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by vincetraylor

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I have an HP Media center desktop that I have pretty much hosed. I would like to recover it using the recovery partition but it said that there was no master boot record. So I put in a win98 disk and set that partion to active. Now when it boots, it shows the hp recovery screen and then goes to a blue background with a cursor. I also have a windows XP home disc. Is there any way to use the tools on the XP home disc to recover my computer from the recovery partition?

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by stress junkie

Most computers sold by large computer manufacturers come with a recovery CD. If you didn't receive one or if you lost the one that came with your computer then go to the HP web site. They may have an ISO image of that machine's recovery CD that you can burn onto a CD.

by eazyvz

I have the exact same problem with an HP Pavilion Media Center a1223w. Recovery console goes as far as blue screen and stops there. Did you ever find a fix? If you did, please give up the answer. Im banging my head on the tower now.

by antony_17r

reinstall the hp Xp os, already my system in 2 partion. but after reinstall my system show one partion. how to show and slove the proplem for 2nd partion? Please help to me

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