Need to access recovery partition for Vista

SB118 · 9 Oct 2007 at 20:39

Still trying to get a friends lappy working

It's a turion64 based fuji thing. I've downloaded a a vista cd but when it loaded up (using the key on the lappy sticker) it comes up with 32bit vista.

I can see a "hidden" partition on the drive which i'm guessing is a recovery setup, but i've got no way of getting to it.

Any ideas?

EternalMovement · 9 Oct 2007 at 20:44

Try tapping the "C" "R", "F6" or "F10" button on the the laptop when you first start it up.

SB118 · 9 Oct 2007 at 20:49

Tried, nothing

EternalMovement · 9 Oct 2007 at 21:02

Your friend might of been given a boot up cd with the laptop which starts up the recovery. Thats something to check.

Can you get into windows at all as they may be a option to start it off from there hidden in the start menu somewhere?

SB118 · 9 Oct 2007 at 22:27

Gave up, used a plain xp home disc and deleted al the partitions and started fom scratch.

After checking the fuji site, they don't support xp x64 OR vista 64. What the hell is the point building a machine with an 64bit cpu if there's no OS support for it! :mad:

A[L]C · 10 Oct 2007 at 12:12

SB118 said:
Gave up, used a plain xp home disc and deleted al the partitions and started fom scratch.

After checking the fuji site, they don't support xp x64 OR vista 64. What the hell is the point building a machine with an 64bit cpu if there's no OS support for it!

same with dell mate - they offer 4gb ram but ship it with 32bit vista!