laptop recovery partion help please

woody79 · 23 Nov 2008 at 19:08

i have a advent 10 inch laptop with no cdrom,witch crashed on boot up ive recoverd it using a bent copy of xp,what i wont to no is how can i get to see the partion,and can i recover it,i can see it in admin tools in xp but cant do nothing with it.as it has no drive letter.

thnx for any help.

beermonster · 23 Nov 2008 at 19:51

are you just wanting to free this partition up for space? I don't think you'd be able to make use of the data there, just use a partion program to free it up.

woody79 · 23 Nov 2008 at 19:58

i was hope to recover from it m8.

beermonster · 23 Nov 2008 at 20:05

don't think its posible its used by the recovery process, does the F8 on start up and repair computer option appear?

woody79 · 23 Nov 2008 at 22:33

no it uses the techguys recovery option but thtas not there any more as i had boot error that was stopping me getting to the the recovery option just after u switch it on.

beermonster · 23 Nov 2008 at 22:57

can you not request a recovery dvd for it?

Dano · 24 Nov 2008 at 09:57

They usually have a F-button setup to enter recovery during boot though they don't show which, just reboot it and repeatedly tap F12, if nothing happens do it again with F11 and so on.

beermonster · 24 Nov 2008 at 14:53

Dano said:
They usually have a F-button setup to enter recovery during boot though they don't show which, just reboot it and repeatedly tap F12, if nothing happens do it again with F11 and so on.

He's wiped the boot partition with a fresh install so he no longer has this option, ideally what you should do is create the restore discs onto a USB pen drive as soon as you get the laptop booted up but no one ever does.

Dano · 24 Nov 2008 at 15:21

beermonster said:
He's wiped the boot partition with a fresh install so he no longer has this option, ideally what you should do is create the restore discs onto a USB pen drive as soon as you get the laptop booted up but no one ever does.

Wiping the boot partition has never stopped me from doing so on my Vaio, so long as the recovery partition is intact.

beermonster · 24 Nov 2008 at 17:28

a quick google and it would seem someone has made it possible to put the backup partition on pen drive here

Nanobot · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:24

Is it a 4211?

woody79 · 29 Nov 2008 at 20:32

yes it is m8,maybe if some one has the same laptop they could make me a coppy and i can use my xp serial number on the back off laptop,the documentation said i can make a back up off it with a pen drive but it went **** up before i had the chance.

beermonster · 2 Dec 2008 at 23:50

the link i posted let you create a pendrive image

woody79 · 9 Dec 2008 at 16:38

thnx for the find beermonster,will try this later i have since formated the partion will this still work ??????

beermonster · 9 Dec 2008 at 16:47

this will create a pen drive that works like a restore cd so should work fine