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| Thread ID: 117515 | 2011-04-22 05:57:00 | Win XP recovery | jupiter1 (2578) | Press F1 |
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| 1196387 | 2011-04-22 05:57:00 | A friend of mine has recently trashed her operating sys and needs to do a recovery. She was not supplied with a source disk when she bought her HP Pavilion 521A. As only 33 gig is available on a 40 gig HDD I assume that there is a hidden partition with the recovery source on it. Does anyone know what the "secret" key combination is to do this please. I've tried all the obvious ones to no avail. Cheers...... |
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| 1196388 | 2011-04-22 05:58:00 | Its hidden. Show all files and system / OS files. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1196389 | 2011-04-22 06:22:00 | Its hidden. Show all files and system / OS files. Hi Speedy, sorry, not sure what the above means, "show all files & system o/s System o?s is (was) WinXP home edition. Can't show much of anything, it won't boot. My daughter had a similar problem with her toshiba, we had to hold down the 0 (zero) key at power up to recover her machine. I was wondering if there is something similar with these HP's. |
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| 1196390 | 2011-04-22 06:25:00 | Connect it to a working system. Might be F10 / F11/ F12 / F2. Should say on the post screen | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1196391 | 2011-04-22 06:56:00 | Thanks Speedy, can't do much now until Sunday. Will re-post after that. Cheers |
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| 1196392 | 2011-04-22 07:59:00 | HP's are normally F10 | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1196393 | 2011-04-23 01:55:00 | You may also access HP Recovery Manager at any time by restarting the computer and pressing F11 repeatedly before the Windows load screen appears. On the System Recovery panel, click Next . PC Recovery will display "Backing up user data and settings." PC Recovery will begin recovering Windows XP and application files. PC Recovery will begin recovering user data and settings. |
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| 1196394 | 2011-04-24 08:51:00 | Connect it to a working system. Might be F10 / F11/ F12 / F2. Should say on the post screen Hi Speedy, No luck with any of the key combinations you gave, or wainuitech and pctech in their follow up posts. I think I may have used the wrong word (recovery) I probably should have said re-install. Apparently F2 takes the m/c to the safe mode of loading from which "restore" to an earlier know good check point can be activated. Unable to test this as op system (win xp) seems trashed thus needing a re-instal. Further ideas will be very welcome. Cheers, |
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| 1196395 | 2011-04-24 09:07:00 | F2 works for me when I service these critters. | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1196396 | 2011-04-24 09:21:00 | F2 works for me when I service these critters. Hi, F2 works for a RE-INSTALL of the op system ? |
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