Recovery partition is a portion of a disk drive that is set aside by the manufacturer to hold an image of operating system as it was shipped from the factory. Do not confuse with [partition-recovery].
Questions tagged [recovery-partition]
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How to delete the Recovery Partition in Windows 10?
I need to convert the disk containing my operating system to a dynamic disk (from a basic disk). Unfortunately there is no room on the disk to convert the drive from basic to dynamic.
Microsoft documents the problem, and notes the solution is to…
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What is this Recovery Partition for on a fresh installation of Windows?
I installed Windows 10 Preview on a fresh SSD and noticed that there is a tiny 450MB Recovery Partition at the end of C:
(Ignore the Extended partition containing F:, as I added that myself afterwards)
I'm pretty certain that no such partition…
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Restoring factory recovery partition (Samsung)
I have upgraded the HDD in a Samsung laptop and would like to restore the "Press F4 for recovery" partition.
My new disk has three partitions, System, Windows, and Recovery. I did a dd of the recovery partition from the old HDD to the new. I also…
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Can't remove recovery partition
My laptop originally came with Win 8.1, the 64Gb drive has a 15Gb recovery partition. I've since upgraded to Windows 10 so I don't think this recovery partition makes much sense - anyway I could do with the space!
This question guided me to the…
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Windows 10 update created a recovery partition - How to hide that partition?
There was a Windows 10 update which created (or made visible) a recovery partition in this PC. Since it is 449MB in size and only 35,8MB are free, every few minutes I get a warning that it is low on disk space. Now I found this: Disable the low disk…
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Windows 8.1 - Why are there multiple recovery partitions in the system?
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
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Partition 1 System 500 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 OEM 40 MB 501 MB
Partition 3 Reserved …
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Windows 8 recovery partition on main hard drive
I've recently been having a lot of trouble with my current laptop which has caused me to reinstall my operating system several times, and I'm getting sick of always burning installation disks or creating bootable thumb drives. This time, I would…
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Updating recovery partition in OS X El Capitan
The story
I use MacBook Pro from 2012. By default, the recovery partition is OS X Lion (10.7). It is pretty cumbersome to revert back to Lion and then to El Capitan when doing any reinstall, so here comes my question...
The question
How to update…
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Add recovery partition to advance boot menu options
I want to add a WinPE automated recovery partition to a computer, can this boot option be added to "Advanced boot options"? (Like where Safe mode options are).
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Samsung Recovery Solution - create a custom recovery partition
I've got a Samsung notebook with Samsung Recovery Solution installed. It can create a recovery images for later system restore.
The notebook has a service (factory) hidden partition, which can be used to do a system restore (F4 during boot). I…
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How to replace the laptop HDD but preserve the recovery partition?
I need to replace the HDD from one laptop, but the goal is to preserve the recovery partition, thus allowing me to re-install windows at any given time, just like if it was the original HDD.
I've tried to copy the files to the new HDD after creating…
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Is there a way to backup the Windows recovery partition or recreate it on a Sony Vaio laptop?
My friend got a Sony Vaio laptop. Soon, I will install him Linux. But I want to back up the Windows 7's recovery partition that came pre-installed.
But on laptop, normally, when we boot up, they ask to press Fx (where x is a number I don't know,…
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Restore deleted Windows 8.1 recovery partition
I selected the option to create a recovery drive in Windows and then deleted the recovery partition using the option provided (see screenshot). Now I want to restore the partition exactly as it was before so it is automatically used if I want to…
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Restoring Windows 8 to factory state, without deleting secondary partition
I have a 3-months old Dell laptop, which I need to do a factory reset for, using the recovery partition.
Since I don't have an external HDD available, in order to backup everything I needed (roughly 95 GB), I shrunk my C drive by 100 GB and created…
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How to re-install Windows 8 for ASUS Ultrabook
I bought a S550CM Ultrabook from ASUS a few weeks ago. I tried to resize the partitions but it seems that I screwed up something. Now I can't boot anymore nor use the recovery process / "reset to factory settings" options. My best bet at this point…
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