Backup and restore F11

[weststman]

Good morning all;

I backed up my old harddrive using F11 backup and restore function to an external harddrive, I installed a new 1 TB hardrive in my desktop, however I cannot get F11 backup and restore to come on when rebooting pc, I have connected my backup drive via a USB connection and it is recognized by the PC>  how can i get  backup and restore to function so I can restore my backup docs .

Thank you all,

Carmine

[VH2000]

F11 usually activates a Recovery procedure on OEM-Computers. With that you loose all your data!
Is it possible that you use a 3rd party Backup&Recovery program on your old HDD where the backups are saved on a separate partition?
In your case the Recovery partition on the new HDD is different and should be less than 1 GB and is hidden.

So run diskmgmt.msc and make a screenshot together with the old HDD connected .

[weststman]

I did a backup and restore about 4 years ago using my original hardrive  and had no issues  now I replaced the drive completely and performed a complete f11 back up to an external drive   

[VH2000]

How did you get Win 8.1 to the new drive?

[weststman]

4 years ago I restored back to original drive.  Now I created a usb win 8 boot program and that loaded win 8 on my new hard drive  do I need to copy the recovery partition to my new hat drive if that’s possible 

[VH2000]

So run diskmgmt.msc and make a screenshot together with the old HDD connected .

Without that information nobody will be able to tell you that.

The recovery partition will not help at all as long as you don't know what kind of image you have in that partition. F11 initializes a recovery program. What is that program?

[itsmyname]

@weststman -- does the old disk-drive still function? 

Connect the backup drive, and the new disk-drive. 

Hint: "borrow" the data and power cables that usually connect to the CD/DVD, and connect the new disk-drive to those cables.

Boot from the old disk-drive, and use F11 to try to do a "restore" from the USB backup onto the "secondary" disk-drive.