Laptops Restore my laptop without the recovery discs

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I have a HP pavillion laptop which came with pre installed vista, i have installed windows 7 / ubuntu linux in it, now i want to restore in to vista, is it possible to do it without the recovery discs? its not here with me right now... there is a recovery partition in D:/ drive but when i try booting tht up, it loads in to windows 7 only..... why is it so?:S:S
 
Re: Restore ma laptop without the recovery discs

^ first try option no. 1

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1. Click Start and enter Recovery in the search field. Select Recovery Manager from the list when it becomes available. Allow the action to continue, if prompted. The HP Recovery Manager opens.

Alternately, click Start , All Programs , Recovery Manager , and then Recovery Manager . Allow the action to continue, if prompted. The HP Recovery Manager opens.

2. Click Advanced options , System recovery , and then click Next . The PC will restart and reopen the recovery manager. Alternately, if Advanced options is disabled, click Next , and then System Recovery . The PC will restart.

3. When the PC restarts, select the System recovery option and click Next

4. If prompted to use the Microsoft System Restore program, click No , and then click Next .

5. When prompted, select the Back up your files first (recommended) option, and then click Next . Follow the on-screen instructions.

6. When prompted to Recover without backing up your files , please STOP before clicking Next .

8. If you are satisfied that you want to begin the recover process, click Next . The PC immediately begins formatting the hard drive and destroying all data.

Follow above mentioned steps....
 
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Punker said:
^ first try option no. 1

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1. Click Start and enter Recovery in the search field. Select Recovery Manager from the list when it becomes available. Allow the action to continue, if prompted. The HP Recovery Manager opens.

Alternately, click Start , All Programs , Recovery Manager , and then Recovery Manager . Allow the action to continue, if prompted. The HP Recovery Manager opens.

2. Click Advanced options , System recovery , and then click Next . The PC will restart and reopen the recovery manager. Alternately, if Advanced options is disabled, click Next , and then System Recovery . The PC will restart.

3. When the PC restarts, select the System recovery option and click Next

4. If prompted to use the Microsoft System Restore program, click No , and then click Next .

5. When prompted, select the Back up your files first (recommended) option, and then click Next . Follow the on-screen instructions.

6. When prompted to Recover without backing up your files , please STOP before clicking Next .

8. If you are satisfied that you want to begin the recover process, click Next . The PC immediately begins formatting the hard drive and destroying all data.

Follow above mentioned steps....
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i cant find Hp recovery manager :-( , thats the problem...
 
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Punker said:
what exactly happens when you press f11 ?
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it says system recovery and then takes to the boot up menu.. which shows which OS to select

1.Ubuntu

2.windows 7

3.windows vista

when i click windows vista also , it takes to windows 7....

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pls help me out guys......:-(
 
Re: Restore ma laptop without the recovery discs

I guess when you installed the second and third OS on to the system, it messed with the start-up options. Now I think your only chance is a restore DVD/CD.
 
Just one question, Why would you want to switch back to Vista when you have Windows 7 ?
 
H2O said:
Just one question, Why would you want to switch back to Vista when you have Windows 7 ?
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was using a key given by one of ma friend , it was MSDN key.. now its blacklisted.. dont know what happ.. so wanna switch back
 
well i had pre installed with vista in my lappy. and due to some probl thought of formatting it. could not understand how to use rescue disk. is rescue disk is same as bootable disk?
pl suggest the site. make of my laptop is toshiba.
 
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