scottstheone
New Member
IF YOUR HP RECOVERY DISCS DON'T WORK or YOU'VE LOST YOU HP RECOVERY PARTITION, maybe this will fix it and RECREATE YOUR HP RECOVERY PARTITION...
I have an HP Pavilion dv2419us, a version of dv2000, with an AMD Turion 64 (64 bit) that came preinstalled with Recovery Partition. I deleted the partition, and made my recovery backup discs. When I went to recover the laptop to its original factory state, the recovery discs would not work. I kept getting a
Couldn't find boo.mgr
error.
HERE'S WHAT I DID TO FIX THE PROBLEM:
1. I loaded Vista (or other OS will probably work too) from a regular install disk.
2. Once Vista was loaded, I went to Computer Management inside of Vista, and shrunk the C partition by 8 gigs, allowing 8 gigs for my recovery partition.
3. Then I formatted another partition as NTFS and made it 8 gigs in size.
4. I gave it a Drive Letter of E:
5. I put my HP Recovery Disc into the disc drive, and copied everything on the HP Recovery DVD (I used double-layer so it all fit on 1 disk, you may have more than 1) to the new E drive.
6. I then went back to Administrative Tools>Computer Management and marked my recovery partition as active. (This is critical or it will not boot)
7. Then I was able to boot from my Recovery Disc, by hitting Y when asked if I would like to boot from disc. (You don't hit F11).
I have an HP Pavilion dv2419us, a version of dv2000, with an AMD Turion 64 (64 bit) that came preinstalled with Recovery Partition. I deleted the partition, and made my recovery backup discs. When I went to recover the laptop to its original factory state, the recovery discs would not work. I kept getting a
Couldn't find boo.mgr
error.
HERE'S WHAT I DID TO FIX THE PROBLEM:
1. I loaded Vista (or other OS will probably work too) from a regular install disk.
2. Once Vista was loaded, I went to Computer Management inside of Vista, and shrunk the C partition by 8 gigs, allowing 8 gigs for my recovery partition.
3. Then I formatted another partition as NTFS and made it 8 gigs in size.
4. I gave it a Drive Letter of E:
5. I put my HP Recovery Disc into the disc drive, and copied everything on the HP Recovery DVD (I used double-layer so it all fit on 1 disk, you may have more than 1) to the new E drive.
6. I then went back to Administrative Tools>Computer Management and marked my recovery partition as active. (This is critical or it will not boot)
7. Then I was able to boot from my Recovery Disc, by hitting Y when asked if I would like to boot from disc. (You don't hit F11).