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Recovery disk for a specific HP pavilion

Last answer on Oct 27, 2009 1:33:21 pm GMT Mo91, on Dec 23, 2008 7:36:33 pm GMT 
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Hello,

I have a question... Does anyone know where i could find a recovery disc for a HP pavilion tx2517au.. couldn't find my model when i tried the following website: www.best2serve.com.

Please I really do need one!
Thanx in advance

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hp user, on Mar 3, 2009 6:07:47 pm GMT
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Go to the hp web site and search for contact hp. Call them. To my suprise they answered pretty fast. I got my disk for $21 in about 3c days. Good luck!

   
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alexsis, on Mar 19, 2009 5:00:40 pm GMT

Yardım lütfenn

   
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Gazaly, on Jun 10, 2009 10:12:35 pm BST
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How to create a 2nd set of HP recovery DVD's

This works for ONLY those legit HP owners who own an HP laptop and burned one set of recovery DVD's. After the first set has been ccreated you are not allowed by the HP utility to create another set.

So if you were like me and left your handing carrying case with your recovery discs on the airplane according to HP you one choice. Order their recovery disc set from their website. THis is BS...you bought the rights to a legitmate set of installation discs. So if you have NOT deleted therecovery partion here is how you are able to create one more set of the discs without spending any money.

This information si strictly for legitimate HP owners who have purchased a laptop with an OEM version of VISTA/XP and have lost or ruined their original recovery discs.

Set the folder options to allow viewing of hidden files and folders and show known file extensions.

Search for the following file: hpcd.sys

There will be 2 copies,1 in C:\WINDOWS\SMINST and 1 in E:\

Delete both copies of the hpcd.sys files.

Run the HP recovery disk creation utility.

- Mike

By the way credit goes to the website at http://directedge.us/node/24 for providing useful details on how to do this!

   
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rumaiisa, on Aug 1, 2009 4:15:59 pm BST
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Uhm, hey. This was a great help thanks! though i just need to confirm if i'll lost my data from my other drives? do i need to make a back up or will it remain intact?

   
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 Youstina, on Oct 27, 2009 1:33:21 pm GMT

My problem is that I formatted the Recovery partition accidentally. What can I do?

   
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Drksniper001, on Jun 12, 2009 1:35:17 am BST

Hey great advice Gazaly really helped me out i created another backup disk following your instructions thanx a million have a good one anyone else needing to create a new backup disk just follow the above post and BAM!! there you have it lol

   
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FenixRyan, on Jul 19, 2009 4:25:42 pm BST

Cheers Gazaly, your a star. Can confirm this really works.

   
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sir sumit, on Jul 22, 2009 1:04:02 pm BST

Hi

I'm in process of creating a recovery disc and got message that I can create only one set. After rading these post I looked for .sys file. I can see this file in C:\windows\sminst folder but there is no E drive in my laptop. Morepver there is a HP_Recovery(D:) partition and I'm not able to find this file over there.

I'm still getting the same message that I can only have one set of recovery discs even when I have renamed the original file.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

   
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h2moller, on Aug 1, 2009 1:50:40 pm BST

Hi I tried to your method Gazaly. But could not find the files anywhere.

Truns out if you can't find it you must deselect the hide operating system files in folder options.

Done it and I could find the files.

Thanks for the great post.

   
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horicul, on Oct 9, 2009 3:10:21 pm BST
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I have a HP Pavilion DV6 with Windows Vista and I had the same problem.

I used Unreal Commander (something like Total Commaner)
Start Unreal Commander -> Show->Show Hidden Files or CTRL+H
Go to D:\ and search there the HPCD.sys and rename it or delete it
Also go to: C:\Program Files (x86)\SMINST\ and rename or delete the HPCD.sys

Thank you very much, your post really helped me :)

   
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