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I have a HP Pavilion dm1, a light-weight laptop with no optical drive.
It has a recovery partition from which I can restore the installed Windows 7 Home edition. It seems to be a special folder; I do not get access to it from within Windows 7.
Is there any way for me to back up this partition (through the network, or onto a USB device) so I can restore it in case the hard drive fails?
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this being installed on my system! However, it refuses to run because it can't find an optical drive - duh. But maybe I can trick it into accepting a virtual one, I'll do a bit of playing around. Thanks also for the
swsetup
tip, will keep that in mind! – Pekka – 2011-04-25T09:45:11.197The program doesn't even open without an optical drive? That's absurd! And you told it to use a flash drive, not the DVD drive? Talk about poorly designed software. Hopefully you'll figure out a way; feel free to edit my post to include whatever workaround you found for the lack of disk drive. – nhinkle – 2011-04-25T09:46:16.507
@nhikle yeah, I will if I find something! It's indeed absurd: It's a pre-installed program on a device that has no DVD drive, but it refuses to take me even to the first step because there is no DVD drive. – Pekka – 2011-04-25T09:47:36.577
1pop in an external cd drive? . and HAH, i knew there was a recovery disk generator. I just didn't know what it would be called on a HP rig ;p – Journeyman Geek – 2011-04-25T11:16:30.033
@Pekka did this ever end up working? – nhinkle – 2011-05-03T04:05:40.070
@nhinkle I haven't got around to trying yet! I will post feedback once I have. – Pekka – 2011-05-03T07:45:51.430
@Pekka curious if this ever worked with the lack of CD drive... any udpates? – nhinkle – 2012-01-13T23:49:24.910