Hewlett Packard has made it convenient to recovery your original factory settings. We recommend you follow the instructions below if tyring to recover with the disks that came with your PC when you first opened the package.
If your HP computer did NOT come with disks, it’s quite possible the recovery files are on a hidden partition on the drive. In this case, you should follow the START menu to restore your PC to factory condition.
If you need help recovering your HP Vista machine, please join our free forums.
How To Start HP Recovery in Vista
When trying to recover an HP machine (in Vista or any other Operating System), always shut down the computer and disconnect any USB devices and remove any CDs, DVDs or floppies. Leave the keyboard and mouse connected.
Next, power up the computer and navigate to Start, All Programs, and then click PC Help and Tools. Click the Recovery Manager.
You will need to proceed through a few Windows before getting to the actual System Recovery option. Click Next, then on the “Software Program Re-installation” screen, click No. Click “No” on the “Hardware Re-installation” screen and then “No” on the “Microsoft Reinstallation Screen.”
You will then see the Recovery Manager screen. You will be asked if you want to do a factory system recovery. Click Yes and then Next. The PC will need to reboot itself to run the recovery.
Click through the Microsoft System Restore screen and you will get to the HP System Recovery screen. Click Next to begin. You may be asked if you want to backup any files. The System Recovery to factory defaults will then begin. All data will be lost, as the computer reformats the hard drive, so be sure you have any important data backed-up.
The PC will restart and the Vista HP System Recovery will be complete.
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So when my pc is booting up again, will my OS still be there, or do I have to install it again?
If the process completes successfully, the OS will be there and running like brand new.
My problem is i do have the recoverey disk. Tried to install it will take the first disk but the second stalls out at about 12 to 14% every time what am i doing wrong.
You’re probably not doing anything wrong. I would just make sure you do not have any USB deviced plugged in or any addition hardware attached with the computer that wasn’t part of the original configuration. It might be looking for drivers. If you need more help, please join our forums.
I have problems when it comes to the validation stage after the cd is burnt and i am unable to make a copy.
I have a computer that is 3 years old, the other day it would not allow me to get into any programs and now it will not allow me on what can I do to get this resolved.
Please help me ASAP
Need way more info to help you with your computer. You should join our forums at http://www.pctechbytes.net/forums/ and ask your question there.
The factory OS of my HP is Vista, but i don’t like it. so I have deleted C partitioning to install XP, and I keep the recover partition. the letter partition change also. C is recovery partition, and F is new OS. then I just found out it runs very slow, so i want to recovery to Vista. the problem is I cannot boot from recover partition. Please help.
hi ALL!! IS ANYBODY CAN HELP ME,I HAVE DELETED RECOVERY PARTITION ON MY HP LAPTOP,WICH IS WINDOWS VISTA,CAN NOT REINSTAL WINDOWS(((
Gday, I have a copy of windows 7 on a new hard drive in my box , but i previously had vista home premium and a recovery partition on the original hard drive.The original hard drive died in a big way, but i had made a set of hp recovery discs….Do you know if it is possible to use these discs to reinstall vista home premium back on my new drive on a 2nd partition? or do i risk losing my windows 7 partition??
The mind boggles!
I’m pretty sure you’ll lose Windows 7, sorry. There’s really no advantage of having Vista and 7 as they are pretty much the same, anyway. Was there an application that is not compatible with 7?
I have all of my files after the recovery… they’re in a file system recovery > D but how do I get the computer to use them?
Hi,
I installed two operating system one is Linux and Windows vista. now i deleted linux and unfortunately i formated my windows vista recovery file folder E drive. so i need all my data because all are very important and i need to recover my recovery file because there is no back file for windows vista. Now i m facing the problem is i m not able to open windows and just it showing while running in the begining it showing “GRUB_” the underscore just blinking can you pls give me suggestion how to recover the file and how open the windows vista operating system without failuring of my data’s.
Regards,
Prasanna D L