Reset HP Recovery CD DVD limit

By jldurham6,

  Filed under: Commands & Scripts, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft OS
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Follow the procedure to create more than one set of recovery CDs

1. Download free Commander_setup_

2. Open D:\ Drive in Free Commander, assuming d is the recovery partition on your hp laptop computer

3. Find and Delete a file named HPCD.SYS in D:\ drive root folder . In newer HP systems, the fine name is hpdrcu.prc and its present in three locations. Search and delete hpdrcu.prc.

4. Navigate to the windows folder at C:\Windows\SMINST and delete another file with the same name HPCD.SYS

5. That’s it done you can now create new sets of recovery CDs or DVDs