I am also out of the country so can't mail my laptop to HP to have it fixed. Is there anyway I can change the active partition back to the C drive, this disabling the recovery partition? I read that it was possible to access disk manager from cmd prompt window, but I don't know how to access it since the F8 key won't work (makes just a bipping noise when pressed)? I don't have a recovery or installation CD as it didn't come with the laptop when I purchased it. Which of course leads back to the same message after te computer reboots. Then look at my picture that tells you what you are looking for. Burn that to a CD and boot the PC with that CD. Check that with the bootable CD of Partition Wizard. When I rebooted the computer it began showing: One reason could be because your system partition (the little 100MB partition) was deactivated. I then right clicked on the computer >manage> disk manager and made the recovery partition active. When I clicked on it it would just restart the computer without anything else happening. I wanted to restore my laptop to its factory settings but the Recovery Manager wouldn't work. I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 and run Windows Visa Home Edition.
