I have a HP Pavilion a1340n PC that i bought about a year and a half ago. I'm haveing problems with it now and i just want to restore it back to its original state, I've done it before but for some reason I can't now. I tryed to install windows vista on a slave hdd and i think thats what caused my Recovery drive to get messedup. At boot the screen displays a option of (ESC Boot Menu) (F10 Recovery Console) and i press f10 repeatedly till it just starts to load regular windows, Before it used to load a recovery console. So i was wondering if this can be fixed to where i can recover my pc and fix everything. I had an idea of takeing all the recovery files and turning it into a bootable cd. Can someone please help me fix this problem?
with trying installing vista ye wiped out your d-recovery drive now ye have buy the recovery disks.. you could have made a copy link http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1818054&lang=en
But all the files are still in the recovery drive. Y cant i just make those into a bootable image to where it will run on startup from a cd? I was looking at it and it gave me a price of $16.00, but i dont know if thats just shiping or every thing together.
get another new hard drive for c-drive and use it with the recovery disks ye get... and do not wipe ye old hard drive set it up as a slave and then copy any files ye want..
ok well ill just buy that and see what happens. Im going to use and old hdd i got to put it on so i hope it works, It should. Thanks
