Comments on: HP Recovery

By: Jj

Jj — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:38:02 +0000

It doesnt even give those options like you mentioned up top.

By: Jj

Jj — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:34:33 +0000

I think the harddrive is completely formatted. I cannot get it to recover from the recovery cd’s either. Using f10 will bring me to the recovery screen as well, but it says something that the “recovery is still incomplete.” and it will go through that and ask for the cds. When it gets to that third disk it gives the error that C:\preload\base_12.inp is missing. It doesnt boot to anything. You start it up without anything and it says ntldr is missing.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:27:27 +0000

You may want to post on our forums…
But it sounds like there is a problem with the CDs themselves. Does the machine have a recovery partition? Sometimes you can just use that by tapping F10 at boot. Otherwise, maybe try an alternative OS like Unbuntu. Does it still boot to the virus-riddled OS?

By: Jj

Jj — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:36 +0000

Hi dave, my uncle had a hp pavillion a320n and he burned some recovery cds with it. Well it crashed from a virus and stuffed it down in the basement. Well I am trying to recover it and am unsuccessful. I put in the first recovery cd and it brings me to an hp pc system recovery blue screen with 4 icons on the left side that say 1:selecting recovery options, 2: hard disk preparation, 3: copying files, 4: finalizing recovery. Well when it went to this screen it asks if I want to recover so I chose ‘yes’ well it asks for cd # 3 so I put in the 3rd cd and it goes to copying files icon on the left and has a file copy window showing progress. Well it got stuck on 5% and the it says this: ‘C:\Preload\Base_12.INP This file cannot be recovered’ and it gives the option of abort or retry. When I retry it pops up with the same message and when I do abort it asks that the recovery is incomplete and it gives the option to continue recovery or restart. Well I go to ‘no’ to continue recovery and it goes about %10 more and then the same error with the C:\Preload\Base_12.INP. It does it multiple times and it just wont recover. What can I do about this? I just want it to be running fresh with xp since he gave me the hp (he replaced it with an emachines).

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:16:52 +0000

Thanks a lot for your advice Dave!
Will definitely give that decrapifier a try.
Also good to know I could always do a clean install in case I’m not satisfied by the result.