Hi,
I have an HP Pavillion 514C Computer that is having trouble with the HP Recovery CD Process. The Disks are original HP Recovery Disks.
I am at a total lost for words as to why the HP Recovery Disks do not work.
I get the message of ‘No operating system installed or a partition corrupted Press ‘R’ to perform a full system recovery’.
I press ‘R’ and then I get the message of ‘Preparing Recovery Partition – Please Wait’
It then shows a message of ‘Starting Recovery’ and then is followed by the message of ‘Starting HP PC System Recovery’.
After this the screen then goes on to display the HP Invent Logo in black and white. At this point then nothing happens. I even let it sat for a couple of hours to see if there is any response. I read on the Internet that the Recovery can take a couple of hours.
I have even gone as far as deleting all the partitions and then reformatting the hard drive but I still get the identical result.
I tried loading Windows 98 and it loads perfectly with no hitches. I even tried loading an Authentic XP disk and I get as far as the Windows Setup where it says that the ‘Setup is starting Windows’ and then it just freezes. In both cases, I reformatted the hard drive before each install.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what is happening? I tried just about every tip regarding HP Recovery Processes and nothing. Very frustrating.
Thanks in advance!!
regards,
Tom
