Fortunately, after this third time reset of the first recovery, i go to F3 menu again then go to Troubleshoot menu, the 'MSI Recovery Manager' was there and it save my life. At this point, I'm nervous that I have remove something important when trying to reset it in the first attempt. Then i reset the laptop but then it jump right in repair attempt but can't solve anything, just gave me some description about the SrtTrail.txt. However, thing didn't go so well, the laptop stopped the resetting progress at 19% and said that 'There was error when resetting this PC'. At that time in the troubleshoot menu didn't have the option 'MSI Recovery Manager' then i had to choose 'Reset this PC' option then 'Remove everything'. At that time i tried pressing F3 when machine boot up for jumping in the Troubleshoot menu. Make the partition active by typing ‘ACTIVE’.The story start from a week ago, my laptop just suddenly contained a nasty virus that made me go factory reset it.Change the partition to NTFS by typing ‘SET ID=27 OVERRIDE’.Type ‘SELECT PARTITION n‘ (Where ‘n’ is the number representing the recovery partition identified from the previous step, in my case it was partition 1).Type ‘LIST PARTITION’ and take note of the partition you wish you make active, in most cases the first partition in the list will be your recovery partition.Type ‘SELECT DISK n‘ (In this case it was disk 0).

Type ‘LIST DISK’ this will display a list of hard disks installed on the machine.

Boot up using the Windows Vista Recovery CD.This method should be useful for ALL machines with recovery partitions… Thankfully, after hours of Googling and a lot of swearing and frustration I came across a method in an article. To cut a long story short, the EISA recovery partition was still on the hard drive but could not be accessed! To make matters worse I didn’t have the recovery DVDs for the laptop. By the way, if you are looking for Windows 7 (x86 & 圆4) & Windows Vista (x86 & 圆4) Recovery CD’s you can download them from a torrent here: (These are the disks I used for this job and they worked fine, no viruses).

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