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Boggin:
Laptops these days tend to have a Recovery partition so don't come with install disks.
As any new laptop is likely to come win Win 8.1 these days unless you can root out one with Win 7, I only know of one 8.1 ISO download and that is for Win 8.1 Pro with a choice of 32 or 64 bit.
Not sure if MS provide ISOs for other 8.1 versions.
Also on a laptop there is provision for creating a one-off set of OEM disks which will be a copy of the Recovery partition.
jraju:
Hi,
Very interesting thread. Got to know more about those keys and all. But laptops are not sold with the dvd as Boggins rightly pointed out. The recovery partition is there, but how to use it to repair or kind of reset is very tough in laptops. Normally they have programs of recovery in their website. Recovery disc and how to create those discs and how to run are written in their website usually.
Hi boggins , the recovery disc, could it be opened normally to view and do some execution or could only be accessed thro initial boot screens in laptop?
Boggin:
--- Quote from: jraju on December 29, 2014, 05:02:17 am ---Hi,
Very interesting thread. Got to know more about those keys and all. But laptops are not sold with the dvd as Boggins rightly pointed out. The recovery partition is there, but how to use it to repair or kind of reset is very tough in laptops. Normally they have programs of recovery in their website. Recovery disc and how to create those discs and how to run are written in their website usually.
Hi boggins , the recovery disc, could it be opened normally to view and do some execution or could only be accessed thro initial boot screens in laptop?
--- End quote ---
The OEM Recovery disks (usually made up from 2) are bootable and will factory reset the computer when used.
I suppose you could open them in Windows but doubt that you could extract anything as you can with an install disk.
If you have a Recovery partition on your computer, open it up and you will see the same files as you will have on the disks.
jraju:
Hi, Boggins.
What would be the name of the file/folder. Could we see that. I found other software drivers in c:swsetup folder in laptop. That is where the original drivers are stored.
Boggin:
I'm not sure which file/folder you mean.
On my Toshiba laptop the recovery partition is in Drive D: where there are multiple files including a Setup Application which automates the whole process just as a driver installation is.
What you have in C: is unlikely to be related to the Recovery process as when using the OEM Recovery disks, you are booting up outside of Windows and when using the factory reset option in the computer, you need to boot up into the Advanced Boot options to select Repair your Computer which also takes you outside of Windows after the required reboot for it to effect.
This is because you can't repair/replace files while they are in use and is why a chkdsk /f or /r has to dismount the volume first before it can do its thing.
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