How do I disable HP recovery via kbox scripting
We have several users in our organization who don't understand that "restore to a previous state" isn't necessarily a good thing to do when their pc crashes. We have HP computers with a recovery partition, but the problem is that the users inadvertantly boot to this and "recover" their system, thereby wiping out all of the software and settings we have installed on their systems.
Does anyone know of a script we can use through kbox that will disable this feature so this is no longer an option when thier system crashes?
Any help or insight is appreciated.
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I believe that is a bios level setting.
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Compaq-Elite-Pro/Disable-Hide-Press-F11-for-Recovery-at-start-up/td-p/1103380
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This can be automated I'd think. There are HP tools out there that should allow you to create a script to change those settings. HP Client Management Interface (CMI) maybe? - Ben M 11 years ago
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Thanks Ben, I'll take a look at this as well. - Strangeronfire 11 years ago
Could you just remove that partition entirely?
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Of course, however I'm looking for a way to push this out to multiple users instead of having to go to each machine and physically do a diskpart command. - Strangeronfire 11 years ago
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if they are all the same you can run a k2000 script to boot and run a diskpart and reboot. You also should be able to do that via a k1000 script that calls diskpart with /s config parameter to delete that one - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
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Thank you. I didn't realize you could run a diskpart command in kbox. I'll do some research and see if I can throw a script together. - Strangeronfire 11 years ago
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Yea, that was my thought. Though, deploying that kind of script can be playing with fire. Make sure it works like you think before you deploy it :). I think I'd recommend looking into SMal's answer and saving this as your last resort. - Ben M 11 years ago
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Yup, if any have a different partition layout you can nuke the wrong partition and delete the OS - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
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Yea, a mistake here would not be good. Thankfully they are all the same as they were built from the same base system image. - Strangeronfire 11 years ago
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Yea, I've got this mental picture of a ticked off administrator who hasn't backed up his hard drive since the days when MySpace was king. - Ben M 11 years ago
