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post #21 of 23
1/29/09 at 6:03pm

Mark Partition Active

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Originally Posted by WeAreNotAlone View Post
Hiren's BootCD v8_1 may have a program that can fix the mbr.


Best option though is to CALL hp and tell them pressing F11 doesn't bring up the app, that you need to recover the machine.

I needed to restore the windows partition but pressing F11 didn't do anything. Luckily I could still boot into windows. With Vista I was able to go to Computer and right click, then Manage, Disk Management, and then I saw the hard drive with 2 partitions, click on the 2nd partition which was still there and then Mark as Active - then F11 worked for me and I was able to use HP recovery utility. This only works if you can still boot windows, but may be of use to others!
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post #22 of 23
4/7/09 at 1:56am

Another option...

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Originally Posted by aplus View Post
I needed to restore the windows partition but pressing F11 didn't do anything. Luckily I could still boot into windows. With Vista I was able to go to Computer and right click, then Manage, Disk Management, and then I saw the hard drive with 2 partitions, click on the 2nd partition which was still there and then Mark as Active - then F11 worked for me and I was able to use HP recovery utility. This only works if you can still boot windows, but may be of use to others!
If Windows doesn't work yet... you could boot the laptop using a Hiren's boot CD / Partition Magic. Inside the program you can change the active partition to the "recovery" one, and then boot from there and launch the restoration process... Hope it could be useful to somebody else...
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post #23 of 23
5/1/09 at 4:53am

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The recovery is possible you can check this software Stellar Phoenix Partition Recovery Software, may be it will help you as this software recovers file system corruption, hard drive volume deletion or corruption, disk formatting, operating system corruption, partition recovery, erroneous file deletion and virus infection.
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