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by ron731

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I have an HP Pavillion 533W. It had the recovery program on a partition of the hard drive. I need to do a system recovery. The problem is the current windows xp is not the original. So the hp pavillion tools options are gone. When I hit F10 at startup, it just continues normal startup. Does anyone know a way that I can start the system recovery with out having to order the actual recovery disks?

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by older mycroft

If it is still there you should be able to access it.

Sometimes, the key sequence to start recovery is MORE THAN a single F-key. Try Fn + F10 or similar combinations.

If you know the Recovery Partition has been removed, there is no option left but to get actual disks.

Have you tried using the System Restore option, rather than a re-install?

by jc2it

My experience is that the system recovery partitions are activated shortly after the BIOS but before Windows Boots. If you did a reinstall of XP you may have blown out the recovery partition.

If the partition is still there then you may be ok, but the recovery still may not work on the version of XP that is loaded.

If I was trying to fix this I would go a different route altogether. I would borrow a CD set from friends and use the Key that is glued to the side of my case to do a re-install.

If I had data I needed to save, I would copy that to a thumbdrive with a CD bootable Linux distro like Knoppix.

http://www.knoppix.org/

BTW for some reason I was thinking that F12 was what you used to access the recovery partition. You might try that. Maybe F12 is for Dells.

by downrighttired

Why exactly are you wanting to run system restore? Do you still have the XP CD that you currently have installed?

by jhparizona

If the recovery partition still exists, you can boot a cd such as BartPE or some other cd that contains diskpart. You can try MS-Dos fdisk to do the same thing but it normally only allows you to set the first partition as bootable.

Once you changed the boot partition to the Recovery partition, reboot and the HP recovery screen should appear.

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