HP Recovery Partition (Move to new drive)

Tonk · 04-11-2009, 06:42 PM

Inside my laptop i have a 250gb WD drive atm and i am looking to see how easy it would be to exchange that one out for a larger 320gb Seagate drive the movment of the physical drive is no problem for me however the problems lie in the recovery partition on the 250gb drive i was wondering how easy it would be to copy this partition to the new 320gb drive and allow it to still keep its boot capabilitys ... the 320gb will stay in in 2 partitions ( C: everything OS data etc ... and D: Recovery) so that shouldnt pose any problems for the primary partiton areas etc ...

any and all help is greatly apreciated thanks

**TriggerFinger** · 04-11-2009, 09:18 PM

I have not tried this but I believe you can copy that partition. I suggest you create a recovery disc first (just in case) and back up all your files. Then try cloning with Acronis or something like this: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11379_7-6445033-1.html

Tonk · 04-12-2009, 11:07 AM

That all seems simple enough however that only talks about copying the drive completly and i dont need to do that i just want to copy the recovery partiton which i believe has to be located on track 0 of the hard drive for it to boot properly and i dont know if that method will work correctly does anyone know from previouse experiance on what to do ??

ghost0001 · 04-12-2009, 12:06 PM

have you tried norton ghost? you can clone a whole HDD with that utility.

**TriggerFinger** · 04-12-2009, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Tonk

That all seems simple enough however that only talks about copying the drive completly and i dont need to do that i just want to copy the recovery partiton which i believe has to be located on track 0 of the hard drive for it to boot properly and i dont know if that method will work correctly does anyone know from previouse experiance on what to do ??

Yeah I think I understand what you mean. I suggest you try it with Ghost or Acronis or the one on the link. You will have nothing to lose as you are moving the image into a new drive. Just make sure you have a backup should a mishap happen to your old drive.

04-11-2009, 06:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tonk Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 133 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 32bit, Windows XP Professional SP3 32bit, Windows XP Home SP3 32bit	HP Recovery Partition (Move to new drive) Inside my laptop i have a 250gb WD drive atm and i am looking to see how easy it would be to exchange that one out for a larger 320gb Seagate drive the movment of the physical drive is no problem for me however the problems lie in the recovery partition on the 250gb drive i was wondering how easy it would be to copy this partition to the new 320gb drive and allow it to still keep its boot capabilitys ... the 320gb will stay in in 2 partitions ( C: everything OS data etc ... and D: Recovery) so that shouldnt pose any problems for the primary partiton areas etc ... any and all help is greatly apreciated thanks

04-11-2009, 09:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,853 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: HP Recovery Partition (Move to new drive) I have not tried this but I believe you can copy that partition. I suggest you create a recovery disc first (just in case) and back up all your files. Then try cloning with Acronis or something like this: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11379_7-6445033-1.html __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

04-12-2009, 11:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tonk Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 133 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 32bit, Windows XP Professional SP3 32bit, Windows XP Home SP3 32bit	Re: HP Recovery Partition (Move to new drive) That all seems simple enough however that only talks about copying the drive completly and i dont need to do that i just want to copy the recovery partiton which i believe has to be located on track 0 of the hard drive for it to boot properly and i dont know if that method will work correctly does anyone know from previouse experiance on what to do ??

04-12-2009, 12:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
ghost0001 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 12 OS: Vista Home Premium 64 bit	Re: HP Recovery Partition (Move to new drive) have you tried norton ghost? you can clone a whole HDD with that utility. Last edited by ghost0001; 04-12-2009 at 12:07 PM.