Mistakenly formatted recovery partition

[hozyali]

Hello,

I have HP laptop 4520s with windows 7 home premium 32bit.

By mistake I formatted the 2GB partition of HP recovery. The partition is there but just empty.

I want its data back or is there any other way to create it as a recovery partition again?

please help, I am a bit tense about this.

Thanks

 

[brianzion]

hi and welcome to the forums

here is a link to a well known program(free) have a read through and see if it will help Recuva - File Recovery Recovery from damaged or formatted disks
Recuva - Recovery from damaged or formatted disks

Recovery from damaged or formatted disks

The dreaded hard drive crash. The file you forgot to backup before you reformatted a drive. The camera memory card with your holiday snaps that no longer works. Recuva can handle them too.
Windows (and other operating systems) uses a hidden index on hard drives, USB drives, and memory cards. Instead of having to search through the entire drive for a file you request, all it has to do is look it up in the index -- a much faster process.
Unfortunately, if the index is damaged, Windows can no longer find your files, even if the files themselves haven't been corrupted. That's where Recuva comes in.
Unlike Windows, Recuva scans all parts of a drive, looking for the bits that make up your files. If a drive's index has been damaged, chances are other parts of the drive may have been damaged too. Recuva will show you a list of files it has found on the drive, and give you an estimate of the likelihood of success of recovering them.
Similarly, when you format a drive (especially if you use the Quick Format option), Windows erases the hidden index but does not overwrite the existing files until you start saving new data to it. Recuva can still scan the drive's contents to find your files.

 

[seavixen32]

Hello,

I have HP laptop 4520s with windows 7 home premium 32bit.

By mistake I formatted the 2GB partition of HP recovery. The partition is there but just empty.

I want its data back or is there any other way to create it as a recovery partition again?

please help, I am a bit tense about this.

Thanks

Welcome to Windows seven Forums.

I take it you didn't create any recovery disks then?

If you have no joy with Recuva, you can buy a set of recovery disks via HP Support.

HP Notebook PCs - Order Recovery Discs for Windows 7, Vista, or XP - c00810334 - HP Business Support Center

Also, if you do use Recuva, you'll need an external hard drive to save the recovered files to.

 

[hozyali]

Okay. I am just finished with Recuva with no luck. All it found was 4 images and they are useless.

For the other question, yes I have windows recovery CDs created already.

Please advise.

thanks

 

[theog]

You could try Paragon Rescue kit:
Rescue Kit Free Edition | PARAGON Software Group - free partition software, hard disk partitioning

 

[seavixen32]

Okay. I am just finished with Recuva with no luck. All it found was 4 images and they are useless.

For the other question, yes I have windows recovery CDs created already.

Please advise.

thanks

Instructions for a factory restore from disk here:

How to Use an HP System Recovery Disc | Tech Tips on Salon.com

This will restore your computer to its factory state including a recovery partition on the hard drive.

 

[hozyali]

well, that is what I don't want to do because I have a lot of data, software and everything else. I know recovery can take backup, but i just don't want to go in that at this moment.

Is there any risk of not having the recovery partition ?

Okay. I am just finished with Recuva with no luck. All it found was 4 images and they are useless.

For the other question, yes I have windows recovery CDs created already.

Please advise.

thanks

Instructions for a factory restore from disk here:

How to Use an HP System Recovery Disc | Tech Tips on Salon.com

This will restore your computer to its factory state including a recovery partition on the hard drive.

 

[brianzion]

i would recover the system have you read brinks tutorial this will quide you How to Boot to the System Recovery Options in Windows 7 >>> http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

 

[brianzion]

can you copy all important data to another drive/external ?

 

[hozyali]

can you copy all important data to another drive/external ?

I can, but I have loads of data. its a pain for me

 

[Brink]

Hello Hozyali, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Better to be a pain than to lose it all.

I'm not sure this will work since you already formatted the partition, but you could try OPTION FOUR in the tutorial below with the Partition Recovery Wizard feature in Partition Wizard Home Edition to try and recover the HP recovery partition if it's not to late.

Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk

If it's not able to recover the HP recovery partition, then the link below will help show you how to order a replacement set of HP recovery discs for your specific model of computer to be able to use instead.

HP Notebook PCs - Order Recovery Discs for Windows 7, Vista, or XP - c00810334 - HP Business Support Center


Hope this may help,
Shawn