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I created Recovery discs to backup my hard drive. I was prompted to create a set of five discs but some error prevented me from creating the last one. Hope that won’t show to be an issue later.

Now, my system crashed and I need to get all my data back, but am unsure of the steps to take to do so from the recovery discs. Can you tell me how and anything things else I might need to know? Thanks so much!

Best reply by choliscott:

Did you put the first recovery disc in the cd/dvd drive & reboot the computer & see if it allows you to boot off the cd? If nothing happens then you will need to go into the bios & see if its set to boot the cd first then the hard drive.

If this is set correctly, then you probably didn’t make the boot cd. Since you had an error, its possible you will still have issues.

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How to restore hard drive from created backup Recovery Discs?

I have a strange issue. I have a Compaq laptop, and when I test the hard drive through the BIOS, it is returning a failure error. The recovery partition is on this hard drive, and the drive is still accessible and usable for the most part. How can I replace the hard drive and still use the recovery partition to reload Windows?

Best reply by annorax64:

You can’t.

Your best bet is to try to save the recovery partition to CD or DVD. I’m thinking that there is probably directions in the documentation that came with the laptop on how you were supposed to create a recovery CD from the recovery partition in case this very situation occurred. It may be too late now though.

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