HP recovery discs - additional copies
 

HP laptops only permit 1 copy of their recovery discs - This procedure allows more to be made if original discs are lost or damaged.


1. Download Free Commander

2. Open D:\ Drive in Free Commander, assuming d is the recovery partition on your hp laptop computer

3. Find and Delete a file named HPCD.SYS in D:\ drive root folder . In newer HP systems, the fine name is hpdrcu.prc and its present in three locations. Search and delete hpdrcu.prc.

4. Navigate to the windows folder at C:\Windows\SMINST and delete another file with the same name HPCD.SYS

5. That’s it done you can now create new sets of recovery CDs or DVDs