Laptop back up discs or help?

[fletch8]

Ive got a 2 year old HP pavillion dv-6 laptop, which is broke.

i know it was never the best around but it comfotably did what i needed it to do. now however when i switch it on on, its got a normal mode and a recovery mode, go through recovery and a blue screen appears.

Ive also tried all the F8 F10 and F11 key options and nothing seems to work.

any thoughts what i could do, and if its a recovery disc option, where do i get them from?

cheers guys

 

[ChrisH]

If you need to buy recovery discs you can get them from: www.best2serve.com

 

[Craig3TCE]

My DV6000 came with Vista :dead:

I'd recommend sticking Win 7 on it ANY day! Makes it much faster and easier to use!
Only thing that doesn't work on mine now is my remote control

What do you want the backup discs for? Do you no longer have the recovery partition?

 

[fletch8]

What's a recovery partition mate?

Yeah I've had vista before and windows 7 is miles ahead.

 

[Craig3TCE]

All HPs come with recovery partitions. It's a split in the hard drive that the recovery "disc" is on. It's not a disc as such, but the same as. You can boot into the recovery partition and it's the same yet faster as you eliminate the need to read from a DVD.

If that makes sense :S

 

[fletch8]

I've tried the usual f8, 10 and 11.
How do I use this partition thing?

 

[Craig3TCE]

I don't have one anymore so can't say specifically. I upgraded my HDD.
On boot it should say "Recovery" or "Recovery Mode"?

Sorry I can't be more specific

 

[DrR]

Just go into my computer/windows explorer, you should have c:\ drive and d:\ drive called recovery.

 

[fletch8]

Cheers for the replies fellas.

Just got "start normally" or "start recovery"

When I choose the recovery option it just loads up a blank blue screen and stays like that. Think I I'll have to buy the discs unfortunately

 

[Craig3TCE]

How long have you left the recovery mode to start up for? Sometimes it's painfully slow. I've waited 30+ minutes before to boot into it iirc :/