Recovery Partition in HP Mini® 5102

How does a recovery partition work in HP Mini 5102? How can you recover partitions that are corrupt?

In HP Mini 5102, partition based recovery systems are mostly used because it is usually faster than their disc based counterparts since the data is directly on the hard drive, so that no disc swapping is needed. Also, creating recovery partition is cheaper than storing it in a recovery disc. So creating recovery partition on your HP Mini 5102 is recommended and it’s easy too.

• What is a recovery partition?
• How it works in HP Mini 5102?
• How to recover partitions that have become corrupted in HP Mini 5102?

What is a recovery partition?

A recovery partition is the partition where your files and folders will be stored during system failure. With this partition you can get back your data even after HP Mini 5102 has crashed or failed to boot. This recovery partition will be a separate partition on your hard drive. You can get back your data even after a blue screen error appears on your system.

How it works in HP Mini 5102?

Some of the roles of a recovery partition in HP Mini 5102 are creating a raw image for use with other L-Soft products which are all Windows programs, creating and restoring a raw disk image back to the HDD but it will be available in DOS only, keeping the partition program on a bootable floppy disk due to its small size, displaying complete physical and logical drive information, making it easy to use because it can be controlled only by arrows, Enter and Esc keys. So it is more user friendly in nature.

During upgrading of the operating system on your HP Mini 5102, if the recovery partition is not listed on the system, you can recover your data which was corrupted using the Windows 7 Operating System DVD and the driver recovery disc. For additional details regarding this, you can contact your manufacturer’s technical support. You can do is by going to ‘Start’ and select ‘Help and Support’ and click the ‘Contact Support’ option in your HP Mini 5102. If the HP recovery partition is listed while installing the operating system then restart the HP Mini 5102 and then press the Esc key when the “Press the ESC key for Startup Menu” message is displayed at the bottom of the screen of your HP Mini 5102. Then press F11 on your keyboard for when a recovery message is displayed on the screen. Then follow the on-screen instructions that will be shown on your HP Mini 5102 to complete the recovery process with the recovery partition method.