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Recovery manager "factory reset" greyed out after a f11 bootup
I have an intact dedicated hp recovery partition ( "D:" drive ) on my laptop..Originally I used the HP factory restored discs to install everything for this computer onto a larger 320 GB WD BLUE SCORPION HDD SATA Drive. Then, i wanted to upgrade to a SSD so I used Acronis True Image Home edition to CLONE that HDD over to the NEW Toshiba 240 GB SSD..I'm suspecting that due to "cloning" that the HP recovery partition will now have limited functionality due to how HP links the recovery configuration data to the motherboard BIOS at production time ?? When I tap on F11 at startup, it loads the recovery partition environment to the point where I see the Recovery manager, but the "factory restore/reset" option is greyed out & unclickable...
I also resized the C Drive to allow "over-provisioning" to make the new Toshiba SSD happy because their SSD UTILITY Recommends that..This resulted in an extra 67 GB "unallocated" partition.. The other 4 partitions are PRIMARY NTFS except for the HP_TOOLS ( E: ) Drive Partition being FAT32 of course...The "BOOT" Drive is the C Drive..The SYSTEM (G:) Drive is the "Active" Drive....
Even if I set the RECOVERY PARTITION to "active", that doesn't rectify my issue either...
I've also read on a post somewhere online that HP creates 4 "basic" partitions when they create these computers & any attempt to resize, delete, reallocate, etc. the basic partitions turns all the partitions into "DYNAMIC" Partitions whatever this means ??