On 12/20/2014 2:23 PM, Johnny wrote:


In one of the messages I read, there was a link provided to a patch
that would restore the missing Recovery Manager, but I couldn't find it.

I'm going to keep looking for that patch for awhile, and if I can't
find it, I will probably just use that Windows 7 iso that Sir George
recommended. It's only 2.4 GB.

Only works if you have an existing recovery partition...which you may not.
I can't find the link, but the text sez:
As anybody who has ever worked on a plethora of HP computers (and needed
to set them up for clients) knows HP only allows for the creation of one
set of Recovery Discs per computer. This means that if you’ve lost yours
or if they became damaged you’re pretty much screwed.

Well until now.

This tweak has been on the net (whispered) for some time but I give it
to you in the form of a handy batch file. What this file will do is
delete the following two files:

c:\windows\sminst\hpcd.sys
d:\hpcd.sys

What that will do is reset the counter that HP computers use to track
Recovery Disc creation. You’ll be able to create recovery discs over and
over again. Awesome right?

Another link says there are two instances of hpcd.sys and both need to
be removed.