Creating 2nd recovery disk set HP Pavilion dv6-1315tx

Question

I have just recently got a HP Pavilion dv6-1315tx computer second hand. It comes with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. The first thing I wanted to do was to create a recovery disk,but it seems as if the previous owner has already created a set. I am from Sri Lanka so I cannot order a Recovery Kit from HP. Their support page is confusing.

After doing a lot of research, I deleted files such as hpdrcu.dat from the recovery partition as well as another location. I also searched for Rebecca.dat but to no avail on my whole system, but still it gives the same error.

I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me a method to create a new set of disks.

Solution 1

After many months of searching I finally found away. I give credit to https://sites.google.com/site/mybyways/info/hp-cyberlink .

My simplified method is first to show hidden files and folders, then find the following files:

1. C:\ProgramData\Hewlett-Packard\Recovery\hpdrcu.prc
2. C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Recovery\hpdrcu.sys
3. D:\hpdrcu.prc

Add .bak to the ends of each of these files eg: hpdrcu.prc.bak

I do not know whether this will work on all computers, but it certainly works on mine.

Solution 2

It worked for me by deleting 2 files. No need to reboot:

• D:\hpdrcu.prc
• C:\ProgramData\Hewlett-Packard\Recovery\hpdrcu.prc

Solution 3

Unfortunately, You can create only one set of Recovery Discs as mentioned here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=bph07143

But You can ask your previous owner for Recovery Discs and clone them.

Comments

[DavidPostill]

This duplicates another answer and adds no new content. Please don't post an answer unless you actually have something new to contribute.

[Nauf_M]

c:\Users\All Users is symlink to C:\ProgramData. That wasn't me who gave you -1 though.

[Nauf_M]

in my case, there also was %SystemRoot%\System32\Rebecca.dat. Until it removed, HP Recovery Media Creator declined to start.