Still, if you installed an inferior software or driver on your computer, it may also lead to damaged partitions. shut down the computer improperly or experience a sudden power off, may cause hard drive failure/damage or partition loss. Human errors like operate the computer improperly, e.g. What causes the partition damage? A computer virus attack may cause a partition damage and huge data loss. This hard disk may be not damaged easily, but the partitions on it may be damaged under some circumstances. Normally a hard disk like MBR disk contains primary partition and extend partition (on which you can create more logical partitions). By partitioning the (external) hard drive for free, different data and system files may be stored in different partitions to help you manage hard drive data more efficiently.
And also, it could give you more chance to recover lost/deleted files when Undelete Recovery module in MiniTool Mac Data Recovery cannot help you.Īs we all know, a hard disk drive can be divided into several partitions (also called volumes in a dynamic disk). In general, the files in the damaged partition could be recovered as long as the partition exists. But you cannot restore recovery partition wrote:The Damaged Partition Recovery function provided in MiniTool Mac Data Recovery focuses on helping users to repair damaged partition and recover deleted/lost files and folders from damaged, crashed or formatted partition.
If you've done upgrade install to Windows 10 and successful activation thereon in the first place, you can do a clean install of Windows 10 Home 64 bit in your laptop, using Windows media creation tool. Only thing I know which can do that is Recovery USB/discs. Which software? Did you mean this software restored recovery partition back? ".I found a software and some how used it to recover it on my laptop." -> If so, it has become inoperable and corrupted after upgrade to Windows 10.ĥ. Which firmware? Are you referring to recovery partition in hard drive?
".Seems it deleted the hp firmware on the hard disk." -> Was this done after upgrade activation in the first place?Ĥ. I installed windows 10 by changing GPT TO MBR in other to install it" ->ĭo you mean that you Clean installed Windows 10? So you'll not be able to use HP recovery partition to reset after upgrade.ģ. Upgrade install will automatically render HP recovery partition inoperable.
Did you upgrade install from Windows 8.1 Bing to Windows 10 Home first, and get Windows 10 activated successfully? Did you create Recovery media yourself after first setup of this laptop?Ģ. Your laptop came with Windows 8.1 Bing 64bit from factory.ġ. No other way than to order recovery media from HP if you want to factory reset OS. Try installing the AMD driver I suggested before. Is my machine not built for it Your laptop came with AMD Dual-Core Processor E1-2100 with Radeon HD 8210 Graphics (Integrated). Why does the videos lag( they don't play well) when I upgrade to windows 10. It has to be from the exact same wrote:Ħ. Can I use his recovery partition? That is I create a bootable image from his and use it on mine? No you cannot use Recovery media created from another different model to recover operating system in this. They are not in my country You can now do a Clean install by creating UEFI bootable USB and booting from it as elaborated in the tutorial I have wrote:ĥ.my friend has a similar laptop hp notebook 15-f205dz. I can't order for recovery media from hp. I am also surprised that you were able to use HP Recovery Manager after the upgrade to factory reset wrote:Ĥ.
Even if you get back the partition alone by other means, it will not work in factory resetting OS again to the original one 99% of the cases. Once you do upgrade installation, clean installation etc, the HP Recovery partition gets corrupted or inoperable most of the times. It got it back for me That is not going to work. I used partition recovery mini tool software. I couldn't find the recovery partition thenģ. Changing gpt meant deletion of the whole hard drive.
Have you installed AMD graphics driver from this support page for the video issue you were wrote:
And HP also lists drivers needed after installation here. I don't know if my laptop supports windows 10. This is the easiest and inexpensive method of installing Windows 10 in your wrote:Ģ. Since Windows 10 Home 64bit has been activated, you can easily CLEAN INSTALL Windows 10 Home in your laptop (if you wish to do so) using Microsoft windows media creation tool. I upgraded and windows was successfully activated. This media woudl have helped you in situations like these. Made a mistake selecting the 0S You should've created Recovery discs/USB (one-time process) yourself after first setup of this laptop. You're right, it came with windows 8.1 with bing.