Recovery Partition - Create

hi si8mon, funny you should say that, i was having exactly this discussion with gregrocker last week, the conclusion we came to was that basically, it would mean some kind of BIOS mod, although i will shortly be testing to see if its possible to "fool" the OEM BIOS into loading the wrong partition (i kind of have an idea how to do it, but im not sure it will work) ill post back when i get the results

not yet, still working on it! Im trying to figure out how to get the BIOS to load boot.wim rather than the OEM software, to be honest, im thinking a BIOS mod is going to be the only way forward, and I have no idea how to even attempt that

add into that every single OEM uses their own version, and every BIOS is slightly different... well you can see the headaches right? even if by some miracle i figure it out, it will only work on my own BIOS, and not any one elses

UPDATE: Note added to end of tutorial to get around a bug where Windows would corrupt the Recovery Partiton

i haven't the windows disc the pc i bought never come with one it was on drive d that the 1TB hard drive had been partitioned with. i sent the pc off for repair and it came back with just c drive on the hard drive so i was wondering how i would reinstall windows if need be? is it with a system image?

best regards brian.

Hi Brian. Id phone the manufacturor to get a Recovery Disk if I were you. System Images arent resotrable without a recovery partition or Windows disk

hi thanks for reply. i have the recovery discs i made when i first got the pc will these be ok?

It depends, If the Recovery Disks just facilitate restoring from the Missing Recov Partition then you could have an issue.

If however they are "true" recovery disks, (IE you can reinstall Windows just using the disks) or they allow uyou to boot into WinRE (windows recovery enviroment, or "Repair My Computer") then they should do the job fine