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| Thread ID: 123868 | 2012-03-21 19:27:00 | Virus or Corrupt Softwrae ? | Nhashon (16466) | Press F1 |
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| 1266244 | 2012-03-22 01:10:00 | ok but my c is the one that is corrupted right know , im going to use D drive , so i dont have a backup ,shall i still do it . | Nhashon (16466) | ||
| 1266245 | 2012-03-22 01:14:00 | If D has the restore partition, if its got an ISO on it, you'll have to burn it, if youre going to install windows on D. Otherwise, you'll have to buy a version of windows. Since you wont have a version of windows to install. If you reinstall windows (back on C), it may fix the corruption. Altho, this may depend on why it became corrupt in the first place | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1266246 | 2012-03-22 02:50:00 | FYI ------ Being windows 7 it will have .WIM files and associated folders/files ,not ISO - they went out with Vista. You can reinstall from the .wim file, but its not a simple task of click this, click that, you would need to boot from a CD (generally win PE) that contains various programs, including Imagex.exe then the image needs to be applied via commands. A recovery partition contains all the necessary applications to run a restore unattended, once you agree to all the guff about over writing, deleting etc. |
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| 1266247 | 2012-03-22 03:33:00 | bad luck i tried F11 on my HP Pavillion , it says to install a ios , so looks like havent got a IOS | Nhashon (16466) | ||
| 1266248 | 2012-03-22 03:53:00 | Not always - the recovery may be there but not accessible, or as previously mentioned, corrupted. Right click on the D drive / Properties, how much is used ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1266249 | 2012-03-22 04:06:00 | it's 0 bytes |
Nhashon (16466) | ||
| 1266250 | 2012-03-22 04:16:00 | Oh Dear -- Is it labeled Recovery ?? Looking at a Vista Laptop here the recovery partition is labeled HP_RECOVERY (D: ) Have you tried opening the D drive to see its contents,if its empty then what comes to mind is its either not a recovery partiton or someone / something has deleted the contents. If you try to open the D partition and you get a message saying you dont have permission or its locked then it still may be there. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1266251 | 2012-03-22 04:25:00 | Hey wainui tech it says now do u want to format it before u use it shalll i procees | Nhashon (16466) | ||
| 1266252 | 2012-03-22 04:42:00 | At the moment I wouldn't. "if" theres any thing on the drive by formatting it it will be lost. If its showing as unformatted it may have gotten corrupted somehow, or it possible theres a actual drive problem. By formatting the drive it currently wont achieve anything, you still wont be able to reinstall windows. Normally in a case like this if I had the Laptop here, I would boot the computer from a Live Ubuntu (linux) CD and examine the partition to see it shows anything. Looks like you possibly may have to get hold of a windows 7 DVD and install from fresh using the COA ( Product key) that should be on the bottom of the laptop.Then download the drivers from HP and install them. While they will be on the C drive, I wouldn't trust them to be good, esp if theres corruption or possible infections about. Just a thought, nothing to lose - click start, look through all programs, look for HP recovery options, sometimes theres a option to make install DVD's from the recovery partition, but I wouldn't go getting hopes up if its been corrupted. |
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