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So you want to reset your HP laptop, but you're looking for options to reset your HP laptop settings that don’t involve a restore disc. You're in luck. The HP laptops that are shipped with Windows 7 or later operating systems include a recovery partition, also known as an HP password reset disc. This basically performs the very same tasks as a restore disc. The name of the software you will commonly find installed in this recovery partition is HP Recovery Manager, which provides you with several features and functions.

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The HP recovery software allows you to reinstall the operating system on your laptop when it crashes or to back up any company files you might have to a different storage device before wiping out the entire hard drive. The process for resetting your HP laptop without a restore disc is as follows.

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The first step is to turn your HP laptop on. You can also restart it if it is already on. Once it begins the booting process, keep clicking the F11 key until the computer boots to Recovery Manager. That is the software you will use to reset your laptop.

System Recovery

In the Recovery Manager, there is a section labeled I Need Help Immediately. This section is to be found in the left pane of the Recovery Manager. In this section, select the System Recovery option and click the button labeled Back Up Your Files (Recommended) and then click Next.

Back up Files

You can now choose which types of files you would like to back up. Click on the boxes that appear to select them and then click Next. You should have an external hard drive ready which you will connect to the laptop for backing up. Alternatively, you can insert a blank disc into the optical disc drive in your laptop.

Select Drive

Once you have inserted the blank disc or connected the external hard drive, you should select the drive letter that represents it on the computer. This ensures that the files you have decided to back up will be backed up to that specific drive. Click Next.

Factory Settings

Now the backup process will start. This might take a while. Once it is done, you should click on Next. The Recovery Manager will then restore your HP laptop to its original state, or how it was when it was shipped.

Set up Windows

Click Finish to complete the process. You will now see a series of on-screen prompts that will guide you through the installation and setup of the Windows operating system. Follow them through to the end until you have set up Windows on your computer.

Tip

• In case you don’t want to back up your files, simply select the Recover Without Backing Up Your Files option and follow the directions on the screen.

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F11 System Recovery Not Working Problem

If the recovery partition in HP/Dell computer is deleted or overwritten somehow, you can’t access the recovery partition with F11 key. That means, the F11 system recovery not working problem occurs. On the other hand, you cannot boot up your computer and cannot do the system recovery.

How to get HP/Dell restore to factory settings or previous state when F11 doesn’t work?

F11 System Recovery Knowledge

For some brand computers, the manufacturer of these computers designs a special key or key combination to do their system recovery. As for Dell, HP or Lenovo computers (PCs, notebooks, desktops), the F11 key is the pivotal key to recover system to computer default settings when your computer corrupted due to hardware or software failure.

HP computer provides a built-in tool named HP Backup and Recovery Manager to recover your system to the original factory-shipped state, the recovery partition is needed. If your HP computer has some issues that you want to restore it to factory settings, turn on HP computer and immediately press the Esc key to display the Startup Menu, and then press F11 to access the HP system recovery.

Generally, Dell computers have a recovery partition that you can access to recover and restore your computer to factory settings. How to access Dell recovery partition? Boot your Dell computer, press Ctrl+F11 when the Dell logo appears, then follow the instructions to restore.

How to Solve F11 System Recovery Not Working Issue in Windows 7/8/10?

If your F11 key not working for system recovery, don’t worry, there are some solutions for you to fix F11 system recovery doesn’t work problem with the following 2 ways:

• Reinstall your Windows OS with the Windows Installation disc.

• Factory reset your computer with HP recovery disc (it will take 4-6 hours). You may need to backup data first.

Effective Preventive Measure - Backup Your Windows First

Compared with these two ways, backup your Windows system and recovery for HP/Dell computer is the ideal method. Luckily, you can backup system with AOMEI OneKey Recovery at ease and reset F11 as shortcut for system recovery in Windows 7/8/10.

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The detailed steps to solve F11 not working are listed below:

1. Click on OneKey System Backup on home console.

2. Choose Backup system to AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition(Recommended), and hit Next.

Tip: You could encrypt and compress the backup image with Backup Options.

3. Select an existing partition to allocate a required amount of free space (the free space should larger than the used space of system partition C: drive) for creating AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition, and click Start Backup>>.

Tip: The backup progress will automatically create an AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition, where a system backup image (suffix with .adi) is saved. This partition is hidden by default to prevent data from damaging.

4. After a few minutes, the system backup will be finished, showed like this. Then, click OK.

5. Click the Settings icon at the top right corner to set the F11 or A key as the shortcut to onekey system recovery, choose F11. Then the F11 system recovery not working problem will be solved easily and quickly.

Now, you can see these partitions created by AOMEI OneKey Recovery in Disk Management, like this:

Tips:

• For GPT disk, you will get two partitions: AOMEI (boot partition) and AOMEI Recovery Partition (contains system image file suffix with .adi), all these partitions are hidden by default.

• For MBR disk, you will get only one AOMEI Recovery Partition.

• This powerful software also applied to other brands computers, like HP, Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, HP and IBM, etc.

• The program supports all editions (32-bit and 64-bit) of Windows operating system, like Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server 2003/2008 (R2)/2012 (R2)/2016, SBS 2003/2008/2011, WHS 2011.

Now, you could use F11 key to restore your system to factory settings or previous state.

Another Effective Preventive Measure

As a matter of fact, you could create a system backup image with AOMEI Backupper Standard to external hard drive with your computer before problems occur.

If the system crashes or other unbootable issue shows up, create bootable media to boot your computer, and then use this backup image to restore your computer.

This way only applies to preparation before problems occur. Planning ahead is the best solution.

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Create System Backup Image:

1. On the main window of AOMEI Backupper Standard, select Backup, System Backup in turn.

2. Enter a proper Task Name into the box.

3. Choose the external hard drive as the destination to save the system image and click Next.

Tips: The program will select the system partition associated with system files automatically in the Step1.

4. Press Start Backup.

Restore Your Computer with the System Image:

1. Connect your external hard drive with your computer and boot up your computer with the bootable media created by AOMEI Backupper Standard. Then, click Select Task under the Restore tab.

2. Then choose a backup image and click Next to move on.

3. Tick Restore this system backup or Restore a partition in this system backup and click Next. After that, preview the result of restoring, click Start Restore.

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How long does the system recovery will take? It depends. Download video klip ungu jika itu yang terbaik mp4. If the system image file stored on SSD and restore to an SSD, the restore speed will between 80M/s~120M/s, others devices may be slower.

Wait for a moment, the F11 system recovery not working problem will be solved. In addition, AOMEI Backupper Standard allows you to backup hard disk, backup Dell/HP partition, restore partition, etc. as well as split, comment, encrypt backup image, and merge backup images and many more features.

For advanced users, you can try AOMEI Backupper Professional to enable universal restore, clone system, restore to dissimilar hardware computer, etc.