Recovery Compatiblity Help

If you bought a desktop or laptop computer, but without recovery partition, these things can fix recovery compatiblity errors

HP
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### Laptops

#### 2002-2006

1. Reinstall Windows wither from a clean copy or closely-branded version
2. insert the burnt/real Applications and Drivers disc
3. Follow the steps given in the installer

#### 2006-2009 (UC)

1. Open the first disc ISO image in PowerISO or any ISO image editor.
2. Locate the P/N on the bottom of the laptop. This will be used for the next step.
3. Open the BLOCK.RIN file in the first disc's ISO Image and change it to your laptop's P/N. Save it somewhere.
4. Overwrite the BLOCK.RIN file, save the modified ISO image and burn it on a DVD disc.
5. Start the laptop with the modified first disc.
6. Follow the steps shown to restore the laptop.

#### 2009-present

Currently, the steps supports consumer PCs manufactured in 2015 and earlier.

Download one of the sets from archive.org

if you have enough blank dvd 9 discs, burn into the said laptop, otherwise put those in the USB.

change the option code on info.txt, rutracker sets shown as:

acb to abe.

boot the laptop

follow the steps to recover

if you live in Spain, use the HBCD’s MiniXP (pre-Win8 sets) or HBCD PE x64 (Win8[.1] sets) to remove alawart (replace with wild tangent in 1(.5)c12 and 2c12), replace English/row/US/Brazilia/Korea games to eu games (1.5c11 to 3c11 (2c12 for non-Russian sets)) , install English, Spanish, Catalan, Galician and basque (remove Turkish or Russian), etc during pininst

Wait for the pininst to fully finish

if it spawns a ctoerror flag file, use a windows installation disc (repair your computer) to get to the desktop, use regedit to add unattended.reg, rmpostoobe.fog, delete the unattended.xml files in windows/panther, use sysprep to go to oobe, delete the ctoerror.flag file, insert the windows pe usb, do 2ndcap manually, delete the sdv partition, extend user partition, and the pc is reset to where it was bought in store back in the day.

#### 2009-2011 (UC)

1. Open the first disc ISO image in PowerISO or any ISO image editor.
2. Locate the P/N on the bottom of the laptop. This will be used for the next step.
3. Rename the RIN file in the first disc's ISO Image's preload folder with your laptop's P/N.
4. Save the modified ISO image and burn it on a DVD disc.
5. Start the laptop with the modified first disc.
6. Follow the steps shown to restore the laptop.

#### 2011-14

To transform a multi-disc image to a USB, the following steps are to be done:

1. Image the first ISO to a USB using a bootable USB drive creation tool (e.g. Rufus).
2. For each ISO, extract the parted Data.bin files and append them to the Data.bin in the USB.
3. Edit the Info.dat file by adding the size of every Disk section (Disk0, Disk1...), deleting the sections and making a Disk0 section with the Size value being the result of the size sums. Save the modified file
4. Rename Data.bin to install.wim (base.wim on earlier sets) and move it to the preload folder.
5. Start the laptop with the USB created previously.
6. Follow the steps shown to restore the laptop.

For using it on similar models, this involves modifying the WIM file. Steps will be put later.

### Desktops

#### 2001-2004(?)

1. Open the first disc ISO image in PowerISO or any ISO image editor.
2. Locate the SW BOM on the back of the computer or through the SMBIOS Type 1's Product Name (Compaq) or Serial Number (HP)
3. Open the "BLOCK.RIN" file in the first disc's ISO Image and change it to the located SW BOM (e.g. NA510 = NA51). Save it somewhere.
4. Save the modified ISO image and burn it on a CD/DVD disc.
5. Start the PC with the modified first disc.
6. Follow the steps shown to restore the computer.

#### 2005-2007, 2007-2016 (UC)

Currently, this involves modifying, not only the RIN, but also the Build ID file. Steps will be put later. Starting with the Windows 10 sets, HP’s desktop sets has been suffered the same fate as the lsptop sets.