Hey guys....

This is my 1rst post, so excuse me if it is the wrong place. I have a HP Pavilion 734n and I want to reformat the hard drive. I did not get a Recovery CD with it, instead they partitioned a section of my drive(Labeled D) as the recovery section. I was just curious had to go about using this partion to reformat my main C drive. Is it just going to be hit F10 to enter the screen during startup. If anyone has any information or has done this before, please let me know. I appreciate any advise. Below is my computer stats. Thanks in advance.





Running Windows XP Home SP2
HP Pavilion 734n
Athlon XP 2400+
1023 Total Ram
NVidia GeForce Fx5500
Open Gl 5.1.26
MoBo: Pheonix Technologies Ltd.
KMZ66-8235
Sim Bios: 2.3
Bios Size: 512kb

 

Hi,
Try this link from HP. There online support is usually pretty good.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...cc=us&dlc=en&product=296682&rule=3367&lang=en

 

You can start the Recovery from F10 or even in Windows itself via PC Help and Tools in All Programs. Once it begins choose a Destructive Recovery and it will do it itself.