[ale] [OT] Help with burning recovery disks from HP

[Stephen Cristol]

On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Robert Reese~ wrote:
>> I'm trying to help someone restore an HP Vista box to what passes
>> for functionality. I don't really know what happened, but the box
>> won't boot (even in safe mode) and won't "recover." I used a live
>> CD to boot the box and can mount the recovery partition.
>>
>> Is there a way to use data from the boot partition to burn the
>> recovery CD?
>
> Have you tried tapping F11 repeatedly during and after POST?  I'm  
> assuming yes,
> though trying to be thorough.

Yes, we got to recovery mode, but it failed. That seems like it  
should be an ominous sign, but I don't know enough about Windows to  
know. The partition looks intact, so I was hoping to recover the  
recovery disks.

> Keep in mind, too, that HP's 'recovery' WILL cost your friend any  
> and all data
> on the Windows harddrive.

She is aware of that.

> Also, what model HP?

Sorry, that's not available to me at the moment.

Thanks,
S