Recover HP Compaq Laptops with just the hard drive recovery partition

Author: Clayton Olson
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This video will help you take your HP/Compaq laptop back to factory when you do not have recovery discs, but only the hard drive recovery partition to work from! If your original drive is fine, but windows has died on you then you won't have to buy a new drive. If your original drive is dieing and you are not able to boot into windows or fix windows, but you can copy the other partitions info to a new drive, then this video should be able to help you out as well. Links to applications used: GimageX - http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit-tools/gimagex/ Freecommander - http://www.freecommander.com/fc_downl_en.htm Note: There may be a chance that when you do finish the recovery and attempt to make your recovery media that the application says you can only make one copy and denies you the ability to make a set, you will need to search for a particular file in two locations if you are using an older HP/Compaq laptop. That file is HPCD.SYS. If you are using a newer laptop, (mine was made in 2010) then you will need to search for hpdcru.prc Quoted from napisr on youtube..... 1. Download Free Commander 2. Open D:\ Drive in Free Commander, assuming D is the recovery partition on your hp laptop computer 3. Find and Delete a file named HPCD.SYS in D:\ drive root folder . In newer HP systems, the fine name is hpdrcu.prc and its present in three locations. Search and delete hpdrcu.prc. 4. Navigate to the windows folder at C:\Windows\SMINST and delete another file with the same name HPCD.SYS 5. Thats it done you can now create new sets of recovery CDs or DVDs If you are looking for a way to recover a Toshiba laptop, check out this video.... http://youtu.be/NYQvTN77jEg

Comments

  1. Thank you for the video.. it helped me a lot..May u please tell - did u cloned the hard drive ex.system files, recovery partition to your new external hard drive, if so then what was in the drive named windows 7 x64(was it vaccant?)
    and how did u started the boot in new laptop(by another windows cd or the same hard drive)?
    please answer ......
  2. beautiful
  3. como se hace no entiendo mucho
  4. Good stuff bud I hope you're still monitoring this channel I might have a few questions but I think this is exactly what I'm looking for I was given a dead hp touch smart sleekbook with a bricked HDD most of the partitions were toast but the recovery was intacted bought the new 500 gig HDD but it's blank and hp is a real pain in the azz when it comes to getting operating systems or drivers so I'm hoping this works I'll let you know.
  5. impressive my friend, i had a notebook from neighborhood. and your tutorial helped me out great :))) he destroyed every partition except recovery. thnx a lot
  6. My problem with my Compaq cq57 is that it has the bsod reading unmountable boot volume all I did was do a disk check before this happened after it was done in didn't restart so I turned the laptop off now I'm in this mess no recovery options work and the recovery disk I purchased frezzes on the windows background screen even the recovery options frezzes and there is no option in bios for me to turn data into I'd I'm lost and I need help
  7. I'm 15 and I need to wipe clean my HP Compaq laptop because it's painstakingly slow; I have no Windows installation disc, no extra drives except System (C:) and Recovery (R:) and I can't create a system repair disc OR a system image. I'm losing my sanity in this strenuous process, please help me!
  8. I'm using a Windows 10 and I'm lost :(
  9. hey, i am hp pavilion dv6 user ... my problem is that i formatted original OS in my pc.... but i have recovery partition in my pc .....can i factory reset and get my original OS ? Please help me
  10. hey I need your help.. I have a HP omni 120 1134.. I happened to have reprogrammed the machine but now I'd like to go back to the factory settings. I have a HP recovery partition and tried your method but I have multiple .wim files in the preload folder so I'm stuck and don't know what to do.. please assist
  11. Hey Clayton,
    Weirdly I cannot find base.wim file in my pc. I have tried freecommander + searched the whole computer, but still i cannot locate base.wim. Can you help me out?
    Thanx
  12. +Gaming Moderer Logan Are you trying to restore your computer? You didn't really give enough info to be helped. Describe what you are trying to do in detail and I'll see if I'm able to help!
  13. I am using a Windows 8.1 and I don't know how to access "Computer Management." I would appreciate some help on that.
  14. What do you do if you want to restore the image to drive C:. Does not sound feasible to format drive C: and copy the image to it if you do not have windows on drive C: running to use GImageX to transfer the image. I'm other words what is the process to do this on the same drive, not a new one? Ghanks
  15. i tried the unchecked the hide protected operation system file my recovery drive dose not show anything...
  16. Thank you so much for this video!!

    I have struggled for over a week to get my Pavilion dv7 working again after the HDD died, and then it turns out to be this simple!
    I have tried everything with Ubuntu and ddrescue, testdisk, gparted, etc., to get it boot the recovery partition.
    However, it has not succeeded yet, as it now just writes "A disk read error occurred" when i press F11.
    I accidentally destroyed the "SYSTEM" partition on the old HDD, while transferring the partition to the new HDD, by typing the wrong partition name.

    But by doing what you say, I've finally got it booted as it used to, when using the recovery partition!

    Now i just have to wait for my new 500GB HDD to arrive, so i can start over, since the 120GB i used for testing isn't enough.
  17. My CQ50 is stuck on FINALIZING FILE RESTORE (loading screen) for hours. Overnight and still on that screen. Any ideas out there?

  18. Hi Leven, as long as the recovery partition hadn't been wiped out or tampered with at all, then my method would work for you! I put it works out! Please leave a message letting me and everyone else know how it goes!
  19. Hi, my HP is working very slowly currently. I have a partition named Recovery but since I re-installed a new OS on it before so HP recovery manager no longer works. Will this method work? Will all other partitions be wiped out if I use this method? (F11 doesn't work either). Thank you very much!! :)
  20. Hi Edward (Bonczak). I don't think there is a way to repair the recovery partition itself if it has errors. My video assumes that you have a functioning recovery partition, but no recovery USB, CD's, or DVD's. I wish I could give you a better answer than that, but unfortunately I cannot.