How do I use the recovery partition from one hard drive on a new replacement hard drive?

Published July 7, 2010

Question by Daniel H: How do I use the recovery partition from one hard drive on a new replacement hard drive?
I have a strange issue. I have a Compaq laptop, and when I test the hard drive through the BIOS, it is returning a failure error. The recovery partition is on this hard drive, and the drive is still accessible and usable for the most part. How can I replace the hard drive and still use the recovery partition to reload Windows?

Best answer:

Answer by annorax64
You can’t.

Your best bet is to try to save the recovery partition to CD or DVD. I’m thinking that there is probably directions in the documentation that came with the laptop on how you were supposed to create a recovery CD from the recovery partition in case this very situation occurred. It may be too late now though.

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