How to create a 2nd set of HP recovery DVD's This works for ONLY those legit HP owners who own an HP laptop and burned one set of recovery DVD's. After the first set has been ccreated you are not allowed by the HP utility to create another set. So if you were like me and left your handing carrying case with your recovery discs on the airplane according to HP you one choice.

Order their recovery disc set from their website. THis is BS.you bought the rights to a legitmate set of installation discs. So if you have NOT deleted therecovery partion here is how you are able to create one more set of the discs without spending any money. This information si strictly for legitimate HP owners who have purchased a laptop with an OEM version of VISTA/XP and have lost or ruined their original recovery discs.

Apr 30, 2011 I have lost one of the disc's available with the only set of my recovery disc's given for the hp pavilion dv5. HP Pavilion DV6000: Drivers Download. Playstation 2 Esr Disc Patcher Download Games. So please help me find the recovery disc's for download and let me know as soon as possoible as icannot even. Hello,Does anyone has a link which i could download a recovery disk for hp pavilion dv6-3301ei? Id like to know if its possible to download hp recovery image for HP Pavilion dv7 7106ei. Just also wanted to let you know that HP ships teh notebooks with recovery. For recovery disk (DV6000. Dv6000 restore pc back to factory software. Oct 30, 2007 Can anyone upload HP Pavilion dv6000 recovery disk image somewhere on a web, please. I've partitioned a hard drive without creating above disks.

Set the folder options to allow viewing of hidden files and folders and show known file extensions. Search for the following file: hpcd.sys There will be 2 copies,1 in C: WINDOWS SMINST and 1 in E: Delete both copies of the hpcd.sys files. Run the HP recovery disk creation utility. - Mike By the way credit goes to the website at for providing useful details on how to do this! Thank you to all who contributed to this thread and helped me figure out how to run a 2nd DVD Recovery Copy. I'm guessing both solutions work (deleting hpcd.sys or hpdrcu.prc) depending on the version of Win7 and the model of HP.

On my (AMD 64) Pavilion with Win7 Home Premium, I found only the hpdrcu.prc files. However, as Win7 lacks a proper search (Find) feature, some may find it hard to find both files; e.g. 1) If you have partitioned your drive, you may have removed the drive (letter) for the Recovery Partition. As a result, my search with the Everything tool didn't find the file-name on the un-lettered partition. You need to use diskmgmt.msc to Add a Letter for this partition.