Help, okay so i went wrong at the first hurdle, i got a DV2 1121 ea laptop with Vista HP... s the firts thing i did was to install my Win 7 HP Retail after a format of the C:/ thinking, theres a recover partition there, it surely wont matter if i dont create Vista HP recovery disc.
stupid i know.
do now i need to return it to Vista HP... except when i press F11 on boot it doesnt boot from the recovery partition. i faffed about with the Vista x86 iso and some tools that set boot things for me
i even made the D recover drive the active drive
but i cannot boot from the recovery partition.
i have re-installed Win Vista HP OEM from an iso now, but still cannot get into the F11 reocovery console to reboot from the partition/
So, is thee a fix, or am i borked to never be able to use my recover partition again?
pls help i am selling the netbook to someone and would like to give it them with a fighting chance of them being able to recover at some point in the future. Or if you can recommend a GOOD genuinely free ghost/clone i can clone the current install (wuth bespoke HP drivers for LAN/Wifi etc) onto a new partition so they can re install windows from there or something?!
help!
thanks
stupid i know.
do now i need to return it to Vista HP... except when i press F11 on boot it doesnt boot from the recovery partition. i faffed about with the Vista x86 iso and some tools that set boot things for me
i even made the D recover drive the active drive
but i cannot boot from the recovery partition.
i have re-installed Win Vista HP OEM from an iso now, but still cannot get into the F11 reocovery console to reboot from the partition/
So, is thee a fix, or am i borked to never be able to use my recover partition again?
pls help i am selling the netbook to someone and would like to give it them with a fighting chance of them being able to recover at some point in the future. Or if you can recommend a GOOD genuinely free ghost/clone i can clone the current install (wuth bespoke HP drivers for LAN/Wifi etc) onto a new partition so they can re install windows from there or something?!
help!
thanks