I am running an HP left 12GB unpartitioned ran the tool and it did not give any option to create a recovery partion
What don't you know if your machine has recovery partition or not we can't answer there are so many models my inspiron 530 came with recovery partition. or are you asking does the program posted for HP work for dell No it wont.
ive tried on hp pavilion dv7 running w7 professional with the old HP-RECOVERY partition for vista still there but formatted! ran setup and still no option to create recovery partition?
Try this Code: C:\Windows\SMINST\RAMDSK\Windows\SYSTEM32\Shrink.exe that is the excutable for the recovery partition creator PS: for the people who have got this to work can you post what size the recovery partition is and what letter it used
YES running that offers to create Recovery Partition on my system as well. Make sure your C: drive (System) isnt greater than 12gb if youve got a blank Vista Recovery Partition of 12gb already.I found that the program hangs trying to shrink large System Partitions thats why I did a clean install of Win 7 Pro with just my drivers installed and NO recovery partition just a C Drive. DracUK DracUK
hey dude, here is my situation : i'm using laptop compaq cq20-108tu bios slic 2.1 just updated from HP, and NO MORE recovery Vista premeium partition. ( because of an serious accident so i have to format and merge all disk partition into ONE, now running W7 ultimate genuines activated ) and i have 3 question hope u guys help me figure it out: 1. if i install and use that program ( in page #1 ), do i need to SHRINK my disk now into TWO partition or the software will automatically do for me?? 2. if yes How Much is ok [ because capacity of my hdd is small ] 3. after all, that new partition will be VISTA recovery partition or W7 i'm using ?? any help is very appreciate !!! p/s sorry for my poor English
It seems reasonable to assume that if a computer is identified as an HP machine then the it should work and they way they will determine if it is an HP computer is by checking for an HP SLIC in the BIOS. Which is what my previous HP machines have done when restoring from the media and I had one instance when a motherboard was replaced by an engineer who forgot to put the modified BIOS to the motherboard. When I tried to restore it wouldn't work so the engineer had to come back again to flash the BIOS It is unlikely that this bit of software was written for a specific model computer (it is a 216MB file) but rather for general use on HP machines. So I would think that it will work on any PC with a HP BIOS. Has anyone tried this with a modded BIOS? the two versioned mentions are the same but different isuues one v4.0.14 (3 Jul 2007) the other is v4.0.31 (16 May 2008) is
If you put in a HD with HP Win7 or Vista on it and it boots.. ie: it does not give you bsod 7b etc. then it should also work. Maybe the partition utility will check if its HP strings in the bios. but thats just a software lockout and not hardware incompatable
I just used a spare 250gb hard drive and told win7 to format as one drive,install win 7 and then installed that hp program and let it do its work DracUK
Just wondering if the people that were successful in re creating the HP Win7 Recovery Partition. Have you installed x86 or x64 version of Win7? Because I am using x64 and I am wondering if the Shrink program is having a problem with the X64 only Extra hidden system boot partition?
Now you come to mention it I was running Win7 Pro x64 and the shrink program seemed to hang for 30mins at shrinking and gave me an error that it couldnt shrink the system partition.I thought it was because my original Win 7 fully loaded partition was 12.5gb and the original blank vista recovery partition was 12gb.I was not happy with the x64 os for another reason so I changed to a fresh install of x32 Win 7 Pro and no problems then.I cant say wether it was the partition size at fault or the version of os though.Maybe just a coincidence. DracUK