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Files locked in Hp_Recovery partition

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/files-locked-in-hp_recovery-partition.80062/

club_pranay
club_pranay Original post #1
Feb 11, 2008 at 12:07 AM
I am realy stuck with this now...
my HP pavilion went through a rough patch when i decided to give it a full system recovery.

now what i did wrong was, i saved all my documents in a folder and copied them to the HP_RECOVERY partition, thinking that i can restore them at a later stage.

Now that the recovery was done perfectly, i tried restoring my documents in the recovery partition. to my dissapointment, i found the folder as a "file" and whenever i click it it says..
*img216.imageshack.us/img216/3875/27564405an1.th.jpg
i copied the folder to a different location and tried to open it, but the problem remains. the file properties shows that the file is actualy a folder with a number of files inside it.
and if i search for my documents, everything shows up in the results page, but when i try to open it, it ways file cannot be found.

please help! this has taken me completely by surprise!
arun77574
Feb 11, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Try Finding the file in Command Prompt by specifying the file location. And then copy and paste it else where from recovery partiton using appropriate commands.
club_pranay
Feb 12, 2008 at 6:32 AM
tried that already.. but the "file" is locked on to read-only, hidden and system file attributes so it's invisible in command prompt

i am going to burn it in a cd and take it to another computer having XP, lets see what happens.