Recovery Partition

Evidently there is a hidden recovery partition on my MSI laptop which I assume will reinstall the original factory Vista OS back to new. Which I want to do because Im giving it to a friend. I just want to know if that is the best way to do it. I bought it new and they dont come with a recovery...

Hi Just got a hp g62-456tu notebook with win7 home premium 64 preinstalled. I would like some advise on how to retrieve a bootable dvd with just the win7 OS from the infernal recovery partition.

I have a Sony VAIO VGN-NR120E laptop computer that seems to still have its recovery partition intact. I believe this to be true because while performing a mock Windows XP installation the recovery partition was listed. Out of its total 7+ GB size less than 1GB was left. However, I cannot access...

Hello, My Acer is so slow it often out before opening something, I want to restore to its original settings, how can I do that?

I'm selling my old XPS M1710 and I'd like to make sure I wipe it clean of personal info. I would do a clean Windows install, but I don't have a recovery disk anymore. Is there any other reliable way to ensure I wipe it of personal data? It came from the factory with PCRestore installed on a...

Hello, i got new computer and trying to make recovery disk, 1st disk burn to 100% then trying to verify and stuck at 20%, try twice and happened same again..any help?

Good day: Just got my ASUS G73 Yesterday. As expected, it came loaded with Bloatwares. The computer did not ship with a windows 7 DVD and the only way to reset it back to factory default is to do it from the recovery partition which will install the Bloatwares if i do that. Can Anyone suggest...

what happen if i have accidentally deleted the hidden recovery partition??? is there any solution to get back the hidden recovery partition? what should i do? will i have problem when i want to format my hard drive? or can i get back my genuine win7 after format?? (i don't have the win7 disc...

Hello, Now installed windows 7 ultimate , but have received windows 7 home premium 64 bit OS. This OS having recovery partion without drive letter but now how to resore my original operating system. I dont have a os or driver DVD's.

I feel dumb for asking this question, but I'm confused about the recovery partition on my Asus P50 laptop. I know what a partition is, but I'm not quite understanding a few things. My assumption was that there would be a c: and d:, one of the drives would contain the recovery files, other would...

I want to upgrade my HD from a 160GB to a higher capacity. How do I ensure that the Recovery Partition appears on my new drive..??

Hello, sufferers of Windows and other %^&*( Though the question had been asked before in a similar way I want to bring the subject up again. I bought a refurbished Gateway notebook which works quite OK though it runs hotter than I like. Now I try to make recovery discs but I cannot spot any...

Gateway Ml3109 Laptop - Vista I know it has it because I was just going to reinstall the operating system and saw it there. When I boot it only gives me 3 options: Boot menu F2 Bios settings F10 PXE Boot F12 I can't do anything in the bios but select the boot device not the partition. Boot...

I bought a Vaio NW series and I for my own good I burned recovery DVDs... After that I tried to locate the hidden recovery partition by system managment... that I saw was that the partition space is 12Gb but the free space in this partision is also 12gb... Is this usual? It is possible after...

Acer Aspire 4315 / Windows Vista Home Basic Attempting Factory Restore via Hidden PQservice Partition Hard drive (C) prev formatted and Vista Reinstalled (somehow) but now corrupt due to Viruses / Addware / Spyware PQservice Partition still present and in tact. Have exhausted every...

I'm having some trouble with a notebook. It's a Compaq V6305NR. When I boot the computer, it POSTs, then immediately comes up with "Operating System Not Found." It also won't boot into the built-in recovery partition. I removed the hard drive and plugged it in to my desktop. The Windows folders...

Hi, I recently purchased a Thinkpad W500 and it came with Windows XP SP2 on the recovery partition. My restore disc and the current operating system on the machine is Vista Business 32. I was wandering if it is possible to update the OS on the service partition to Vista Business?