Recovery Partition

FC1983 · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:31

I have a recovery partition on my Gateway laptop which is used to make recovery CD's. The CD's have become scratched and I cant create any new ones as I have formatted the laptop. Is there anyway of creating the CD's now, or installing straight from the partition?

Dano · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:42

Did you delete the recovery partition or just lose access to it? Check in computer management (right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management) to see if the recovery partition still exists.

FC1983 · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:51

Dano said:
Did you delete the recovery partition or just lose access to it? Check in computer management (right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management) to see if the recovery partition still exists.

The recovery partition is there, but I'm pretty sure it's not a bootable partition, just used for making the disks. I can see all the files in it.

Dano · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:07

Yeh, but the original install will most likely have had a custom boot script that allowed you to access it via an F button on system startup, if you can find a way to restore that option you should be able to recover the machine direct from the partition.

Take a look on the Gateway website or hit google.

FC1983 · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:12

Yeah I have done, it's F11 for some models, but it doesn't work on this one, just mentions creating the CD's.

Dano · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:14

http://support.gateway.com/s/SOFTWARE/Medialess/MLXPH0su46.shtml

Should possibly restore the F11 option, which you will have lost when you formatted the main drive.

FC1983 · 15 Mar 2009 at 17:03

Thanks for that, I have installed the recovery centre though to try and make the disks but it is saying it cant find the partition, so that must be why F11 doesn't work aswell.

Dano · 15 Mar 2009 at 18:42

Rats