Hp Envy Recovery Partition

[Francesca Cruiz]

Thelaptop has a 1TB HDD that had massive bad sectors in the C: partition. I bought a 500GB SSD, copied the non-damaged other partitions to it, and am trying to access the recovery partition that I copied to restore the computer on the new SSD. Encountered a plethora of issues trying this, with as result, computer still not booting into the recovery partition, and still not working.

I don't have recovery media for this laptop, thought the recovery partition would be enough for this, it seems UEFI and .wim files made it harder than this used to be.

Hi Mark,

If hard drive failed recovery partition gets corrupted and is rendered useless anymore. Bad sectors necessarily need not be present in recovery partition alone to make it useless. It can be anywhere, but it would affect recovery partition.

Have you done System Diagnostics testing from BIOS/UEFI to tests the hard drive? Did it give fail?

If you try cloning from a failing HDD to SSD, you're going to clone rendered useless recovery partition to SSD too. So that is not going to work at all. You shouldn't have copied recovery partition at all.

That is why all the HP Experts and volunteers here suggest to create HP recovery USB using HP Recovery Manager just after initial setup of your laptop

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Your laptop came with Windows 8 64 bit from factory

Have you successfully upgraded and activated to Windows 10 Home previously? If so, you can clean install Windows 10 Home using this tutorial by creating bootable installation USB using Microsoft windows media creation tool:

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Alternatively if you've not upgraded, you can do a clean install of Windows 8.1 64 bit on your Windows 8 laptop using Microsoft windows media creation tool by creating UEFI bootable installation USB, follow this: -windows-8-windows-8-1-iso-download-create.html

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I recently encountered some issues with my disk containing the recovery partition. So, I ordered a new disk. Next, I want to transfer my recovery partition from the old drive to the new one or another SSD I already have on my laptop. How do I do it? I also have a recovery media I created using the Recovery Manager if that is any help.

In any event, according to the driver page for your model, your PC is supported by the HP cloud recovery client utility where you can make a bootable USB recovery drive to reinstall the original software configuration. It would work just like the recovery partition, the only difference is you have to boot from it.

So, I installed the aforementioned new SSD I bought. When I tried to install Windows using the media recovery tool I created, the restoration failed. The failure message was- "FAILED to create ESP/MSR" and return code [-2147024809]. How do I tackle this?

When I searched on the WD community portal, they said internal SSDs do not ship preformatted. So maybe after formatting it correctly, Windows installation might succeed. So, how do I format the SSD to use it?

Boot from it, and when you get to the screen that asks 'Where do you want to install Windows, delete all partitions on the drive (if more than one exists), leaving just one partition of unallocated space, and then format the partition.

The hidden recovery partition on your HP computer lets you restore your business machine back to its factory default condition. The recovery program resides on its own partition, so it is accessible even if Windows 7 is corrupt and unable to boot. Although performing a system recovery will erase your primary disk, you'll have the option to back up your files during the recovery process and quickly place the computer back into service.

Turn off the HP computer and disconnect non-essential cables and devices such as printers, fax machines and flash drives. Remove any media from internal drives, such as card readers and optical drives. Be sure to keep your keyboard, mouse, power cord and monitor connected.

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I have an hp pavilion 17 power laptop with windows 10 home pre-installed. Today when I was creating an extra partition for Ubuntu and when I looked at the disk management window I was surprised because it had 4 recovery partitions instead of only one which is showed in the file explorer.

In fact, the recovery D partition is much smaller than average partitions and if you store files to it or a backup or restore program uses this recovery D partition to store files, the partition could become full quickly. So, never store files on this kind of partition and the only files on it should be related to system recovery.

This method is useful only if there is unallocated space adjacent to the D partition and the partition is of NTFS file system. If all the requirements are satisfied, you can proceed to the following steps.

When using Disk Management, the partition can be extended only when there is a piece of unallocated space adjacent to it and the partition itself is NTFS. In this case, many users are seeking a better alternative without these limits.

There are several situations that you need to restore HP Recovery Partition in Windows 7/8/10/XP/Vista. In the first place, you delete the partition accidentally or by mistake. Second, you backed up the Recovery Partition to another storage device and delete it on purpose so that you can allocate that extra space to system drive. Third, the hard drive is failing and you cannot access to the Recovery Partition. Restoring HP recovery drive to new hard drive helps you get Windows back to life.

AOMEI Backupper Standard is free and dedicated backup solution that designed for Windows-based PCs. It will help you backup HP Recovery Partition even the hidden partition and restore it to MBR/GPT disk later. No matter which storage you choose as backup location, you can free restore HP Recovery Partition if the need ever arises.

Step 2. By default, AOMEI Backupper will detect the backup automatically. If it fails to detect the image or you stored the backup image on NAS/Network, click Path to navigate.

Freely restore HP Recovery Partition is not as complex as you think. In any case, backup is vital part of restoring. Therefore, creating regular backup for your HP is an excellent method of protecting it. AOMEI Backupper Standard just has all functions you may need. For example, you can use it automatically backup PC to external hard drive.

AOMEI Backupper Professional is the advanced version of the Standard that includes more advanced features, such as command line backup & restore and Universal Restore etc. The backup scheme will help you better manage backup storage like auto delete old backups in Windows. Download and enjoy it.

Marek, My 750Gb drive erases the partition in error. Use the Clean / all command and my two partitions were deleted, please tell me what I can do or which command to use to recover the 2 parts, thanks for your answer. Greetings from Peru. Yerko

Hi ,

I have merged the D drive with other drive and created a new partition(E) using third party tool. Now i want to recover my windows to an initial state,but OneKey Recovery System (Recovery partition) is not working in my Lenovo laptop. Please help me.

Should i need to change the TYPE value of this partition ??

Hi rahul,

im an electronics technician,im as lost with this stuff as any one else,i had to ask the same questions,except my systems are older and more well known,just keep going round the forums ,dont act on the info to quick,wait until the information begins to become similar,so that the eroneous stuff can be discounted ,remember the internet is FULL of experts,when the same repair proceedure crops up,that will most likely be the answer.

Just what I was looking for to the point step by step instructions. Was able to recover my recovery partition and move to new drive. Not sure why I was not able to clone the drive but your article worked for me and now I have what I had before the problems started thanks.

I am trying to unhide my reserve partition in Windows 8. I am going to move it to my C: because updates are not able to install because of lack of space (so im told). I was informed if i was not going to use Bitlocker i would not need a reserve and could thus move the files to my C:, Boot files and all. I am having trouble unhiding it as i have said. I get this information:

What windows version are you using? Is the DiskPart syntax correct? There may be some changes in other Windows versions. This blog was written for the Windows Vista OS. Unfortunately I am not able to test it on other system at the moment so I suggest you try the Microsoft community forum ( )

I have an external drive that is showing a 200MB EFI Hidden Partition and a 300GB FAT32 Partiton in Disk Manager in Windows. I cannot assign drive letters to either of these partitions, the options are greyed out.

If I go into DISKPART it only shows me the 200MB EFI Partition, but I need to be able to see the second partition of 300GB again as it has a lot of important files on it. Is there any way to make this second partition visible again to be able to assign a drive letter to it and access the information on it?

I degraded my windows 10 to windows7 and came to know that my healthy recovery partition,oem,efi were gone after installing windows 10 in preinstalled windows 7,though i lost them i can see their sizes available free in disk management naming,basic disk(oem,efi,healthy recovery)of sizes 260mb,260mb,15.53gb,so how to restore them with data given default by manfacturer it can help me in restoring orginal factory settings if my os crashed without need of carrying recovery media dvds with me.

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