The One Off Compaq – HP Recovery Disk Creator

Some major manufacturers build computers that contain a special recovery partition on the hard drive. In the past, some of the computers didn’t even ship with any disks, instead leaving it up to the user to create a set of media using a special recovery disk creator. The major downside was that this could be done only once for that computer.

However, for those people who haven’t yet created the recovery media set, but are being told that they’ve already made a set and no further disks can be created, there may be a solution.

This solution worked on a Compaq Presario 6000 series machine for which the owner didn’t have a set of media and was being stopped from creating one. After running the utility it was possible to create a recovery disk set. Great to see the Gateway procedure working on the Compaq system.

Please note that you are using this information at your own risk. We’re just putting up this solution because of it being so painful to find out there on the Internet. It is only lawful to create one set of recovery disk media – seems crazy but that is the state of the law as it stands.