Recovery Partition

I have a Toshiba Satellite A305-S6857. The model number is PSAG0U-02701V. My OS is Windows Vista 64bit Service Pack 2. I was on the Toshiba Forums and asked if I had a recovery partition on my hard drive because I was trying to reset it back to factory settings. I was told that I have no...

I did something wrong on my Asus laptop with uefi boot. Now it does boot from the efi partition, but stops there. With the Windows 8 recovery cd (downloaded on a other computer from the Microsoft website) I manage to reach CMD prompt of the Windows recovery CD. From there i can start DiskPart...

Hey, I'm fixing an ASUS Eee PC 900SD netbook for someone, and XP needs to be reinstalled. Already wiped the drive, and the recovery partition was gone when I got it. When running a (legit) XP Iso off of my USB flash drive, I get a message saying "hat.dll is missing or corrupt". Not sure what is...

I have had my ultrabook as a dual boot, windows 8 upgraded from windows 7 and Linux on another partition, I deleted the partion to remove Linux, but every time I turn my ultrabook on it asks me to say what os I want to use, only windows 8 is listed. I am wanting to restore my laptop, but when I...

Hello all. I'm just wondering what I can do with regards to restoring from a recovery partition. I formatted my Vaio notebook a while back, and it essentially became stock Windows 7 with no 'Sony' applications and such. However, my hard drive only has 452 GB space available - and after...

I am trying to re-install windows. I tried from the recovery partition and the keyboard stopped working. I tried a windows 7 boot cd. All went well with the keyboard working up until I needed to type a name in for the computer. It just froze.

I just got a 120GB SSD and would like to know if I can transfer the D:/ Recovery partition that is on my OEM HDD to the SSD using an external HDD so as to boot to it when I install the new drive. I have an HP desktop with Win7x64 Hm Prem. Also I made a system image/backup on the external HDD and...

Hello, I am trying to fix a a Toshiba Satellite Laptop. It was Dropped and the hard drive had to be replaced I was able to copy the recovery partition from the hard drive. I want to now create dvd's to use the recovery so I can put the computer back as if straight out of box condition. Can...

Hello, I am trying to fix a a Toshiba Satellite Laptop. It was Dropped and the hard drive had to be replaced I was able to copy the recovery partition from the hard drive. I want to now create dvd's to use the recovery so I can put the computer back as if straight out of box condition. Can...

Well, obviously when i first got my laptop, the first thing i did after having a quick mess about with it was to completely format the drive and re-install windows. But there was 1 single prgram that came with the laptop that i cant find anywhere.....Looked all over the net, check the asus...

Hello, I Have a gateway nv55c with a recovery partition the os was win 7 home the onlydisk i had was 7 pro and it worked for 30 days and now the key does not work because it is pro. i cannot access the original recovery partition, i tried tapping f-11, f-10, left alt + f-10, in bios it has D2D...

Hi, Does anyone know how to extrat the original drivers from the recovery partition on an Acer One netbook and save them? I want to re-partition an Aspire one D260 and install Win7 Ultimate retail. (I have other backup methods.) However, from what I've read, some of the drivers on Acer's...

I no longer have the recovery partition that came on my ASUS eeepc 1015PEM. There's no DVD drive. How can I reformat the entire hard drive, wipe out the partitioning and reinstall Windows 7 from USB port?

Hello, i have toshiba l505 es-5018 i formated the recovery partition by mistake and now i want to restore my laptop to its orginial state can any one help me

I have a sony vaio vpcs131fm. I was booting it with bt5 but recently wanted to just go back to the computers factory settings and start all over again. Some where with the grub loader or the bt5 installation my vaio recovery options stopped working. I have tried the F1o option when i turn on the...

I have a Gateway MD2614U, the keystroke for mine is ALT-F10. Noah

My new Asus U56E has a utility to create recovery DVDs. When I launch it, it responds with "Recovery partition does not exist." In disk manager I can see this partition & in "computer" I can see the drive & the files in it. Windows boot manager (F9) at boot does not show the option of Windows...

Hello, Please note that I am NOT talking about the long Windows boot times encountered because of malware, registry problems, etc. This is even before the initial BIOS screen comes up. An friend of mine had some problems with his Toshiba Satellite A305-S6905 laptop and took it to someone who...

hi all 1- Ifound the recovery partition has 10 gb and its free is that a problem ? 2- how the create recovery disc works if it take a copy from my c partition and baste it on recovery partition or in the 3 cd's 3- how it work after the laptop damage when i recover c: drive . thanks

I want to use Windows 7's Backup and Restore functionality to create a backup system image which backs up ALL partitions on my computer. Currently I have 4 partitions on my system (with their specifics given as well, which were taken from Disk Management). They appear in this order in Disk...