[NBLUG/talk] Recovery Partition ( Empty Partition

Mike Rice dolo724 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 16 17:46:06 PST 2010


have you tried [ctrl]+F11 after POST?

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----- Original Message ----
From: Howard <howardas at pacbell.net>
To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." 
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Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 12:49:09 PM
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Recovery Partition ( Empty Partition

  No, F11 doesn't work. Another idea is there a way to then maybe
image the partition, and see if I could then extract it??

Howard

On 12/14/2010 3:18 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:04:50 -0800 (PST), h.schnirman said:
>> This isn't necessarily about linux, but Linux is being used as the
>> repair tool. I've got an HP Pavilion Laptop that had it's OS corrupted
>> to the point that it doesn't boot. The recovery partition type says
>> Empty.
>>
>> So the Question is, Is it really empty or that HP has some proprietary
>> file system that I can't see. The partition is about 214mb. About the
>> size
>> to be expected of the recovery partition. Otherwise I'll have to tell my
>> friend that he needs to purchase DVD's from after market.
>>
>> HP is not making available XP Recovery disks any more, and the machine
>> is too old to run their newer hardware hogs I imagine.
>>
>> So if anyone could suggest a good Open Source to for investigating pretty
>> esoterics partition types I'd be very appreciative.
> Hi Howard,
>
> Holding the F11 key during power on didn't start the automatic HP
> recovery boot process?
>
> Friendly regards,
>
> Bob
>
>
>


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