HP ProBook 4540s Dual Boot Recovery Partition

[justein230]

Hi all,

This is not my laptop, so this needs to work perfectly before I install it on the stock hard drive. The owner would like to dual boot Windows 7 Pro (OEM license that came with the laptop) and OS X Mavericks latest version. However, the owner is worried about losing the recovery partition once the drive is formatted. How would I be able to have the OS X install, the Windows 7 install, and the HP Recovery partition? He is open to the recovery partition being on external media. Thanks in advance for the replies.

 

[rezarebel]

Enable Intel Virtualization Technology in the BIOS...

 

[justein230]

Enable Intel Virtualization Technology in the BIOS...

I would like to dual boot. Also that causes errors in OS X.

 

[RehabMan]

Hi all,

This is not my laptop, so this needs to work perfectly before I install it on the stock hard drive. The owner would like to dual boot Windows 7 Pro (OEM license that came with the laptop) and OS X Mavericks latest version. However, the owner is worried about losing the recovery partition once the drive is formatted. How would I be able to have the OS X install, the Windows 7 install, and the HP Recovery partition? He is open to the recovery partition being on external media. Thanks in advance for the replies.

My advice: Order recovery media from HP. Forget about making the Recovery partition work in an OS X/Windows dual-boot environment.

 

[justein230]

My advice: Order recovery media from HP. Forget about making the Recovery partition work in an OS X/Windows dual-boot environment.

Just spent 40 minutes on phone with HP, said that it has to format your hard drive completely, which, of course, is bad. I have a legal copy of Windows 7 Enterprise that I can load on to it, and I will just download the drivers off of HP's website (their driver support is great! And they also have Windows 7 Enterprise support on all the drivers, the only one that didn't work was the newest version of the webcam driver, so I used an old one). This way, recovery is not necessary, and the laptop will function just fine.