but since my OSX recovery partition is gone i can't re-install it. Help plz!!!
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    Lenovo Thinkpad came with absurd partitions, thinking about reinstalling. Laptop newb questions.

    Purchased Lenovo Thinkpad E450 with 128gb SSD. It arrives with about 68gb of free space because Lenovo has created 5 partitions -- the usual 1gb recovery partition, a 260 mb efi system partition, a 15.51gb additional recovery partition (which is empty), and a 7gb "OEM" partition (also empty)...
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    Acer Aspire Switch 10 SW5-012 Refuses to boot anything but Windows recovery.

    So, I deleted my recovery partition to try to reclaim some of the tiny hard drive on this thing, without reading into it (Stupid, I know) and I ended up bricking the windows install. So I thought, "Oh well, who cares I'll install linux.", and I followed one of the guides. Now, here comes the...
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    No recovery partition to do a complete system restore

    Hello, Because I had my laptop repaired, it was not until recently that II realized that my system recovery files were no longer present. I had tried the "Copy recovery partition to usb" option when creating a system restore to a usb, but the option was unavailable. When trying to conduct a...
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    Does Sony Vaio factory restore delete storage partition?

    Hello, I used Partition Wizzard to shrink original partition (where windows is installed) to create new partition for data storage. My question is, will Sony Vaio factory restore wipe storage partition too or it will remain unharm (unwiped) ?
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    Having trouble booting from recovery partitions? All cominations and methods failing? AN EASY SOLUTION

    Do you have corrupted partitions, and want to do a factory reinstall from your recovery partition, but are finding it nearly impossible to access it? I was having problems installing a fresh copy of windows even with a product key, and even with a few command prompt bypasses during installs...
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    Help with formatting new laptop

    Hey, First some background: I've bought a new laptop today (Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14 59426614, and upgraded the HDD to a SSD). This is my first laptop (I always preferred desktop computers and only bought this for studying) so I don't really understand about laptops. I tried bringing it to working...
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    How to Create a Recovery Partition in OS X

    A computer’s operating system is stored on the computer’s hard drive and is essential in order for the computer to function. Mac users know (or should anyway) that having a backup is a smart idea in case of trouble. That is where a recovery partition comes in. A recovery partition is essentially...
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    Create a Recovery Disk for Lenovo Windows 8 Laptop

    If you ever find yourself in a situation where your Lenovo laptop’s operating system is compromised or damaged, you can probably recover it just by restoring the PC to factory settings. It is wise to create a recovery disk to do this, so you can restore your laptop from a USB drive even if you...
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    Removing recovery partition from SSD

    I own a HP 14-074ca Ultrabook which I recently learned has a 28GB mSATA SSD as well as the advertised 1TB HDD (I assumed it should have a hidden SSD being an Ultrabook.,), but the SSD is used as a recovery partition instead as a swap drive. My question is: "Is it feasible to partition the 1TB...
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    Samsung NP540U3C partitioning problems

    Hello! I just bought a Samsung notebook with preinstalled partitions, but I couldn't install a clean Windows 8 on those partitions, so I thought that deleting them would solve the problem...but it didn't. Every time I am trying to install the Windows again, after the first restart request I get...
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    Asus XC550CA Clean Install of Win8.1

    My Notebook came with Win8 pre-installed. Without waiting to do a backup, I immediately updated it to 8.1. That altered the location of the recovery partition, so I can't now reset the system. Asus want me to send it back to restore the original system, but I would like to buy a new full version...
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    Recovery Partition Lost/doesn't appear

    Good afternoon. I bought a new Toshiba L55-A5284, and I didn't create the recovery disk.Trying to partitionate my HDD, I had problems with that, and after this, my Recovery Partition doesn't appear. I have installed Windows 7 on my laptop, to keep using it. I would like to know if there is yet a...
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    acronis true image recovery partition??

    hi i want to know if anyone has experience with Acronis True Image. I would like to make a backup of my system. I have a ssd and a hdd, so my question is can true the image figure out how to put all things in their own drives or will it leave it all on one drive. can not find any answers on google
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    Gateway laptop recovery partition help

    Hello, I am helping a friend with her laptop gateway T68 something and her C drive was corrupted. I was able to copy her personal data from the C drive onto another hard drive as well as copy the backup partition. After formatting the old hard drive and repartitioning it, I copied the recovery...
  18. RepoDraghon

    Windows 7 Gateway Laptop Recovery partition not showing up as a drive letter and wont hold a system recovery

    Windows 7 Gateway Laptop Recovery partition not showing up as a drive letter and wont hold any system recovery points. This is the 4th time I have had to restart from Factory Default and it still wont save a system restore point. Please help....
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    Asus laptop recovery trouble

    So i have an Asus N53SN laptop running windows 7 that just decided to crap out on me yesterday. So i decided to use the recovery partition and restore to factory settings. all went well and the computer was restored and i went through the process of setting up my laptop like a new computer...
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    I want to format my laptop

    Hello, I want to reinstall Windows on my ASUS N56VZ without the pre-installed applications of ASUS. Can I format the drive "C:\" in my laptop and install a new Windows without affecting the Recovery Partition? Which I can restore my laptop to its original factory settings in the future.