Hi. I have a HP desktop with 2TB HDD. my HDD has two partitions: Drive-C that is windows and about 1TB of my personal data and Drive-D which is HP Windows 10 Recovery Partition. I've got a 240 GB SSD and I"d like to transfer my recovery partition to that and remove my old HDD as if when I turn my PC on, it's the first time I'm setting up windows 10 on that using recovery partition and put aside old HDD just for future storage.it seems it's not enough just to clone recovery partition to SSD and make it bootable. I appreciate it if you could help me how to do that. thanks ...
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Cloning the Recovery partition to its own drive is probably not what you want to do.
Almost certainly there is a function to use that Recovery partition, to write the thing to a bootable USB.
Look in the user manual for how to invoke this.
Almost certainly there is a function to use that Recovery partition, to write the thing to a bootable USB.
Look in the user manual for how to invoke this.
Hi there. thanks for replying to my post. you suggested me to install a new fresh windows 10 from scratch on the SSD. I could have done it before if I wanted to do so, but by doing this, I would loose all hardware drivers included in my windows 10 recovery partition and it's not reasonable to ignore that. besides, when I have a windows 10 recovery partition installed on my HDD by HP from the very first day I bought this PC , why wouldn't I have been able to use it to setup a fresh windows 10 re-install on that ?! I do believe there must be some tricky ways like using a third-party partitioning software such as EASEUS or AOMEI or ... to transfer the recovery partition to the SSD and make it bootable and pull out the HDD completely from the system and run the windows recovery program intended by HP to setup the windows 10 AS IF it's the first time I'm turning my PC on once I bought it as a brand new computer. I'm just confused about the process to follow and the steps I have to take ...I appreciate it if you could give me any solution about this. thanks.
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The Factory Recovery partition exists because the manufacturer has to give you a way to 'recover' the system.
Obviously, if the actual drive failed, you could not do this.
That is why there is a function for you to create a USB od DVD from that Factory Recovery partition.
When you first started using it, the system recommended that you do this, and the specific procedures are in the user manual.
Doing it that way is far better than sucking up a whole SSD for that.
Obviously, if the actual drive failed, you could not do this.
That is why there is a function for you to create a USB od DVD from that Factory Recovery partition.
When you first started using it, the system recommended that you do this, and the specific procedures are in the user manual.
Doing it that way is far better than sucking up a whole SSD for that.
Hi there. my HDD has no problems and totally intact with drives C (OS) and D (recovery) and its model is HP Slimline Desktop 260-p109 (Core i3-6100T 12GB Ram 2TB H.D.D). the reason that I'm about to replace the HDD with SSD is to increase the speed of the system . but any time I want to make a Recovery Drive using current windows, it gives me just some error messages that "missing some files !" and when I go to Computer->manage->Disk management , I can see Drive D (Recovery) with no problem ...besides, EASEUS program can transfer that partition to SSD but I don't know how to make it bootable and transfer windows boot manager ...
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Right.
And again, putting that Recovery partition on the SSD is not what you want to do.
Cloning that Recovery partition to an SSD will require that you have *2* SSD's. One for this recovery thing, and one to actually be the boot drive.
Your end game is to have the OS on the SSD, correct?
Do you want a clean blank OS install, or do you want to attempt to clone the existing OS to the new SSD?
I,m not intended to transfer my current existing OS to new SSD. I'm trying to have that "16 GB Recovery Partition Drive D" on new SSD and then install a clean blank OS on that . imagine I've bought this computer with a 240 GB SSD that has a blank Drive C partition and a 16 GB Drive D Recovery partition and when I turn it on, it is like the first time I'm setting up my device with windows 10 Pre-installed Recovery partition . just that...
exactly like the same I had on my HDD ...
exactly like the same I had on my HDD ...
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Right.
You can't have that 'recovery partition' on that SSD, and also install the OS to that same SSD.
What is the specific model number of this system, and we can almost certainly discover how HP intended you to do this.
as I mentioned, its model is HP Slimline Desktop 260-p109 (Core i3-6100T 12GB Ram 2TB H.D.D) and the first time that I got this , there was no OS on that but a recovery partition Drive D and once I turned it on, a screen appeared asking me to install windows 10 for the first time and after restarting , I've always had both my OS on Drive C and recovery Data on Drive D. so how did I have that recovery (D
partition and blank (no OS) (C partition from the first day ?!
why can't I have the same two Drives (C: Blank) and (D: Recovery) on new SSD now and setting up windows again like the first day ?!
partition and blank (no OS) (C partition from the first day ?!why can't I have the same two Drives (C: Blank) and (D: Recovery) on new SSD now and setting up windows again like the first day ?!
by the way, it's not my only HP device. a few years ago I bought a HP G-62 Laptop having a 320 GB HDD with exactly the same partitions and during these years , I've had to re-install my windows 7 a couple of times by pressing a specific key to re-install the windows from recovery partition and there was no problem ...
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OK...
Turning it on for the first time did NOT "install" the OS on a bare partition.
You saw a "Hi"...'We're getting things set up for you'....etc.
That is typical for a new account. Not a whole new install.
Anyway...
From your user manual, pg 27:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05572131
You'll need a 32GB USB stick for this.
Creating recovery media and backups
Generally, you use the "HP Recovery Manager to create HP Recovery media"
Or,
the Windows tools, listed on pg 28.
Again...the OS was already on that drive, as well as the Recovery partition.
What you saw was simply setting up your new account, and the OOBE (Out Of Box Experience)
Turning it on for the first time did NOT "install" the OS on a bare partition.
You saw a "Hi"...'We're getting things set up for you'....etc.
That is typical for a new account. Not a whole new install.
Anyway...
From your user manual, pg 27:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05572131
You'll need a 32GB USB stick for this.
Creating recovery media and backups
Generally, you use the "HP Recovery Manager to create HP Recovery media"
Or,
the Windows tools, listed on pg 28.
Again...the OS was already on that drive, as well as the Recovery partition.
What you saw was simply setting up your new account, and the OOBE (Out Of Box Experience)
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As a lot of people have already confirmed... HP Built your computer to allow you to recover "this" hard drive... Your "recovery" hard drive is basically a Windows installation Media... that you can use to "reset/restore" your original Windows install files... it's not a installation media to use to "Create" a new Drive.
Your "drivers" won't move to your new Windows installation even if you used your "recover" drive.. it's not how it works... Windows Installation uses it's own drivers to install and then allows you to "install" 3rd party drivers after the fact...
USAfret is right... best bet is to create your own Bootable media...
then Unplug old hard drive and plug in new hard drive and reinstall Windows.
Your "drivers" won't move to your new Windows installation even if you used your "recover" drive.. it's not how it works... Windows Installation uses it's own drivers to install and then allows you to "install" 3rd party drivers after the fact...
USAfret is right... best bet is to create your own Bootable media...
then Unplug old hard drive and plug in new hard drive and reinstall Windows.
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