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[was_jaclaz]

Besides why always reinvent the wheel?

Something you, like the vast majority of people, might be unaware of, is that the original design for the wheel was a square.

after a very unfortunate attempt to reduce the number of bumps by using a triangle as shape....

...it was later re-invented as an octagon, with the new approach of reducing the magnitude of bumps....

....then the latter idea evolved into a dodecagon....

...and only relatively recently it was fully developed as a circle,

Why, in my day, all we had was...:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=1908&hl=
and we LIKED it!



jaclaz

[MedEvil]

[aivengo]

Thanks jaclaz
I'll sadomize myself getting it back to work, until i will give up and put my hands up and call HP support (local HP support not that friendly actually)

i'll try the things you've linked to, I'll update...

[was_jaclaz]

Are you going to do yourself?

(I sincerely hope that your English dictionary is somehow defective, and you are NOT going to do what it seems)

jaclaz

[Stevie1]

hi all,

well i have somewhat the same problem but in my case its a fujitsu siemens laptop.
as i like a clean system, i did a complete re-install of windows. unfortunately i only
found out later, that there is a hidden WinRE partition. when pressing F8 before the vista boot
screen appears a new boot entry "restore system" is shown. i would really like to add this entry
to the boot menu again, but it seems harder than it is. i already tried to modify the boot menu with
bcdedit. but the problem is, that the WinRE partition is hidden. so i cant point to the partition to boot.
the only solution i found was to restore the WIM file with ImageX (part of the WAIK). but this has to
be done with an extra WinRE Boot CD. so its a bit complicated. does anyone still see a solution
to restore the boot menu entry?


greets stevie

[Nuno Brito]

Unfortunatelly at the moment the only solution seems to be Fujitsu-Siemens itself - look on the active topics and you'll see more users also refering the same issues and questions with their machines.

Hope someone else with a restore partition can help you..

[Stevie1]

hi Nuno!

well, i already called the FSC support. they say its irreversible.
but i dont trust those guys. im sure it is.

where did you read about those other FSC users?

[Nuno Brito]

Not directly related to Fujitsu-Siemens, but other manufacturers also adopted the same rescue partition method:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Need-help-...tion-t2037.html
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Recovery-p...ache-t2152.html

I agree with your opinion that it should be possible to restore back to factory defaults, but you would need another model from where to mirror the contents of the partition or at least study how it was done.

Until I get my hands on a machine of this sort I won't be able to help much, sorry..

[Stevie1]

hi Nino,

ahh, yeah, i read the 1st one of those.
well yeah, right, it should be possible.
if i only had done a backup before doing anything else, doh
well, keep us up to date if you get your hands on such a machine.
if u need further details i can maybe provide some, just ask.


greets stevie

[Nuno Brito]

If you have enough time and pacience I think we can learn more about this right now..

Can you post your initial question on a new topic so that we can start a new discussion dedicated to this "challenge"?

When you mean pressing F8, is this from Windows or from the BIOS?

Can you post your BCD file?

You find it at c:\Boot\BCD

I would like to compare it against mine for differences..