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Lost my Recovery D:\ data on hard drive after removing Startup Recovery Mgr

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I mistakenly deactivated Startup Recovery Manager to free up hard drive space. Allowed software to run all night to enlarge the partition. My HP has a d:\ recovery partition -- which Acronis could not write back to. Error messages later, the partition is now "empty", I have no recovery software in the d:\ partition, and Acronis can no longer "see" my backup on the usb-connected raid drive (drive k:\ -- which it overwrote with an incremental backup! argh!).

The log file shows that Acronis could not write to the hard disk --
"Error ... Failed to write data on the disk|Failed to write to the sector nnnn". I told it to ignore the message, and all HP recovery files/data are now "gone".

Acronis now wants me to create a Startup Recovery Mgr -- which I'll do after my hard drive is restored again.

Running Vista on HP desktop, have a cavalry backup, acronis v.9 home

**How can I get my original d:\ recovery partition data back?

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Hello Purple Collie,

Thank you for using [[http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ | Acronis True Image]]

I would recommend you to recover the archive under Acronis Bootable Rescue Media based on ISOLINUX. We have implemented the possibility to download the appropriate ISO file after logging in to your account (the serial number should be registered). Please log in to your account, go to the Registered products section -> Bootable media. Download the file.

You can find more information on how to burn an ISO image to a CD here and here 

1. Create Acronis Booting Rescue Media.

2. Insert Acronis Booting Rescue Media and reboot your computer. Please check in your computer's BIOS if booting from removable media (CD-ROM) is allowed and switched on.

3. Recover the archive.

Thank you.

Following up -- did this magical procedure listed by Oleg recover and reinstall a working HP_RECOVERY partition and the unique HP MBR that accesses it during boot using F10/F11 keys?

Thanks. Awaiting "closure" on this problem listing.

Peter Blaise