Hp pavilion dv6000 recovery

[McTazzz]

Hi All,
Trying to repair daughter friends lap top..
Problem: She installed a dogy copy of Windows 7 over her Vista without creating recovery discs.
Computer still shows drive D as recovery partition but cant recover to factory settings as W7 has remove HP recovery center programme etc
Can anyone pont me in the direction of a good download site were I can obtain a set of recovery discs or recomend any other action
Many thanks
Taz

[Tee_111]

Try This..

Go to Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, open Computer Management, open Storage and open Disk Management. Check to see if the partition is marked as Active? If it is not, click once to highlight it, right click and select Mark partition as Active. Reboot your PC and try the Recovery procedure again...

If the above does not work then download a copy of Vista from Torrents and insert keys from bottom of laptop and install drivers from HP Website..

[McTazzz]

TEE,
Computer managment wouldnot work...

Removed HDD and formated c: drive, set d: recovery as active drive,
refitted and booted up, laptop went to recovery mode.
All seemed great but now in getting messeage " This copy of windows is not genuine "
Used activation box and stated activation sucessful,
I have been downloading MS updates most of the night, surley if not genuine I would not be able to do this

help appreciated
Taz

[Tee_111]

If you have activated the keys and is coming up as successful then you should get all updates as you have activated the keys..

Did you use the keys under laptop?


Google a file called "RemoveWAT.sfx.exe" that will remove windows not geniune message and activate the copy for you.. I have tried the one for windows 7 and it works fine..

[McTazzz]

Tee,
Thanks for your help..

[Tee_111]

No worries mate, hope you got it sorted.