I formatted my laptop with the disk provided. The HP recovery partition (D) is still there and seems to be intact. But I lost the recovery manager and all this F11 staf won't respond. How can I make full system recovery back to factory settings using the portition D? Is the portition still usable or I should delete it? John

I'm not familliar with HP dv2210us ... but I know Vista likes giving error messages when you mess with partitions. As laptop starts is there a prompt to hit a Key (like F11?) To access Recovery?

Yes, there is F11 prompt, like before. But it does nothing when I hit the key (continues to windows as if I didn't hit any key). All other standard ways described on hp.com don't bring me to the Recovery Manager wizard as well. I think the problem is that I'm missing the recovery manager application. It worked before I messed it up though. Any solution, plz!!!! John

...can you boot-up with the disk provided? is it a CD? can you navigate to the recovery partition? if you can ...any files in there? what options does the disk give you? What else is on the disk? Why did you format?

Yes, I can boot-up with the disk and that is what I have done. It is a DVD called “Windows Anytime Update”. There is a note on the disk “This software is not licensed without purchase of separate digital license”. It did not bring me to the recovery manager, so that I could recover my system back to factory settings using the partition D. So I just simply installed the system from the disk (it was an option) formatting the partition “C”. But the problem is that after a while it started warning me to buy activation key, otherwise it would stop working in number of days. Again, the partition D is intact, and the software, that I have actually paid for, is in there. Please help me to solve this problem. I have only 9 days left before my license expires. John

Some recovery managers allow you to restore the drive via the Gui interface these days (from Windows) as you've formatted the drive you ca'nt(?). I've heard of but not used "unformat" progs which may do the trick?(purchase) If it was me I'd boot to the recovery(?) partition with a boot-up disc. There are programs that give you the 0ption to select which partition to make "active" once that is done you'd restart the pc and that partition would boot-up and kick in the recovery manager if it exists. As I am NOT familliar with your recovery there is no guarantee that the HP even works like that. It should'nt cost all that much to put right ... we have to learn from some point if we hav'nt been there yet you have now. ... end of message