have I ruined my repair partition?

[dbarton]

I have a Vista laptop that allowed me to hit f11 to get into a repair mode and reinstall Vista.
That exists on a partition.

I made a third partition and now have dual boot to Vista and Win7.

That f11 trick doesn't work anymore. The partition is still there.
Is there a simple way to get that back?

 

[Tarrant64]

You can try and reinstall the software that allows or creates that partition. HP has a recovery software cd that comes with it. Do you have something similar?

 

[dbarton]

I have no actual recovery disk.
It exists in that second partition that I used to access by hitting f11 on startup.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I think you probably messed with the boot manager

Use Linux and Grub to access it.

 

[pcgeek11]

It sounds like a DELL. If so go here:
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/

This can restore the F11 function.
pcgeek11

 

[dbarton]

It's a Compaq laptop.

 

[thedarkwolf]

After installing ubuntu mine just shows up in the grub menu

 

[RebateMonger]

Have you tried making a set of reccovery disks using the Windows software that Compaq/HP installs on its PCs?

 

[dbarton]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Have you tried making a set of reccovery disks using the Windows software that Compaq/HP installs on its PCs?

I don't recall seeing any. Will have a look.