I am working on a Emachine w5243 that has a PC angel recovery partition and should have vista installed on it. It was brought to me is a state where it boots to what looks to be a vista PE invironment but NOTHING is accessable short of seeing the desktop and some strange (what I think to be boot partition creation software). after it sits on the desktop for about 1 min, something trys to start loading, but it never does (I have left this running for over 24hrs) and I cant see the splash scree because its covered with what looks to be something copying or installing, but again, I get nowhere leaving this run... I thing the end user may have somehow installed a partial OS but now I can no longer access the F11 recovery partition, etc... It looks like the D: partition (pc angel) is there and is intact but at this point I cant access it and I need to either:
1.) recreate or reconstruct the F11 option (or whatever F key it was)
2.) find software that will allow me to access the PC angel recovery partition.
The EU has no recovery disks as this was a refurb system and I/them do not want to pay for copies of vista when there is a perfectly good copy of the recovery partition on the D drive.
Any insight on how to access and restore this data would be greatly appreciated.
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i guess thats the best answer... by no means is it the answer I was looking for... I can't believe that this is a pay per service and this is the best answer... Nobus-thanks for the imput, and I know I can get a recovery CD, thats not really the point... I want to know how to access the recovery partition.
>> I thing the end user may have somehow installed a partial OS but now I can no longer access the F11 recovery partition, << he overwrote the boot sector; that is why he lost the access to the restore partition :
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
the only thing i can suggest, is editing the MBR on a working emachine, and copy that to yours
you can use bootit-ng for that : www.terabyteunlimited.com/
The tool that might help you to access hidden recovery partition is:
http://www.partition-re
Manufacturing has their own kit to create hidden recovery partition, you might not able to get it (many people wants that).
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by: nobusPosted on 2009-01-12 at 00:36:49ID: 23351724
maybe you can get a recovery cd free : http://www.dexplor.com/php