recovery boot partition

[mirojr]

Hi

 

I have a netbook that had a F4 recovery partition on it, which since i installed grub amongst other things, I have not been able to access since with the F4 key. Although I get the option to recover the F4 key doesnt take me to the recovery partition.

 

The partition seems to be there looking through Gparted but its just not functioning.

 

I am thinking its the MBR that needs rewriting??

 

Anyone any ideas?

 

Ta

[andyturpie]

A bit hit and miss, but any partition manager program which allows the partition to be marked as active should to the trick?

[mirojr]

gparted gives a series of flags, the current one selected is DIAG’

(MS-DOS) - Enable this to indicate that a partition can be used as a diagnostics / recovery partition.

 

Nothing for making it active that I can see.

 

Wondering if i can do this with diskpart, will have a go

 

Thanks

[mirojr]

I made the volume active but still no joy

[mirojr]

Hiya

 

Anyone know how to rebuild the MBR so that the F4 key will boot into the recovery partition?

 

Am still unable to do this.

 

Only think I can think of is to image the drive from another maybe?

 

Thanks.

[andyturpie]

If you have an indentical laptop, then use acronis to clone a known good image and then run the recovery command from there. Never used it before but im sure there is a fixboot or fixmbr command somewhere, but I usually opt for my first option