Hello,

My HP dv6-1045ee works fine. But I have a problem.
When I press F11 at startup it shows the error message :
"A disk read error occured
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart "
Once I press F11, the system shows that error message and becomes unbootable. To make it bootable again, I use my Bootable USB Stick with MBRWIZD.exe on it to set the C:\ partition as active again.

So what exactly is the function of F11?

If F11's function is to set the recovery partition as ACTIVE, then it's working properly. It DOES makes the D:\ partition active instead of C:\ .....which I can do from windows itself (from Computer manager).

Does this mean that the recovery partition needs some necessary booting files? or that it's location in the partition table is wrong? or that its BCD file is corrupted?or it's all about a special MBR created by the HP technicians?

Just to be specific:

* The F8 Advance boot loader option CAN access the recovery partition and apply a full recovery from there. [I believe that this depends totally on the BCD file in D:\.....Right?]
* The F11 key makes the recovery partition ACTIVE and shows the above error message.
* Activating the D:\ partition (recovery partition) from windows results in the same error message.

I need to know the suspect here......and then I'll try to fix the problem..

And please if somebody can explain (or post a link) how does an Active partition -that has VISTA OS on it- boots. And what files are needed? I think that it's relevant to the problem.


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