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No "Repair Your Computer" in "Advanced Boot Options"!!

post #1 of 11
5/18/09 at 8:52am
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Hi,

A relative of mine gave me his & his wife's notebook so I could restore them to "Factory Settings". They both have the exact same Gateway notebooks. They didn't have any System Restore discs ... but they did have an Operating System disc containing Windows Vista.

When I boot into their notebook, I saw that both notebooks do have a "RECOVER D:" drive partition which I believe contain their system restore.

The manual says you press F8 during boot to get into Advanced Boot Options -- Which I did -- and then choose "Repair Your Computer" ... however, there is no "repair your computer" option in the Advanced Boot Options.

So how do I restore these notebooks to Factory State using the Recovery D: partition? Is there any other way?

Thanks.
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post #2 of 11
5/18/09 at 9:38am
You need that vista CD to copy the files. You could try to do a system restore in windows if there is a problem with the notebook.
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post #3 of 11
5/18/09 at 9:52am
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
You need that vista CD to copy the files. You could try to do a system restore in windows if there is a problem with the notebook.
Well I just want to return the notebook to Factory State ... a full system factory restore. I do have the Vista Operating System CD that came with the notebook but that just installed the Vista Operating System ... it does not bring the notebook back to factory state.
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post #4 of 11
5/18/09 at 9:57am
Correct. You can visit your laptops vendor site to download the drivers. It's a bit more tedious, but it will get all your devices working.
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post #5 of 11
5/18/09 at 10:39am
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
Correct. You can visit your laptops vendor site to download the drivers. It's a bit more tedious, but it will get all your devices working.
That is an option I was going to explore. I'm a little disappointed though ... having the "RECOVERY" D: Drive partition in tact - that there is no way to do a full system restore using that partition. It's sitting there with over 11 Gig's of hard drive space ... and there is no way I can use it.

Thanks for your help though.
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post #6 of 11
5/18/09 at 5:11pm
If you can get a hold of a Recovery DVD from gateway, you can then launch the HDD recovery and put it back to factory default. However, once someone uses the Vista DVD it changes the boot options and you lose the repair option.

I would keep the recovery partition and if anyone ever has the recovery DVD, boot from the DVD, and then choose the option to recovery from the HDD. It will reboot and put it back just like it was from the factory.
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post #7 of 11
5/18/09 at 7:23pm
You might want to check on EBay as they oftentimes have recovery cd's for various models.
Either that or go to the Gateway site, they might have the recovery cd's for sale at a decent price.
http://support.gateway.com/s/SOFTWAR...GE01su44.shtml
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post #8 of 11
5/18/09 at 7:45pm
The disc that came with their notebook is an OEM copy of Windows. If you order recovery discs for that particular notebook from Gateway or any third party, you are going to get the exact same disc.

To restore the system from the recovery partition, boot up the notebook and hit Alt+F10 until it says "Windows is loading files." If the D: partition is complete, it will restore the system to factory settings, complete with drivers and software.
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post #9 of 11
5/18/09 at 9:39pm
I dont know for sure with Gateway, but with Toshiba and Acer, the recovery CD contains the appropriate drivers for that model as well.
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post #10 of 11
5/18/09 at 9:54pm
Back when Gateway supplied recovery discs with their computers, they didn't include drivers or software. These days, Gateways come with a utility to make a more complete set of recovery discs, but the computers do not come with any discs.
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post #11 of 11
5/19/09 at 8:14am
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Thanks for your posts guys ...

Most of you are correct; I would have to order a Recovery DVD from Gateway, for which they charge.

What I had to do was after installing the Windows Vista Operating System using the disc I had, I was able to recover "Gateway Recovery Center" from the RECOVERY D: Partition and install it. From within it, while the "Factory Recovery" button didn't work - for whatever reason - I was able to one-by-one install all the necessary Drivers.

So at this point I've got the notebook all set & working. It's not in it's Factory State, but quite honestly it's just missing factory pre-installed Software ... other then that it's working fine now.

Note to Alcyone ... I was also told about the ALT + F10 option ... but as someone also had stated here ... as soon as you install the OEM Operating System on the notebook, it wipes out all recovery options, even from the Boot menu, and replaced them with the standard Vista Boot options. The ALT + F10 did nothing but bring the BIOS Boot menu which only gives you choices for selecting Boot Device.

In all, once you install the OEM Operating System, you have very little options, next to none, for bringing it back to Factory State. However, you can get it all working with all the drivers installed.

Thanks.
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