I have just recently got a HP Pavilion dv6-1315tx computer second hand. It comes with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. The first thing I wanted to do was to create a recovery disk,but it seems as if the previous owner has already created a set. I am from Sri Lanka so I cannot order a Recovery Kit from HP. Their support page is confusing.
After doing a lot of research, I deleted files such as hpdrcu.dat from the recovery partition as well as another location. I also searched for Rebecca.dat but to no avail on my whole system, but still it gives the same error.
I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me a method to create a new set of disks.
Answer
After many months of searching I finally found away. I give credit to https://sites.google.com/site/mybyways/info/hp-cyberlink .
My simplified method is first to show hidden files and folders, then find the following files:
- C:\ProgramData\Hewlett-Packard\Recovery\hpdrcu.prc
- C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Recovery\hpdrcu.sys
- D:\hpdrcu.prc
Add .bak to the ends of each of these files eg: hpdrcu.prc.bak
I do not know whether this will work on all computers, but it certainly works on mine.
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