Messed up recovery partitions

[GothAmKing]

I have a Samsung series 5 laptop with 1TB HDD @ 5400 rpm. It had Recovery partitions which I copied onto an external drive,i.e, the WIM file. Now after performing a refresh of Windows 8, I'm not able to recover it. The Samsung Recovery Agent is not working neither can I get it to do a System restore which is also on my external HDD.

Please someone help me to recover from that WIM file.

Any help is highly appreciated.

 

[Dahak]

You could try this, you should be able to skip creating the image and just point to the samsung wim.

Usually the way the recovery partitions are setup there is boot information setup as well that has to be re-created.

Or see if samsung has a utility that can repair/restore the recovery partition. I know hp used to have something similar when it could not boot from it

 

[ninaholic37]

Why does re-installing Windows 8 mess up the recovery partition? Wouldn't you just need to wipe the Windows 8 partition(s) to re-install it? I've reinstalled Windows XP many times and it never messed up the recovery partition. Is this normal?

 

[GothAmKing]

You could try this, you should be able to skip creating the image and just point to the samsung wim.

Usually the way the recovery partitions are setup there is boot information setup as well that has to be re-created.

Or see if samsung has a utility that can repair/restore the recovery partition. I know hp used to have something similar when it could not boot from it

Thanks for the prompt answer.

I tried it but Refresh failed and my pc restarted.

I also tried making an iso of WinPE from AIK,but it shows some errors during booting.

If I go for Reset option,i.e,Remove everything and reinstall Windows, will it ask for a disk ??