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HP Pavilion a1012x Recovery Problem - Windows XP
Shane:
I am not sure on that one, sometimes you can get to the recovery option by hitting the f12 or f9 (Cant remember which it was on HP) to bring up the boot menu. Normally they have a option to recover or test. That would be the place to try the restore from.
Shane
Boggin:
--- Quote from: backtolife on July 30, 2014, 02:40:15 pm ---Just one more note. I've been playing with the idea of trying to trigger the recovery process from the cloned hard drive. The recovery partition should have the original recovery files that came with the computer on it (not the recovery disks I purchased). I used the Mini XP application on the Hirens disk to access files on the recovery partition, found an application called restore, and double clicked on it. The expect HP restore program started. I'm at the point where I can just click the button and see if it will actually run the restore... shall I go ahead?
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Have you backed up all of the photos etc that your friend's wife wanted and are able to recover them, as you will lose all of those with a factory reset.
Shane:
--- Quote ---Have you backed up all of the photos etc that your friend's wife wanted and are able to recover them, as you will lose all of those with a factory reset.
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Thats why we cloned the drive. Old drive has all the data and is untouched. With the clone we can do what ever and worse case we clone it again and start over.
Shane
backtolife:
I can't get to it via the function keys Shane, F10 should but doesn't start the Recovery application. I'm thinking, if it doesn't work, I just need to re-clone the original drive and start again...
Boggin:
--- Quote from: Shane on July 30, 2014, 03:34:57 pm ---
--- Quote ---Have you backed up all of the photos etc that your friend's wife wanted and are able to recover them, as you will lose all of those with a factory reset.
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Thats why we cloned the drive. Old drive has all the data and is untouched. With the clone we can do what ever and worse case we clone it again and start over.
Shane
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I wasn't sure if individual files can be restored from the clone or if it was an all or nothing as the Windows system image is, but as there are two HDDs to play with then I would go for the factory reset - the idea was to get back into Windows somehow.
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