{"id":4689,"date":"2021-11-11T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=4689"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T13:07:23","slug":"compaq-cq50-factory-restore-back-to-vista","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/compaq-cq50-factory-restore-back-to-vista\/5246.html","title":{"rendered":"Compaq CQ50 Factory Restore, Back To Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a Compaq CQ50 laptop that was originally installed with Vista. Last winter I upgraded to Windows 7 (upgrade install, not fresh) and I want to go back to Vista as I can&#8217;t fix the following issues: usb randomly flakes out, HDMI output doesn&#8217;t recognize my projector or monitor (it did on Vista), Windows 7 doesn&#8217;t auto refresh (requiring F5 hits constantly) and a few other niggles. Others with this laptop have complained of the same, no amount of updating has rectified these issues. I DO NOT have any recovery discs (my bad). However there is a recovery partition. I should be able to hit F11 on startup and restore the computer to factory settings, HP advised me this is only possible if I didn&#8217;t change the OS (it only works under Vista). Brilliant. I&#8217;m in Korea and don&#8217;t wanna pay to have the discs sent to me including shipping and waiting for them, it&#8217;s not cheap to send out to this neck of the woods!<\/p>\n<p>How can I load the recovery partition and return it to the factory Vista settings? The recovery drive is D but it doesn&#8217;t appear to be active and I can&#8217;t access it in Windows 7 (I just get a warning not to tamper with it when I click on it).<\/p>\n<p>Can I revert back to the factory settings without leaving myself DOA from the recovery partition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":10},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}