Recovery Partition

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HiddenTalent

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Hi All,

On an HP laptop, there was a recovery partition. What is standard outside of the HP recovery setup for creating a bootable backup if something happened to a system.

I mean, I can burn an image to disc using the built in Windows 7 utility, but what is the best method?

I'd like to be able to supply this information at a consumer level versus prosumer if that makes sense.
 
Do you mean you want to activate the hp recovery partition or do you want a program that does the same job as the hp recovery ?
 
I just imaged the main partition to a new drive and would like a recovery partition.

The HP recovery software is $15. If I can get something for free that will do the same, it would be great!
 
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voyagerfan99 said:
Just image all the partitions from the old drive to the new drive.
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Macrium wouldn't allow me to image the recovery partition to the a slightly larger partition I made on the drive. When I made the original image, I took two separate images (one of each partition). If I had known better at that time I would have just imaged the whole drive, but hindsight. I will order the HP recovery disc and just go from there. It would take 3 hours to reimage the old drive, and another 2 to copy the whole image to the new drive. My time is worth more than $15 so I'll just do that. Heck, maybe I can use those discs in the future.
 
Yes they are unfortunately. If you try using the recovery cd's on a different model the recovery process will error out toward the end. I ordered the wrong set of cd's for a laptop, thinking that as long as the series was right it wouldn't matter what the last digits was. Unfortunately it wouldn't work, ordered the correct cd for the specific model of laptop he had and the install went perfect.
 
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