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Re: How to burn HP Recovery Disc without using Recovery Manager?
you can restore the MBR, the procedure is given below and then use the
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F11 key to restore your system completely. After that you can burn your recovery discs.
This procedure will perform a destructive restore ( delete all data on the hard drive). So make sure you backup your data before starting out.
The recovery partition is visible as
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D:
after a clean install. It may be another drive letter on your system so make sure you change it to D: . Explore this recovery partition, the files may be hidden so you may need to go to
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Tools > Folder Options > View >
, select
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show hidden files and folders
, and uncheck
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Hide Extensions for known File types
and uncheck
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Hide protected operating system files ( Recommended )
. Then you must be able to view a folder named
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miniNT
and inside this folder
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System32
.
Make sure you have two files inside the D:\miniNT\System32 folder, the first one
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MBRInst.exe
and the second one
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MBR.ini
now go to
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Start > RUN >
type
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D:\miniNT\System32\MBRInst.exe /ini D:\miniNT\System32\MBR.ini /r /q
and hit enter.
restart your system, your system will boot into recovery mode & resotre your system completely, after which you can create your recovery disks.
hope this helps
regards
Last edited by cluelessME : 08-29-2007 at 04:16 AM.
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