Re: Need assistance to save the HP factory partition

On 12/28/09, Immortal posted:
> Hi Everyone,
> I had a HP PC running windows vista home basic, it crashed and was not
> able to boot in vista. Startup repair or safe mode did not work, so
> inorder to save data I installed vista business on top of it. The data
> is recovered and now when I try to boot to the factory restore it does
> not work, noticed in msconfig under boot.ini tab there is no boot
> record to the factory restore partition.

> Is there a way I can add in the record so that If I press F11 my PC
> will boot into the factory restore partition?

Isn't the boot to the factory restore controlled by a keypress at POST
time?

POST = Power On Self Test, that is, the time when it's in the BIOS;
it's the time when you see the HP logo and the message to press F2 or
whatever. You need to press the proper key at that time to get into the
recovery system, perhaps F11 or Alt-F11 or something.

On my HP laptop, it's F11 (or you can instead press Esc to get into a
menu which gives, inter alia, the system recovery option).

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