Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?

2008-07-02 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:19 AM 01/07/2008, FORC5 wrote: Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I figure

Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?

2008-07-02 Thread FORC5
Sp3 will not install unless at least sp1 is loaded. I suspect could goto sp2 direst with no problem. Going to find out today. she picked up a nasty virus and now it will only let me log on in safemode, asks for a pw even though there is NONE and I have even run pw changer on it to verify

Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?

2008-07-02 Thread FORC5
sounds like a bad hd to me too, I copied the recovery partition out but that data is light, i386 folder seems to be on C: very strange HP is really not that expensive on recovery cd's figured out this is not the original HD and somehow is why f 10 does not work. ( guess ) She left it

[H] HP recovery partition ?

2008-07-01 Thread FORC5
Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I figure replacing the drive is a good first step.

Re: [H] HP recovery partition ?

2008-07-01 Thread Ben Ruset
Why not jump from pre-SP1 all the way to SP3? FORC5 wrote: Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and restores are possible, I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK (