Recovery Partition Cloning..

[Brado78]

Hey Guys, My mother's computer' hard drive has bad sectors popping up. I was wondering can i clone the Recovery partition to a new drive? or is it going to be very difficult and not worth the hassle?

thanks Gang

Brad :awe:

 

[pcgeek11]

You may be successful as long as the bad sectors do not get in the way.

I would image the entire drive using Macrium Reflect ( Free ) or the imaging software of your choice and then create a new hard drive with this image. This should preserve the recovery partition ability.

 

[VirtualLarry]

what OS? If it's Windows 7, and there's a sticker on the side of the case, then you can download and burn an ISO and re-install using the key on that sticker.

If it's Windows 8 or 8.1, you can use MS's site to download recovery media, and then re-install using that. (Should auto-detect the key in BIOS, if it's a branded OEM PC.)