Hp Pavillion Dv6 Recovery Disk Download

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I am using windows 7 on hp pavilion dv4-3031tx and I created the recovery disk for windows and drivers from the recovery partition they provided with the notebook. After that I deleted the recovery parttion drive as I had my disks burned. Now I lost my disks and can not make another recovery disk as I deleted the recovery partition drive.

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I have just recently got a HP Pavilion dv6-1315tx computer second hand. It comes with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. The first thing I wanted to do was to create a recovery disk,but it seems as if the previous owner has already created a set. I am from Sri Lanka so I cannot order a Recovery Kit from HP. Their support page is confusing.

After doing a lot of research, I deleted files such as hpdrcu.dat from the recovery partition as well as another location. I also searched for Rebecca.dat but to no avail on my whole system, but still it gives the same error.

I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me a method to create a new set of disks.

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5 Answers

It worked for me by deleting 2 files. No need to reboot:

  • D:hpdrcu.prc
  • C:ProgramDataHewlett-PackardRecoveryhpdrcu.prc
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GraemeGraeme

Unfortunately, You can create only one set of Recovery Discs as mentioned here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=bph07143

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But You can ask your previous owner for Recovery Discs and clone them.

abhishekkannojiaabhishekkannojia

After many months of searching I finally found away. I give credit to https://sites.google.com/site/mybyways/info/hp-cyberlink .

My simplified method is first to show hidden files and folders, then find the following files:

  1. C:ProgramDataHewlett-PackardRecoveryhpdrcu.prc
  2. C:Program FilesHewlett-PackardRecoveryhpdrcu.sys
  3. D:hpdrcu.prc

Add .bak to the ends of each of these files eg: hpdrcu.prc.bak

I do not know whether this will work on all computers, but it certainly works on mine.

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I have a Hewlett Packard Pavilion Slimline S5310f, running Windows 7 Home Premium and was able to make multiple 'Factory Recovery' Disc sets. (I only needed to locate TWO files!)

from C drive locate the file hpdrcu.prc, and rename it hpdrcu.prc.bak ( I located mine at: C:HPProgramDataHewlett-PackardRecoveryhpdrcu.prc )

then,

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from the D drive locate the file: hpdrcu.prc, and rename it hpdrcu.prc.bak( Mine was located at: D:hpdrcu.prc )

I only had to change these TWO files, and after changing them and rebooting, was able to use the HP Factory Recovery to create my 3-disc Factory Recovery DVDs.

Even tho I went to Folder Options and made it show invisible files, Search DID NOT show me these files, I had to dig for them!

Hope this helps anyone that has a HP s5310f Slimline PC running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Also, to make a 2nd or 3rd set, just follow the above again and again.

StevenInMichiganStevenInMichigan

For my e9250t (a 2009 machine), the culprit was three files found here:

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All three were hidden. Just rename those files, no reboot necessary.

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