Restoring Backup partition

maddy_in65

maddy_in65

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I have 2 years old Samsung laptop and recently its HDD was crashed. I replaced crashed HDD with new HDD.
I took backup on external HDD when I bought it. I want to restore backup on New HDD. I connected external HDD and tried to boot into recovery by pressing F4 but I didn't get any option for recovery.
Is there any way to restore backup partition stored on external partition. TIA.
 
Criminal said:
windows7?
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So if you used windows 7 to create the externall HDD back up, then at the time of making the back up windows would have asked you if you want to format the drive and make it bootable, did you do that ?

If you used the samsung app , the same question wouldhave been asked.

basically if your bios is not able to detect that disc as a bootable disc then you cant directly use the restore partition in it.

I am sharing some links on how to use a external partition below, take a look at these

Also do you by any chance have the installation discs for the laptop ? if yes then its much easier to just do a clean install..

http://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/clone-recovery-partition-to-external-hdd.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1804691/recovery-partition-install-windows-hard-drive.html

http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/

a last option
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/recover-hard-disk-partition.html
 
Criminal said:
windows7?
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Laptop had windows 8 per-installed. During initial usage days i took backup of recovery partition on external HDD. External HDD has other partition as well. When I plug it to laptop, I didnt detect HDD, I also checked BIOS settings. Now laptop is out of warranty, I spoke with samsung customer care and they informed me that I cant transfer windows to another HDD.
 
maddy_in65 said:
Laptop had windows 8 per-installed. During initial usage days i took backup of recovery partition on external HDD.
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I am not sure how you can make use of the "backup of recovery partition."

In general, if you have the recovery file (it's single compressed, disk-mountable file) then all you need to do is boot the system in Recovery Environment (Win RE). RE allows you to locate the recovery files (or maybe partitions - I am not sure).

You'll need to download Windows Rescue Disk, if you don't have it already.

maddy_in65 said:
Backup was made using inbuilt app
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If it was some non-Microsoft app then you'll need to find the very same app to get back your stuff. If it was made using Windows' in-built Backup/Recovery tool then all you need is rescue disk for Win8 and your recovery file.
 
Criminal said:
I am not sure how you can make use of the "backup of recovery partition."

In general, if you have the recovery file (it's single compressed, disk-mountable file) then all you need to do is boot the system in Recovery Environment (Win RE). RE allows you to locate the recovery files (or maybe partitions - I am not sure).

You'll need to download Windows Rescue Disk, if you don't have it already.


If it was some non-Microsoft app then you'll need to find the very same app to get back your stuff. If it was made using Windows' in-built Backup/Recovery tool then all you need is rescue disk for Win8 and your recovery file.
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I dont have recovery disk for Win8 and backup was not mountable ISO. It looks like i need to purchase windows for installation.
 
depending on how old you're machine is there is a chance that the key is stored in the bios which contains a hash that tells the Windows 8 installer that it is licensed for a specific version of Windows 8 (Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro). If you install (or reinstall) that licensed version, it simply "activates" because the hardware is activated for that version of Windows. If you install a version of Windows 8 that the hardware isn't licensed for, it won't activate automatically and you'll have to put in a product key."

now there are a couple of things you still try

1) download samsung oem win 8 os from a torrent

2) run the installation and see if key is taken from bios

3) use this software to pick up key from u r back up on a external HDD

https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
 
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maddy_in65 said:
I dont have recovery disk for Win8 and backup was not mountable ISO. It looks like i need to purchase windows for installation.
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It's called Rescue Disk and it should be available on MS site free of cost. Its sole purpose is to let user boot into their system and perform recovery/maintenance.

"Recovery Disk" is supposed to be with you - which you have it in the form of a back of recovery partition on an external HD.

If it's just the OS that you are missing, then yes buy a new copy.
 
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