HP recovery manager

I recently tried to downgrade my HP PC from the intergrated Vista to my old XP pro, but I quickly realized that they weren't made to work together. So I replaced my whole vista partition with the windows XP and then, altough it worked great, I couldn't find any drivers for my hardware in windows XP, I tried every driver that were remotly linked to my chipset and my network card but none of them worked.

Now I'm trying to make some recovery disks, but I don't have HP's recovery manager anymore. I still have the partition but I can't boot from the BIOS because XP rewrote the MBR and removed that ability. Does anyone know where I could get the program or any way to boot from it?

 

To go the HP Recovery Manager route I think your only option would be to contact HP themselves. They do have a site for Drivers/Software which might help http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html Hope that helps hereticmoox1 and Welcome to Major Geeks

 

As BC Grey says, HP support should help.
If you get stuck, and cannot find what you are after, partedit32 will enable you to see into the hidden partition , and its free and I downloaded the exe version(zip) from the only sources I have managed to get is
http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/tool/FreeTools.html
Scroll down to almost the bottom of the page
to Partition Table and
Boot Record Editor by PowerQuest
GUI version:
Download PTEDIT32 (Win9x/NT/Win2000/XP)
The other place was
http://laptop-support.net/