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Can you install windows 8 to a drive that contains the recovery partition it is installing from ?

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  • Recovery Partition
  • Windows 8
  • SSD
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October 16, 2014 10:30:08 AM

I'm trying to upgrade to an SSD and my 7 tries at cloning didn't succeed, so I'm gonna install windows 8 from scratch using the recovery partition. I don't have a 16GB USB stick to put the recovery partition on, but I can put it on the SSD. question is, will it actually work ?

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October 16, 2014 10:36:10 AM

should be possible though I never really tried it. I usually create recovery media and then delete the recovery partition.
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October 16, 2014 10:38:48 AM

I think you are using terms incorrectly.

By recovery partition do you mean a duplicate image of the hard drive, or do you mena the installation program for windows?
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October 16, 2014 10:57:02 AM

good point. recovery partition refers to the "invisible" partition on the hard drive usually as it came from the factory, which you can boot up and use to return the other, normal partition to the factory new state (or do various repair and recovery operations). on an SSD where space is limited, the 20GB or so the recovery partition usually takes up is a lot. when booting to the "normal" partition where windows is installed, you can't see the recovery partition from File Explorer (though you can from the Disk Storage applet in Manage Computer).
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October 17, 2014 9:20:04 AM

bliq said:
good point. recovery partition refers to the "invisible" partition on the hard drive usually as it came from the factory, which you can boot up and use to return the other, normal partition to the factory new state (or do various repair and recovery operations). on an SSD where space is limited, the 20GB or so the recovery partition usually takes up is a lot. when booting to the "normal" partition where windows is installed, you can't see the recovery partition from File Explorer (though you can from the Disk Storage applet in Manage Computer).


The question was if it is possible to install or restore windows on a drive that contains the partition with the recovery or installation stuff or if it will fail.
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October 17, 2014 4:08:22 PM

the answer is yes. if you have a drive with a factory recovery partition, you can boot off that partition to reinstall Windows to the main partition on the same drive.
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