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by: ahmad2080 April 20, 2009 8:16 AM PDT

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What does F11 hotkey do?

by ahmad2080 - 4/20/09 8:16 AM

At booting, there an option to prees the ESC key. It opens a menu with several F** options...F10 for BIOS, F11 for system recovery,.....etc.

I need to know how can pressing F11 launch the recovery manager...
I know that it adds the 80h flag to the recovery partition to set it active...

Does it have any other functions?

I'm asking because once I press F11 the system shows an error message

"A disk read error occured
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

and becomes unbootable. To make it bootable again, I use my Bootable USB Stick with MBRWIZD.exe on it to set the C:\ partition as active again.

So does that mean that my recovery partition needs some necessary booting files?
or the F11 is corrupted?

Thanks in advance.


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Since you told us . . .

by Coryphaeus - 4/20/09 11:32 AM

In Reply to: What does F11 hotkey do? by ahmad2080

nothing about your system . . . Make, model, OS.


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sorry

by ahmad2080 - 4/21/09 5:21 AM

In Reply to: Since you told us . . . by Coryphaeus

I'm sorry for that....

My notebook is HP dv6-1045ee


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Read

by samkh - 4/20/09 11:51 AM

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http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01443343&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN


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Thanks

by ahmad2080 - 4/21/09 5:23 AM

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Thank you for the link.....but it's not so helpful in my case...


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Don't dismiss that so fast.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 4/21/09 5:29 AM

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It documents what should happen. Let's say you talk to someone about fixing this and they tell you that it's supposed to do what its doing. You need this!


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Clone time.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 4/20/09 12:01 PM

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If this was my machine I'd consider cloning it ASAP until I'm sure my recovery CDs are available.


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Nope

by ahmad2080 - 4/21/09 5:28 AM

In Reply to: Clone time. by R. Proffitt Moderator

I just want to know the real function of F11...
and needed files for the recovery partition to boot..
Cloning? good idea but I don't like it so much....Thanks.
BTW, my OS is VISTA....


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I appears you don't want to know!

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 4/21/09 5:31 AM

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Just above you tell someone "it didn't help."

The document did tell "I just want to know the real function of F11..."

I consider this case closed.
Bob


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